From Isaac Anderson-Henry 3 April 1867
Summary
Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5484 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … at which Robert Trail made some remarks about hybrid potatoes (see letter to J. D. …
- … directory 1863–4. Robert Trail later wrote to CD from Aberlady Lodge, Drem ( letter …
- … Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 ); Drem is about three miles east of Aberlady. CD had written to Trail on 1 April; see letter …
- … Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 . CD gave information supplied by Trail about producing potato hybrids in Variation 1: 395–6; he remarked that he had repeated the experiments on a large scale, but with no success (see also letter …
To Asa Gray 15 April [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for his trouble about expression queries; wishes he had thought earlier of having them printed.
Is "plodding on" correcting Variation
and getting "a little amusement" from plant experiments. Oxalis is trimorphic like Lythrum.
Is continuing his experiments on seedling vigour.
Has heard hybrid potatoes can be produced by joining halves of different tubers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5442 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1867]
Summary
Rejoices over baby’s improvement.
Horace Darwin has intermittent fever.
Thanks JDH for page of the Farmer, a great service.
R. Trail’s potato grafting case would be of extreme value for demonstrating Pangenesis. [See Variation 1: 395.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5485 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … but it does not include Robert Trail’s remarks. CD’s letters to Anderson-Henry and Trail …
- … Robert Trail, 5 April 1867 . CD mentioned Trail’s information in Variation 1: 395–6; he said he had repeated Trail’s experiments without success. CD published his ‘Provisional hypothesis of pangenesis’ in chapter 12 of Variation ( Variation 2: 357–404); he had discussed it with Hooker in 1866 and during March 1867 (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter …
To Friedrich Hildebrand 5 January [1868]
Summary
Congratulates FH on graft-hybrid of potato. Importance of FH’s discovery to be discussed in Variation [2d ed., 1: 420].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1868] |
| Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5777 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 2 January 1868
Summary
Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.
Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.
F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5774 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 April 1867
Summary
Trail’s case is interesting, hopes it is true.
Has little faith in I. Anderson-Henry’s exactness.
Pleased with Paris exposition.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 161–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5501 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
