From William Ogle [23–4 September 1875]
Summary
Asks whether CD has observed that bees limit their visits to a single kind of flower on each journey from the hive, as Aristotle has said they do. What advantage would such a limitation be to the insects?
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23–4 Sept 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10167 |
From William Ogle 23 July 1876
Summary
Recounts his observations on the different ways bees perforate flowers of white and blue varieties of monkshood. [See Cross and self-fertilisation, p 428.]
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 164–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10565 |
From William Ogle 21 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Suggests plant hairs protect them from insects either mechanically or by stinging.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11109 |
From William Ogle 17 January 1882
Summary
Sends a translation of Aristotle’s De partibus animalium and imagines that if the old teleologist were alive CD would convince him of his errors.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13621 |
From William Ogle 12 April 1882
Summary
A friend once "caught" an oyster while fishing, which confirms CD’s note ["On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Collected papers 2: 276–8].
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13767 |
From William Ogle 2 September 1868
Summary
Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6346 |
From William Ogle [after 7 July 1869]
Summary
WO very gratified by CD’s complimentary remarks on his Salvia article.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 July 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6821 |
From William Ogle [before 9 November 1870]
Summary
Sends CD a paper dealing in part with animal pigmentation [Med.-Chir. Trans. 2d ser. 411 [check vol no!?] (1870): 263–90]. Discusses relationship between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 9 Nov 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7361 |
From William Ogle [10–17 November 1870]
Summary
Relates instances of rabbits suffering from a condition which affects only the patches of white on their fur.
Will make observations on the platysma for CD.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10–17 Nov 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7365 |
From William Ogle [after 17 December 1870]
Summary
Would be pleased to be visited by CD.
J. Wyman will make observations on black pigs and white pigs in Florida.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 17 Dec 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7397 |
From William Ogle 25 February [1871]
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
He believes he has observed a predominance of the right side over the left in monkeys and man. If so, this is another support of their relatedness.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7514 |
From William Ogle [after 5 May 1873]
Summary
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller’s book on fertilisation [Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 May 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8705 |