To John Hutton Balfour 15 September [1864]
Summary
Inquires which nurserymen near Edinburgh cultivate coloured primroses and cowslips. Wants to repeat John Scott’s remarkable experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
Date: | 15 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4613 |
To J. H. Balfour 15 June [1862?]
Summary
Thanks JHB for specimen of Corallorrhiza;
would like some seeds of Corydalis claviculata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
Date: | 15 June [1862?] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Louis Mayer Rabinovitz Collection (MS 1044) Box 1, folder 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5122 |
To J. H. Balfour 21 October [1864]
Summary
Thanks Balfour for Corydalis seed
and sends a photo of himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
Date: | 21 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5251 |
From John Hutton Balfour 14 January 1862
Summary
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]; will examine some [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden samples in its light.
Huxley visiting Edinburgh and spoke on man’s zoological relations with monkeys [see Man’s place in nature (1863)]. JHB disagrees with his views.
Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3387 |
From John Hutton Balfour 22 April 1863
Summary
Thanks for paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
One of his gardeners [John Scott] is also studying such fertilisation and appreciates CD’s encouragement; Scott has paper to read for Edinburgh Botanical Society.
Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4119 |
From J. H. Balfour 22 September 1864
Summary
Does not know an Edinburgh nurseryman who can supply the cowslips and primroses CD wants; will try to get them from the Botanic Garden.
Hears from Hooker that CD is also examining Lythrum.
Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4620 |
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Balfour, J. H. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Balfour, J. H. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |