From Federico Delpino 11 September 1875
Summary
Thanks for Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874], which confirms some of his observations,
and for Insectivorous plants, which he praises.
Suggests that a book integrating knowledge of plant–animal interactions be written by a Darwinist.
Defines biology as the science of external interactions.
German reception is far more positive than Italian.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10155 |
To R. F. Cooke 1 September [1875]
Summary
Thanks RC for his kind note. It was only Climbing plants for which he wanted the proofs to have wide margins. Wishes he understood more about printing. It would be a great convenience to authors if exterior margins of proofs were broad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 1 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 328–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10147 |
Delpino, Federico. 1868–75. Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogamia nel regno vegetale. 2 parts. Milan: Giuseppe Bernardoni. [Originally published in Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali Milano 11 (1868): 265–352; 12 (1869): 179–233; 13 (1870): 167–205; 17 (1874): 266–407.]
From Fritz Müller 19 October 1877
Summary
Doubts that glands of calyx of cleistogamic Malpighiaceae serve as protection.
Some species of Solanum bear long- and short-styled flowers on same plant.
Changing colours of some flowers may show insects the proper moment for fertilisation.
Doubts that the style of Pontederia cordata changes length.
Sexual difference in wings of some butterflies due to development in male of scales that emit odours to excite female.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 363–4; Nature, 29 November 1877, pp. 78–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11191 |
To Federico Delpino 1 May 1873
Summary
Asks whether, in Italy, varieties of Lathyrus odoratus, Pisum sativum, and Phaseolus multiflorus must be grown separately to come true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 1 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8892 |
From Hermann Müller 12 May 1873
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8909 |
To W. H. Newberry 24 March 1882
Summary
Mechanism of flowers of Maranta has already been described by F. H. G. Hildebrand and Federico Delpino.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henshaw Newberry |
Date: | 24 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13737 |
From Federico Delpino 22 August 1869
Summary
Declares himself CD’s defender; but he is a "teleologist".
Sends CD three more papers.
His research confirms his faith and belief in variability of species.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6866 |
From Federico Delpino 18 April 1875
Summary
Looking forward to publication of Insectivorous plants, which he will review.
Paul Mantegazza has criticised FD on insectivorous plants
and CD on sexual selection; FD maintains dichogamy in plants supports sexual selection.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9939 |
To Federico Delpino 25 June [1873]
Summary
Discusses role of insects in crossing varieties of Lathyrus odoratus and other species.
Comments on Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)],
and Anton Kerner ["Die Schutzmittel des Pollens", Ber. Naturwiss. Med. Ver. Innsbruck, 3 (1873): 100–68].
Admires FD’s work on anemophilous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 25 June [1873] |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8951 |
From Federico Delpino 7 January 1871
Summary
Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.
Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.
Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7430 |
From T. H. Farrer 9 October 1869
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6929 |
To Francis Darwin 17 July [1878]
Summary
Discusses sleep movements of Porlieria.
Has read an abstract of Julius Wiesner on heliotropism and geotropism ["Die heliotropischen Erscheinungen im Pflanzenreiche", Anz. Kais. Akad. Wiss. Wien 15 (1878): 137–40] which seems important but is puzzling.
Gives details of his observations on climbing plants with reference to comments by Julius Sachs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 17 July [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11615 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Federico Delpino, 28 February 1870 ; Delpino 1870 ). Delpino discussed Thalia dealbata (powdery alligator-flag) in Delpino 1870 , pp. 135–7. For CD’s observations on the sensitivity of the pistil in T. dealbata , see the letter to Francis Darwin , 7 [July 1878] , the letters to G. H. Darwin, 10 [July 1878] and 11 [ …
From Fritz Müller 18 October 1869
Summary
Describes experiments to test the fertility of Abutilon, which appears self-sterile,
and briefly mentions dichogamy in Eschscholzia.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B178, Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6943 |
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 W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 16 July 1878
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11612 |
From J. T. Moggridge 12 December 1869
Summary
Sends seeds of Lathyrus and suggests an advantage of climbing plants is to shed their seeds in places secure from animals.
Contrary to F. Delpino, in JTM’s experience Ophrys aranifera is not sterile. However, seed germination is poor.
In a densely overgrown plot Convolvulus sabatius, not normally a twiner, becomes one.
Continues his extensive study on variability in Arbutus, and speculates on selection in fruit shape.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7027 |
To Gaston de Saporta 24 December 1877
Summary
Such honours as proposal for election to Institut affect CD very little.
GdeS’s idea that dicotyledonous plants were not developed until sucking insects evolved is a splendid one. The suggestion that fertilisation of the surviving members of the most ancient dicotyledons should be studied is a good one. CD hopes GdeS will keep it in mind.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Date: | 24 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11287 |
From Federico Delpino 8 April 1875
Summary
Sends last part of his book [Ulteriori observazioni sulla dicogamia (1868–74)] [osservazioni!?] and describes contents.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9919 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 April [1875]
Summary
CD and others now think it advisable to go further than a petition on vivisection, and a bill has been drafted.
F. Delpino’s pamphlet on pitchers ["Sulle pianti a bicchieri", Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 3 (1871): 174–6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Apr [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 384–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9927 |
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- … 11 April 1875] ). CD refers to John Scott Burdon Sanderson , Thomas Henry Huxley , John Simon , James Paget , and Michael Foster . Edward Henry Stanley , the earl of Derby, was foreign secretary; Richard Assheton Cross was home secretary (see letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 April [1875] ). Hooker was president of the Royal Society of London . A lightly annotated copy of Federico Delpino’ …
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