To Charles Lyell 12 July [1872]
Summary
Comments on enclosed discussion of S. American geology by Agassiz. Mentions elevation of Patagonia and glaciation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 July [1872] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.420) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8405 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1872]
Summary
Overjoyed at the way the newspapers have taken up JDH’s case. The memorial has done great good this way, whatever the wretched Government does. It is enough to make one a Tory. JDH has done a service to all men of science by showing governments that they cannot be trampled on.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 222–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8406 |
To ? 12 July [1872–4]
Summary
Has not strength or time to hunt for Herminium monorchis; has failed to make orchid seeds germinate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 12 July [1872-4] |
Classmark: | National Library of Russia (Collection of P. Waxell (F. 965): no 637) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8406F |
From John Denny 12 July 1872
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries. Duke of Cornwall Pelargonium is fertile with its own pollen. Has failed to produce hybrids from other varieties besides P. peltatum and P. elegans. Sends numbers of the Florist which contain an account of his mode of procedure ["On cross-breeding pelargoniums" Florist & Pomologist (1872): 10, 34, 50].
Reports a confirmation of his theory of the prepotence of the male parent.
Author: | John Denny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8407 |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Denny, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Denny, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |