From J. T. Moggridge 21 May [1866]
Summary
Sends plants from France.
J. B. E. Bornet of Antibes, working in G. A. Thuret’s garden, finds Cistus hybrids do not follow the old dictum of having the mother’s foliage and the father’s habit. Bornet is engaged in long-term study.
JTM seeks invitation to Down.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 206 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5096 |
To Henrietta Emma Darwin [14–21 April 1866]
Summary
Discusses some observations on, and the fertilisation of, Ophrys.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [14–21 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5074 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 15 February [1866]
Summary
Is sending Ophrys plants marked as CD requested as wild or under cultivation. Discusses arrangements for a scheme planned for 1867 and his method for marking his Ophrys specimens.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR Pamphlet collection G368 (bound in part of Moggridge 1865–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5008A |
To Fritz Müller [9 and] 15 April [1866]
Summary
Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.
Fertilisation of Aristolochia.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].
Is preparing new edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 9 and 15 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5050 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … fly-trap ( Apocynum androsaemifolium ); it is cross-pollinated by insects, which can become caught by their probosces or legs. CD was familiar with this species (see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Daniel Oliver, [21 November 1860] and n. 5, and letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 November 1860 ). The original text has been corrected in CD’s hand from ‘Asclepiadae’ to ‘Apocyneae’; on contemporary disagreements about the inclusion of particular species within these families, see Lindley 1853 , p. 625. The information on orchids …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
