From George Bentham [after 12 July 1877]
Summary
Answers CD’s query on "bloom".
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11051 |
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- … DAR 160: 169 George Bentham unstated [after 12 July 1877] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … between this letter and the letter to George Bentham, 12 July 1877 . CD had asked Bentham …
- … of some plants; see letter to George Bentham, 12 July 1877 . In apricis et maritimis : …
To George Bentham 12 July [1864]
Summary
Thanks GB for specimens [of Aegiphila] and his information.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 12 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 708) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4562 |
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 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 |
From George Bentham 13 December 1876
Summary
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10718 |
To Asa Gray 3 January 1877
Summary
Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].
Is glad of the notice about black pigs.
Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;
thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10768 |
Bentham, George. 1864b. South-European Floras. Natural History Review 4: 369–84.
To Fritz Müller 2 November 1867
Summary
Variation to be published at end of month.
Dimorphism and self-sterility.
Seed dissemination in Adenanthera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 2 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5666 |
Bentham, George. 1864a. [Anniversary address, 24 May 1864.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 8 (1865): ix–xxiii.
CD’s notes arising from conversations with J. D. Hooker 8 December 1844
Summary
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 35–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-798 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1865
Summary
Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.
CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 8–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765 |
From George Bentham 26 November 1869
Summary
Comments on CD’s observations on his address; clarifies his view of the importance of isolation, the effect of climate, the plants of S. Africa and Australia.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7012 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 June 1881
Summary
CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 513–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13207 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 14 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus paper.
Dislikes the word "protoplasm", because improved microscopes will uncover more fundamental substances. Also "plasma" merely hides the ignorance of modern chemists.
Expects waxy, glaucous-leaved plants to be most frequent in dry temperate climates.
| Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Aug 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11106 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 March [1881]
Summary
Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1881] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 212–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13094 |
To Asa Gray 9 August [1862]
Summary
Believes Lythrum is trimorphic. Asks AG for seeds of plants he suspects are polymorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3685 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 November – 4 December 1860]
Summary
Encourages CD’s work in vegetable physiology.
Ascending the Lebanon JDH noted limits of plant distribution as CD requested: lower limits of a genus sharper than upper. Sharpness of boundaries related to a plant’s moisture requirement.
Impressed by "sporadic" distribution at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Nov – 4 Dec 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 158–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3000 |
From Daniel Oliver 23 October 1865
Summary
Returns a paper which he has looked over.
Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4922 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [April 1867]
Summary
Has sent JDH’s Genera plantarum to Fritz Müller who finds it useful and offers to supply JDH with Brazilian plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 [Apr 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 23–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5514 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1860]
Summary
Lyell, de facto, first to stress importance of geological changes for geographical distribution.
Asa Gray has given CD too much credit for theories of geographical distribution.
Reaction to hostile criticism
and debt to Lyell, Huxley, JDH, and W. B. Carpenter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [May 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2802 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
| Bentham, George | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Bentham, George | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (56) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
| Bentham, George | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (5) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
