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From W. E. Darwin 18 June [1864]
Summary
Doesn't think will be able to find Buckthorn. Sends reference from Revue de Deux Mondes. Is settled at the Bank.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4538F |
From W. E. Darwin 14 April [1864]
Summary
Observations on [length of style and length of filament and stigmas of] Pulmonaria.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: A68–74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4462 |
From William Erasmus Darwin [15 March 1864]
Summary
Has drawn all three forms of primroses CD sent "with same result". Has found no pink variety with middle style.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 85, 173–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4416 |
From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [17 May 1864]
Summary
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [17 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4498F |
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- … 1864] , and by the references to the hot weather and the visit from Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood (see nn. 3 and 4, below). CD had been interested in observing the dimorphic Menyanthes trifoliata (buckbean or marsh trefoil); in 1862, he acquired the aquatic plant from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, but its seeds never germinated (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864]
Summary
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [18 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4442 |
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- … 1864] . No recent reference to Rhamnus , the buckthorn, has been found in CD’s correspondence. In 1861, CD asked Joseph Dalton Hooker where he could purchase a specimen after Asa Gray wrote that a North American species ( Rhamnus lanceolatus ) was dimorphic (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 , and second letter to J. D. …
From Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin [20 May 1864]
Summary
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [20 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: A7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3366 |
Document type
| letter | (6) |
Author
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, W. E. | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
