skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search Results

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
"Darwin C R" in search-correspondent disabled_by_default
Darwin, C. R. in correspondent disabled_by_default
Baily, W. H. in correspondent disabled_by_default
Darwin, C. R. in author disabled_by_default
letter in document-type disabled_by_default
3 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

To William Hellier Baily   5 October 1848

Summary

Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Hellier Baily
Date:  5 Oct 1848
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1201

To Linnean Society, President and Council   [10 May 1869]

thumbnail

Summary

Referee report on paper by Richard Spruce on sacs in Melastoma [see 6690]. CD says RS’s suggestions that sacs are inherited is not supported and should be deleted.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Hellier Baily
Date:  [10 May 1869]
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6722

To Linnean Society, President and Council   10 May 1869

Summary

Recommends publication of Mrs Barber’s paper on a rare case of fertilisation of a plant by one kind of insect alone, with access of others prevented by a mechanical obstacle [Mary Elizabeth Barber, "On the fertilisation and dissemination of Duvernoia adhatodoides", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1869): 469–72].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Hellier Baily
Date:  10 May 1869
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London (SP.57)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6740
Document type
Author
Darwin, C. R.disabled_by_default
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
1848 (1)
1869 (2)