To J. P. M. Weale 22 February [1867]
Summary
Discusses JPMW’s paper on Bonatea [see 5411].
Mentions Robert Brown’s views on pollen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.326) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5409 |
To J. P. M. Weale 27 February [1867]
Summary
Encloses his queries about expression which he asks JPMW to forward to trustworthy observers who associate with Hottentots and Kaffirs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 27 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5422 |
To J. P. M. Weale 27 August [1867]
Summary
CD finds the case of Muraltia with irritable stamens curious.
Thanks JPMW for his help with expression queries and would be grateful for any more information. Believes the action of the so-called "grief muscles" is a result of combined action of two muscles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5617 |
To J. P. M. Weale 9 December [1867]
Summary
Has had no less than seven grasses germinate from locust dung sent by JPMW.
JPMW’s paper on Bonatea is being printed by Linnean Society. [See J. P. M. Weale, "Structure and fertilisation of the genus Bonatea", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 470–6.]
Refers to Lyell’s new edition of Principles [10th ed., 2 vols. (1867–8)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5714 |
From James Philip Mansel Weale 9 January 1867
Summary
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A113–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5355 |
From J. P. M. Weale 7 July 1867
Summary
Has distributed CD’s questions on expression. Observations on the natives.
Floral structure encouraging cross-pollination in Polygala.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5581 |
From J. P. M. Weale [10 December 1867]
Summary
On expression among Kaffirs.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10 Dec 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5722 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Weale, J. P. M. | (3) |
| Weale, J. P. M. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
