From George Bentham 28 December 1880
Summary
Pleased to sign certificate for Francis Darwin.
Has never underrated importance of [plant] physiological studies, especially when carried out as FD has been doing.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12947 |
To George Bentham 16 February 1880
Summary
CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12485 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To George Bentham 16 February 1880 …
- … London (see letter from George Bentham, 15 February 1880 and n. 1). Bentham was preparing …
- … to orchid morphology (see letter from George Bentham, 15 February 1880 and nn. 2, 4, …
- … and 5). See letter from George Bentham, 15 February 1880 and n. 5. In Living Cirripedia ( …
- … Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Feb 1880 George …
From George Bentham 15 February 1880
Summary
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12482 |
To George Bentham 27 December 1880
Summary
Asks GB to sign certificate for Francis Darwin [candidate for Royal Society].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 27 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 723) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12942 |
To Fritz Müller 4 January 1882
Summary
On F. M. Balfour.
Effects of ammonium carbonate on roots.
FM’s Pontederia case is very curious.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10: 58) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13599 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1880–1. A treatise on comparative embryology . 2 vols. London: Macmillan & Co. Bentham, George. …
- … George Bentham in 1860 (see Stearn 1956 ). Monocotyledones was the heading of the final part of Genera plantarum ( Bentham and Hooker 1862–83 , 3 (2): 448). The Orchideae (a synonym of Orchidaceae, orchids) was a large section completed by Bentham in August 1880, …
From J. D. Hooker 12 June 1881
Summary
Has struggled for months with complexity of structure and distribution of palms for Genera plantarum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 150–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13201 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bentham, George and Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1862–83. Genera plantarum. Ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus servata definita. 3 vols. in 7. London: A. Black [and others]. Movement in plants : The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
From Fritz Müller 31 March 1882
Summary
Apologises for not having answered CD’s letters of 19 December [13564] and 4 January [13599] sooner.
Gives the results of his crossing experiments with Pontederia (Eichhornia) crassipes and P. azurea. Has also begun experiments on Heteranthera reniformis.
Thanks CD for sending three parts of the first volume of Bentham and Hooker’s Genera plantarum.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1882 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 424–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13750A |
To J. D. Hooker 15 June 1881
Summary
CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 513–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13207 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Bentham in 1860 (see Stearn 1956 ). Hooker was working on palms (Palmae, a synonym of Arecaceae). Monocotyledones was the heading of the final part of Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, 3 (2): 448). The Orchideae (a synonym of Orchidaceae, orchids) was a large section completed by Bentham in August 1880, …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 10 June 1879
Summary
Sleep in Crotalaria.
Report of John Ball’s lecture to Geographical Society: Alpine flora is direct descendant of Palaeozoic flora ["On the origin of the flora of the European Alps", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography 1: 564–88].
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.10: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12099 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bentham, George and Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1862–83. Genera plantarum. Ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis Kewensibus servata definita. 3 vols. in 7. London: A. Black [and others]. Movement in plants : The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. …
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Bentham, George | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
