From Federico Delpino 5 December 1871
Summary
Praise of CD. Acknowledges his indebtedness to CD for defining the subject of plant fecundation.
Expecting CD’s work on the effects of cross-fertilisation.
CD has put him in touch with George Bentham.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8098 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Bentham . See letter to Federico Delpino, 22 November 1871 and n. 3. See letter to …
- … Cross and self fertilisation ; see letter to Federico Delpino, 22 November 1871 . George …
- … letter, see Correspondence vol. 19, Appendix I. For a transcription of this letter in its original Italian, see Transcript. CD had sent a photograph of himself and requested one of Delpino in exchange (see letter to Federico Delpino, 22 November 1871 ). …
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … See letter from Federico Delpino, 15 November 1871 and n. 2. CD had received copies of …
- … letter to George Bentham, 1 May [1868] ). Bentham discussed Delpino’s classification of the Artemisiaceae in ‘Notes on the classification, history and geographical distribution of compositae’ ( Bentham 1873 , pp. 342–3). See letter from Federico Delpino, 15 November 1871 …
From Federico Delpino 15 November 1871
Summary
Sends paper on Artemesia.
Praise for Descent.
Has talked to St George Mivart about CD’s health.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8069 |
From Federico Delpino 18 June 1873
Summary
Sends information on Lathyrus odoratus, Phaseolus multiflorus and Pisum sativum.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 152–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8945 |
To John Lubbock [before 17 September 1874]
Summary
Sends MS intended some day for the Viola tricolor section of Cross and self-fertilisation [pp. 123–8] to be used by JL in his British wild flowers (1875).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [before 17 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 49645:107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9618 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter relates to Lubbock’s two-part article in Nature , 17 and 24 September 1874 (see n. 2, below). Federico Delpino had sent CD a copy of his ‘Studies in the anemophilous breeding of crosses in the group Artemisiaceae’ ( Delpino 1871 ); see Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Federico Delpino, …
From J. D. Hooker 15 April 1875
Summary
Approves vivisection memorial.
Lyon Playfair supports his request for Kew assistant.
Asks whether CD has botanical suggestions for Arctic expedition.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9932 |
To J. V. Carus 20 December 1876
Summary
Sends an omitted reference to an article by Dr Ascherson [Bot. Ztg. (1871): 444 et seq.] for Cross and self-fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 154–155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10730 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from J. V. Carus, 20 November 1876 . The reference to Paul Ascherson’s ‘ Federico Delpino’s Eintheilung der Pflanzen nach dem Mechanismus der dichogamischen Befruchtung und Bemerkungen über die Befruchtungs-Vorgänge bei Wasserpflanzen’ ( Federico Delpino’s classification of plants according to the mechanism of dichogamic fertilisation and remarks on the processes of fertilisation in water plants; Ascherson 1871 ) …
To Nature 13 November [1869]
Summary
Comments on A. W. Bennett’s letter [Nature 1 (1869): 58] on fertilisation of winter-flowering plants. CD used net, not a bell-glass to cover Lamium.
Refers to F. Delpino’s observations on fertilisation of grasses; CD is glad to say these observations are compatible with "the very general law that distinct individual plants must be occasionally crossed".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Nature 1 (1869): 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6987 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Nature , 8 November 1869. In both Bennett 1869 , and the letter from A. W. Bennett to Nature , 8 November 1869, Bennett only mentioned the pollen discharging from the anthers of Vinca major . In Cross and self fertilisation , p. 362, CD maintained that V. major was generally sterile when insects were not present. In his letter of 1 November 1869 , Federico Delpino discussed his work on grasses, and mentioned his intended publication ( Delpino 1871 ). …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [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’s paper ‘Sulle piante a bicchieri’ ( Delpino 1871 ) …
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Delpino, Federico | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Delpino, Federico | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Carus, J. V. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
