From Friedrich Hildebrand 6 December 1876
Summary
Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10701 |
To Francis Galton 13 January [1876]
Summary
Thanks FG for his report [on the statistical validity of CD’s experiments; see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 16–18]. Discusses FG’s comments, his own experiments, and the means by which the results may be analysed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10357 |
From A. W. Bennett 7 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Reports instances of cross-fertilisation in maize,
and succession of forms of flowers on Isle of Wight.
Asks CD’s suggestions for his second edition of Julius von Sachs’s Text-book of botany.
| Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10703 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Switzerland and Italy. CD’s experiments with Zea mays confirmed that crossed plants were …
| letter | (3) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … had produced infertile hybrids in Verbascum and Zea (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … Heki – was it seems – an 100 acres (of land) – the New Zea^la^nd equivalent for a wiseacre.” …
