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To Federico Delpino 22 November 1871
Summary
Will send FD’s work [Studi sopra un lignaggio anemofilo delle composte (1871)] to Nature for review.
CD’s health has been poor all summer – he doubts that he will ever "have the strength to publish on Variability under a state of Nature".
Hopes to publish on cross- and self-fertilisation next summer.
Encloses his photo and asks for FD’s.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8082 |
From Federico Delpino 20 May 1870
Summary
Responds to CD’s request for Canna seeds.
Studying dichogamy in Lotus. Describes mechanism that pumps pollen on to a visiting bee. Corrects Axell on Lotus.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7196 |
From Federico Delpino 23 April 1878
Summary
Has reviewed Forms of flowers in Revista Botanica [(1877): 84–106].
CD’s treatment by the French Academy.
Hypothesises that the mollusc-like mantle of Balanus originates from a form of grafting.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Apr 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11482 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Delpino, Federico | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
