To W. E. Darwin 30 [June 1866]1
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
30th
My dear William
The cuttings arrived in good time & were at once planted, & this morning your grand collection of sketches arrived: many thanks for all your great trouble—2 Your drawings show considerable difference in the two pollens, & I now believe in your discovery, which seems to me, a very curious one.—3
The anthers received this morning contained pollen too shrivelled to measure.—4 Next summer I must get you to send me some fresh flowers, & you must look a little more for gradation in form.—5 It will not do for you to publish, I think, till we have tested power of the two pollens on the two females.— It is just possible size of grains may vary in different trees.— The whole case seems to me eminently well worth working out.—
I have to pay Elinor Carter £2"16"8 for your expences at Paris.—6 You must let me hear sometime how balance is between your journey & Etty’s napoleons—7
your affect Father | C. Darwin
I suppose stamens do not differ in length in the two males8
Footnotes
Bibliography
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
OED: The Oxford English dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement and bibliography of a new English dictionary. Edited by James A. H. Murray, et al. 12 vols. and supplement. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1970. A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary. 4 vols. Edited by R. W. Burchfield. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1972–86. The Oxford English dictionary. 2d edition. 20 vols. Prepared by J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1989. Oxford English dictionary additional series. 3 vols. Edited by John Simpson et al. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993–7.
Summary
Cuttings have arrived. Different flower forms [in Rhamnus?].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5136
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Erasmus Darwin
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 185: 17
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5136,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5136.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14