To George Bentham 8 December 1876
Summary
Asks GB to send him flowers of the two forms of Boronia pinnata, as he is republishing his papers on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers].
Sends copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 8 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 717) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10706 |
To George Bentham 12 December 1876
Summary
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 12 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 720) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10714 |
To George Bentham 12 July 1877
Summary
Thanks GB for corrections to chapter on cleistogamic flowers [Forms of flowers].
Asks for his opinion on "bloom"-producing plants in different climates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 12 July 1877 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–84, GEB/1/3: f. 721) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11049 |
To George Bentham 10 August [1878]
Summary
GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 10 Aug [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 718) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11649 |
To George Bentham 16 February 1880
Summary
CD pleased to be of use to GB. He remembers his own work on orchids with pleasure. Thinks GB will be able to improve CD’s terminology for orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830-1884, GEB/1/3: f. 722) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12485 |
To George Bentham 27 December 1880
Summary
Asks GB to sign certificate for Francis Darwin [candidate for Royal Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 27 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 723) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12942 |
To George Bentham 27 January [1858]
Summary
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 27 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13778 |
To George Bentham 26 November [1856]
Summary
Asks GB for help in clearing up his problems about Leguminosae, in connection with his "wild bit of speculation on the crossing of plants" [see Natural selection, p. 71].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 26 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 684) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2003 |
To George Bentham 30 November [1856]
Summary
Thanks GB for information on Leguminosae, especially about those with apetalous flowers and almost without anthers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 30 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 685) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2005 |
To George Bentham 3 December [1856]
Summary
Thanks GB for information on apetalous flowers. "The whole order [Leguminosae] will remain my detestable enemies."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 3 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 687) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2010 |
To George Bentham 1 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.
Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.
Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 1 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2177 |
To George Bentham 15 December [1857]
Summary
For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 15 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2184 |
To George Bentham 18 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 18 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2189 |
To George Bentham 15 October [1858]
Summary
At Hooker’s request, sends his copy of Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)], "shamefully scribbled over".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 15 Oct [1858] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 686) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2342 |
To George Bentham 17 June [1861]
Summary
Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 17 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3186 |
To George Bentham 22 June [1861]
Summary
Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].
Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 22 June [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3193 |
To George Bentham 9 November [1861]
Summary
Thanks GB for arranging for his paper ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63] and for his photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 9 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 693) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3314 |
To George Bentham 24 November [1861]
Summary
Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 24 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 688 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3328 |
To George Bentham 26 November [1861]
Summary
Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 26 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 689) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3330 |
To George Bentham 30 November [1861]
Summary
Thanks GB for valuable letter [3331].
Will follow his suggestion about violets.
Discusses differences between Thymus and Primula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 30 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 691) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3335 |