To A. S. Wilson 23 February 1878
Summary
Thanks for specimen of Aegilops flour.
Comments on ASW’s papers.
Cites paper by Wilhelm Rimpau on self- and cross-fertilisation in wheat ["Die Züchtung neuer Getreide-Varietäten", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 361 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11372 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 20 February 1878]
Summary
Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.4: 432 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11220 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 19 and 21 February [1878]
Summary
Letter from Gaston de Saporta.
Germination of onion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 19 and 21 Feb [1878] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 112–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11367 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [ c. 20 February 1878] . CD discussed the apheliotropic (growing away from sunlight) movement of the peduncle, or flower stem, of Cyclamen persicum (florist’s cyclamen) in Movement in plants , pp. 433–4. CD accidentally transposed this letter with his letter to D. F. Nevill of 19 and 21 February [1878] . Joseph Dalton Hooker evidently asked George Henslow …
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| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Wilson, A. S. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Wilson, A. S. | (1) |
