To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1863]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".
John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.
Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4207 |
From G. H. K. Thwaites 8 June 1863
Summary
Dimorphism in Linum.
Situation in some of the lower Algae is analogous to that in phaenogams. In some, conjugation occurs between separate filaments, in others between cells of same filament.
Forwards a letter from S. O. Glenie enclosing specimens of Cassia fistula which show the two forms of the anthers.
| Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 121–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4208 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
