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 |
From A. S. Wilson 21 February 1878
Summary
On crossing Aegilops.
Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11370 |
From A. S. Wilson 28 February 1878
Summary
Fertilisation of wheat.
Would like to borrow Wilhelm Rimpau’s papers.
Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11381 |
From A. S. Wilson 14 March 1878
Summary
On germination of wheat.
Can supply Drosera if CD wants some.
Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11423 |
From A. S. Wilson 6 August 1878
Summary
Observations on dimorphic and trimorphic plants of Scotland.
On fertilisation of Scrophularia nodosa.
Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: B19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11641 |
From A. S. Wilson 27 February 1879
Summary
Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].
Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11906 |
From A. S. Wilson 5 January 1880
Summary
Results of his second year of experiments with Russian wheat varieties will be published in Gardeners’ Chronicle [n.s. 13 (1880): 108, 172–3].
Observations on germination of wheat.
Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12404 |
From A. S. Wilson 17 February 1880
Summary
On clubroot fungus of cultivated Cruciferae.
Will give Russian wheat varieties another trial.
Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12490 |
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