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From A. W. Bennett   17 December 1875

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Is delighted CD plans to call on him.

Wants to discuss botanical work.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Dec 1875
Classmark:  DAR 160: 144
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10302

From A. W. Bennett   7 December 1876

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Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.

Reports instances of cross-fertilisation in maize,

and succession of forms of flowers on Isle of Wight.

Asks CD’s suggestions for his second edition of Julius von Sachs’s Text-book of botany.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Dec 1876
Classmark:  DAR 160: 145
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10703

From Alfred William Bennett   22 April 1869

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Sends paper on mechanisms of cross-fertilisation in flowers ["Note on Parnassia palustris", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 24–31].

Studying how fertilisation takes place without the aid of insects in winter varieties.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Apr 1869
Classmark:  DAR 160: 137
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6710

From A. W. Bennett   3 May 1869

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Sends CD some notes [missing] on the mode of fertilisation of winter-flowering plants, and outlines his conclusions regarding the different types of winter-flowerers and the means by which they are fertilised.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 May 1869
Classmark:  DAR 76: B176–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6724

From A. W. Bennett   22 November 1872

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Proposes establishing a quarterly journal for longer, illustrated articles of some popular appeal. Seeks CD’s support.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Nov 1872
Classmark:  DAR 160: 138
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8640

From A. W. Bennett   16 March 1873

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Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.

Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].

Other publication plans.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Mar 1873
Classmark:  DAR 160: 139
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8811

From A. W. Bennett   8 May 1873

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Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].

Publication plans.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 May 1873
Classmark:  DAR 160: 140
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8905

From A. W. Bennett   12 July 1873

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Believes some flowers fail to produce seed because of the access of too great a quantity of pollen. Asks for CD’s opinion and references.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 July 1873
Classmark:  DAR 160: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8976

From A. W. Bennett   21 September 1874

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Sends papers and references.

Reports his microscopic observations on Drosera and other plants.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Sept 1874
Classmark:  DAR 160: 142
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9648

From A. W. Bennett   12 March 1875

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Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.

Author:  Alfred William Bennett
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Mar 1875
Classmark:  DAR 160: 143
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9884
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