To ? 25 [April 1860?]
Summary
August Laugel has sent him a copy of his review [of Origin] in Revue des Deux-Mondes [26 (1860): 644–71].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 25 [Apr 1860?] |
| Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (July 1977) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2768 |
To Asa Gray 25 April [1860]
Summary
Origin reviews. Is annoyed at Richard Owen’s malignity [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2767 |
To M. T. Masters 25 April [1860]
Summary
Glad to hear of MTM’s papers [? "On a peloria and semidouble flower of Ophrys aranifera, Huds.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 207–11 and "Observations on the morphology and anatomy of the genus Restio, Linn.", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 211–55].
CD doubts the value, for origin of species, of parallels between peloria in "distinct groups".
Gärtner proved the stigma can select its own pollen from a mixture of foreign pollens. But much evidence shows varieties of same species are prepotent over a plant’s own pollen.
MTM’s father [William] believes that variation goes on for a long time once it has commenced.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School Archives (SR/Darwin box 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4818 |
| letter | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
