To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 13 November 1858]
Summary
Reports the decreased yield of pods resulting from excluding bees from the flowers of the kidney bean. Gives other observations suggesting the importance of bees in the fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers.
Cites cases of crosses between varieties of bean grown close together and requests observations from readers on the subject. States his belief "that is a law of nature that every organic being should occasionally be crossed with a different individual of the same species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 13 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 13 November 1858, pp. 828–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2359 |
To W. D. Fox 13 November [1858]
Summary
Has suggested WDF’s name to Hooker and Henslow, who are sending a circular for aid to John Ralfs.
Is working steadily at his abstract, hopes to publish in spring.
Asks if WDF has seen a donkey with double shoulder stripe; also, has he seen a black greyhound with tan feet and a tan spot over each eye? "Such must exist because theory tells me it ought!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 13 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2360 |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |