From J. T. Moggridge 15 July [1864]
Summary
Sends seeds of Trichonema and bulb and leaves of Romulea rollii, plus specimens showing two forms of Primula marginata.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4567 |
From J. T. Moggridge 19 July [1864]
Summary
Offers notes on Romulea rollii with sketch of a dissection.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A25a, A25b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4570 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 17 May [1865]
Summary
Sends fresh plants from France: Lythrum graefferi, Romulea.
Does CD know Pulmonaria is dimorphic?
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4835 |
From J. T. Moggridge 14 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants".
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.2: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4915 |
From J. T. Moggridge 27 December [1865]
Summary
Sends a tin full of Ophrys by his brother, who should take about 60 hours to reach Down.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4957 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 15 February [1866]
Summary
Is sending Ophrys plants marked as CD requested as wild or under cultivation. Discusses arrangements for a scheme planned for 1867 and his method for marking his Ophrys specimens.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR Pamphlet collection G368 (bound in part of Moggridge 1865–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5008A |
From J. T. Moggridge 10 May [1866]
Summary
Sends a box of orchids.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5084 |
From J. T. Moggridge 21 May [1866]
Summary
Sends plants from France.
J. B. E. Bornet of Antibes, working in G. A. Thuret’s garden, finds Cistus hybrids do not follow the old dictum of having the mother’s foliage and the father’s habit. Bornet is engaged in long-term study.
JTM seeks invitation to Down.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5096 |
From J. T. Moggridge 25 May [1866]
Summary
Accepts invitation for 23 June.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5101 |
From J. T. Moggridge 14 June [1866]
Summary
Will take earlier train to Down.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5121 |
From J. T. Moggridge 5 and 6 July [1866]
Summary
Sends onion and mint seeds.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 and 6 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5147 |
From J. T. Moggridge 3 August [1866]
Summary
Sends packet of Ononis columnae seed and references to the species.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A86–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5175 |
From J. T. Moggridge 9 November [1866]
Summary
At CD’s request he is looking into the gardeners’ custom of separating all sweetpea varieties in order to obtain pure seed.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5272 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 6 March [1867]
Summary
Observations on Ophrys plants and Thymus vulgaris. Encloses sketch of different forms of T. vulgaris [see Forms of flowers, p. 302].
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A90–1, DAR 111: B47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5433 |
From J. T. Moggridge 15 March [1867]
Summary
Sends several plants with abortive anthers or bad pollen.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5444 |
From J. T. Moggridge 22 April [1867]
Summary
Sends Orchis.
Is coming to London.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5511 |
From J. T. Moggridge 29 May [1867]
Summary
Wrote to J. B. E. Bornet on CD’s behalf, declining the offer of seeds of Draba. But now Bornet writes that he is sending seeds to CD anyway [see 5592].
Corrects his previous description of the fertilisation of Indigofera.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 157a: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5555A |
From J. T. Moggridge 16 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Although Thomas Meehan’s paper ["Variations in Epigaea repens", Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. (1868): 153–6] shows great variability in this genus, JTM sees a need to qualify the generalisation that there is as much variation in the wild as under domestication. He knows no evidence for a constant proportion between variability in the wild and under cultivation.
Observations on correlation between leaf size and exposure to sun and shade.
Has evidence for two varieties of Ophrys apifera in England, which live in mutually exclusive colonies.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6894 |
From J. T. Moggridge 18 September 1869
Summary
Leaflet variation at the tip of Lathyrus stems.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6899 |
From J. T. Moggridge 12 December 1869
Summary
Sends seeds of Lathyrus and suggests an advantage of climbing plants is to shed their seeds in places secure from animals.
Contrary to F. Delpino, in JTM’s experience Ophrys aranifera is not sterile. However, seed germination is poor.
In a densely overgrown plot Convolvulus sabatius, not normally a twiner, becomes one.
Continues his extensive study on variability in Arbutus, and speculates on selection in fruit shape.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7027 |