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To Adolf Ernst   16 January 1878

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Thanks AE for his book [Estudios sobre la flora y fauna de Venezuela (1877)].

Asks whether glaucous plants in Venezuela are more common in drier areas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Ernst
Date:  16 Jan 1878
Classmark:  State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8971)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11321

To Adolf Ernst   5 January 1880

Summary

Has read AE’s paper in Nature [21 (1880): 217] on Melochia, a new family of heterostyled plants, and suggests some crosses to be carried out to determine the fertility of illegitimate seedlings.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Ernst
Date:  5 Jan 1880
Classmark:  State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8972)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12402

To Adolf Ernst   4 April 1880

Summary

Thanks for interesting letter; is sure it would be worth while to test fertility of illegitimate offspring of heterostyled plants.

Would welcome any information on occurrence of bloom-covered leaves on dry plains.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Ernst
Date:  4 Apr 1880
Classmark:  State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8973)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12561

To Adolf Ernst   11 September 1880

Summary

Thanks for seeds of Cobaea;

was much interested in AE’s article ["On the fertilisation of Cobaea penduliflora", Nature 22 (1880): 148–9] opposing G. E. M. Bonnier’s view ["Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 6th ser. 8 (1879): 6–212].

Case of Lisianthus is an excellent one of structure and movement of parts adapted to cross-fertilisation.

Asks whether worm-castings are found in the area.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Ernst
Date:  11 Sept 1880
Classmark:  State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8974)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12711

To Adolf Ernst   3 April 1882

Summary

Edmond Perrier of Paris would be pleased to receive earthworms collected in Venezuela.

CD fears that he exaggerated the importance of worms in forming ledges on hillsides [see Earthworms, p. 278 ff.].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Ernst
Date:  3 Apr 1882
Classmark:  State Darwin Museum, Moscow (GDM KP OF 8975)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13755
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