To A. S. Wilson 23 February 1878
Summary
Thanks for specimen of Aegilops flour.
Comments on ASW’s papers.
Cites paper by Wilhelm Rimpau on self- and cross-fertilisation in wheat ["Die Züchtung neuer Getreide-Varietäten", Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 6
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 23 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 361 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11372 |
To A. S. Wilson 6 March 1878
Summary
Thanks for essays by ASW ["Experiments with turnip seeds", Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 13 (1876–9): 25–39, and a short notice, "Experiments in singling turnips"] and Aegilops seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 6 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 362 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11402 |
To A. S. Wilson 16 March [1878]
Summary
Thanks for second lot of Aegilops seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 16 Mar [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 363 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11427 |
To A. S. Wilson 24 April 1878
Summary
Sends specimens of Russian wheat variety kubanka, which after sowing for two years degenerates into a different variety, saxonka. Suggests that ASW conduct experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 24 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 364 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11483 |
To A. S. Wilson 29 April [1878]
Summary
Thanks for specimen.
Always was sceptical of James Buckman’s experiment; heard afterwards that cruel trick was played on him.
Glad ASW is willing to look into Russian wheat case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 29 Apr [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 365 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11489 |
To A. S. Wilson 9 August [1878]
Summary
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 9 Aug [1878] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11646 |
To A. S. Wilson 4 [June] 1879
Summary
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 4 [June] 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 366 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11820 |
To A. S. Wilson 5 March 1879
Summary
Discusses ASW’s discovery of error in Russian belief about wheat varieties. Suggests that he publish paper in Journal of Royal Agricultural Society. [Results actually published in Gard. Chron. n.s. 11 (1879): 622–4.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 5 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 367 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11917 |
To A. S. Wilson 30 December [1879]
Summary
Package of wheat varieties from Russia lost in transit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 30 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 368 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12377 |
To A. S. Wilson 8 January 1880
Summary
Glad ASW has solved puzzle of outer seeds.
Quite agrees about great improbability of sudden transformations.
Asks for copy of report from Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 8 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 369 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12411 |
To A. S. Wilson 13 February 1880
Summary
Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.
Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 370 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12478 |
To A. S. Wilson 20 February 1880
Summary
Speculates on origin of habit [of insects?] of laying eggs on plants of certain families.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 20 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 371 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12495 |
To A. S. Wilson 16 April 1881
Summary
Obliged for extract from Gardeners’ Chronicle about Russian wheat. "It is a capital instance of one var. gradually beating out another."
Cannot remember where he put G. Henslow’s note [on the cotyledon of grass embryos].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Date: | 16 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 372 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13121 |