To George Bentham 3 February [1862]
Summary
Asks GB’s help to clear up discrepancies between his and John Lindley’s observations on pollination of Melastomataceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 3 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 694–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3437 |
To George Bentham 30 March [1862]
Summary
Will try to come to Linnean Society to read his paper, but has been "extra headachy". Fears his paper ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70] will not be worth Lindley’s attendance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 30 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 699) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3488 |
To George Bentham 13 October [1862]
Summary
Asks for reference to GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s book ["Historical notes on the introduction of various plants into the agriculture and horticulture of Tuscany: a summary of a work entitled Cenni storici sulla introduzione di varie piante nell agricultura ed orticultura Toscana by Dr Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, Florence, 1850", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 9 (1855): 133–81]. [See Variation, 1st ed., 1: 306 n.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 715) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3760 |