From Mary Treat 3 April 1876
Summary
Encloses Pinguicula specimens.
Believes she has found a new species of water-lily.
| Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10439 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 April 1863
Summary
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094 |
From Robert Swinhoe 4 August 1868
Summary
Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.
Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6303 |
To Thomas Meehan 9 October 1874
Summary
Doubts whether sudden and great variations often occur.
Comments on colours of flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
| Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 353 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9672 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 May 1863]
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4140 |
From Charles Cardale Babington 17 January 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Asks if CD has observed the true oxlip (Primula elatior).
Comments on Hottonia and Stellaria graminea. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 72, 313.]
| Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 58–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3393 |
From Thomas Meehan 22 September 1874
Summary
Sends CD his photo
and a copy of his address at Hartford ["Change by gradual modification not the universal law", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. (1874) pt 2: 7–12]. Does not believe his observations are unfavourable to natural selection but feels there are other factors involved in the origin of form.
Discusses further his work on colour and sex in plants; the linking of high colour and maleness.
| Author: | Thomas Meehan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9651 |
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- … John Murray. 1877. Meehan, Thomas. 1869. On the sexes of plants. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1869): 256–60. Meehan, Thomas. 1874. Change by gradual modification not the universal law. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1873) pt B: …
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