To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
From John Lubbock 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."
JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3549 |
From George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 15 May 1862
Summary
Sends CD a quotation from Plato which anticipates the Origin.
Has been enjoying CD’s paper on dimorphism in the Journal of the Linnean Society ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. He has found similar structures [see Forms of flowers, pp. 116, 122].
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B79–80, DAR 171: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3550 |
From M. T. Masters [c. 15 May 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 15 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3551 |
From George Chichester Oxenden 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for the book [Orchids].
Found thousands of Ophrys aranifera plants.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3553 |
From George Bentham 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids]. CD has opened a new field for observation and a new unexpected track to explore phenomena that had before appeared "irreconcilable with ordinary opinion and method shown in the organic world".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3554 |
letter | (6) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |