To T. H. Farrer 19 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks THF for correcting the error in Orchids.
Asks him to find out what insects visit the fly orchid and for what purpose.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 19 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6185 |
To T. H. Farrer 5 June 1868
Summary
"I have seen the action on Ophrys exactly as you describe and am thoroughly ashamed of my inaccuracy."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 5 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6230 |
To T. H. Farrer 15 September [1868]
Summary
Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 15 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6365 |
To T. H. Farrer 19 September [1868]
Summary
Will send THF’s paper [on scarlet runners] to Annals and Magazine of Natural History with a note recommending publication [see 6384].
Suggests books on Lobelia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 19 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms299/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6379 |
To T. H. Farrer 24 September [1868]
Summary
Informs THF that Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish his paper [see 6384].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 24 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6389 |
To T. H. Farrer 29 October [1868]
Summary
Suggests THF write a paper on violets. Asa Gray, once a sceptic, now declares he is convinced whole structure of a flower is adapted for a cross with another individual.
Urges THF not to give up Pangenesis lightly. "It has thrown light on my mind in regard [to] a great series of complex phenomena."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 29 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6435 |
To T. H. Farrer 26 November 1868
Summary
Advises THF that best plan is to investigate the part certain structures play with all plants or orders, instead of describing means of fertilisation in particular plants. Naturalists value observations far more than reasoning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6475 |
Farrer, T. H. | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Farrer, T. H. |