To an editor 24 March [1863?]
Summary
Encloses a dialogue on species from a New Zealand newspaper [S. Butler’s First dialogue on evolution, from the Christchurch Press].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863?] |
Classmark: | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4058 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 March 1863]
Summary
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2027 |
To Daniel Oliver 24–5 March [1863]
Summary
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24–5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4059 |
To John Scott 24 March [1863]
Summary
Enthusiastic about JS’s work on Passiflora self-incompatibility.
CD quotes JS on rostellar pollen germination [in "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 77–8]. H. Crüger attributes it to ants’ carrying stigmatic secretion to pollen.
Homomorphic cowslip seedlings are, sadly, showing variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B72–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4060 |
To Alfred Newton 24 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for potatoes, which may be useful in crossing.
Germination of seeds in earth on partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4435 |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |