From Frederick Bond 26 June 1860
Summary
Hopes to make observations on moths pollinating clovers.
| Author: | Frederick Bond |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 June 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76 (ser. 2): 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2847 |
From Frederick Bond [16? June 1860]
Summary
Observations on moths visiting flowers.
| Author: | Frederick Bond |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16? June 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 76 (ser. 2): 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2837 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 [February 1861]
Summary
Asa Gray’s pamphlet.
Ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 [Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3065 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 June [1860]
Summary
Has reread JDH’s paper ["On the functions of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 June [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 68 (EH 88206051) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1571 |
To Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [20 June 1860]
Summary
Is it physically possible for moths to eat the pollen of Mercurialis? Believes moths may visit the smaller clovers to suck the nectar.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer |
| Date: | [20 June 1860] |
| Classmark: | Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer, 30 June 1860, p. 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2848 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1860] , was intended for publication in the Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer , of which Stainton was editor. The published version is preceded by the heading: ‘Do the Tineina or other small moths suck Flowers, and if so what Flowers? —’ Dated by the relationship to the letter to H. T. Stainton, 20 June [1860] . This information was probably in the section of the letter from Frederick Bond, [ …
To J.-B. P. Guépin 14 November 1861
Summary
Has read about JPG’s article on the fertilisation of orchids in Annales de la Societé Linnéenne d’Angers [1853], but has been unable to secure a copy. Seeks information about the role of bees in distributing pollen masses and about the varieties of orchids in Angers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean-Baptiste Pierre Guépin |
| Date: | 14 Nov 1861 |
| Classmark: | Archives Départmentales de Maine-et-Loire (24 J 1, pièce no. 32) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3318F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Frederick Bond is cited in Orchids , pp. 35–6, as having sent CD a large number of moths and butterflies with orchid pollinia attached to their proboscises. Virtually all the pollinia came from a single species, Orchis pyramidalis. See also Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 June [1860] …
Document type
| letter | (6) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bond, Frederick | (2) |
Addressee
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bond, Frederick | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer | (1) |
| Guépin, J.-B. P. | (1) |
