To George Bentham 22 April 1868
Summary
Is not surprised that GB cannot digest Pangenesis, but it has been an immense relief to CD in tying together large classes of facts.
Sends names of men writing on crossing of plants. Criticises some French observations. Praises Hildebrand and Federico Delpino.
Sends pamphlets.
CD is experimenting on a large scale on difference in plants raised from self-fertilised and crossed seeds.
F. Hildebrand has produced a graft-hybrid which seems to lend important support to Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 22 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 703–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6138 |
To George Bentham 1 May [1868]
Summary
Sends Ernst Haeckel’s [Generelle] Morphologie [1866] and C. K. Sprengel’s book [Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur (1793)].
A. Gaudry and L. Rütimeyer have declared in favour of CD’s views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 1 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 702) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6154 |
To George Bentham 23 June 1868
Summary
Expresses thanks and pleasure at what GB has said about his book [Variation] in GB’s [Presidential] Address [to the Linnean Society, 1868, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1868): lvii–c]. "What you say about Pangenesis quite satisfies me".
CD discussed "bud-variation" to show that it was an error to believe all variability is due to sexual generation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 23 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 677) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6258 |
From George Bentham [before 22 April 1868]
Summary
Has studied Variation with interest.
Cannot quite follow CD on reversion and Pangenesis,
but is amazed at CD’s observations and method.
Comments on varieties of asses, kidney beans, and artichokes.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6134 |
From George Bentham 30 April 1868
Summary
Discusses Hildebrand
and criticises Delpino.
Asks to borrow C. K. Sprengel’s Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur [1793].
Botanists have no explanation of the case of Viola odorata and other showy flowers being sterile while inconspicuous ones bear seed.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6147 |
From George Bentham [after 29 September 1868]
Summary
Asks CD to sign enclosed certificate first, as he does not know T. H. Farrer personally. [On top part of first two pages of a letter to Hooker from H. C. Rothery about Farrer’s nomination for Linnean Society]
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 29 Sept 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6405 |
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