Scott, John. 1864d. Remarks on the sexual changes in the inflorescence of Zea Mays. [Read 10 December 1864.] Transactions of the Botanical Society [of Edinburgh] 8 (1866): 55–62.
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From E. L. Sturtevant 12 January 1878
Summary
Encloses some notes on maize that may be useful.
Author: | Edward Lewis Sturtevant |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 269 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11320 |
Scott, John. 1863b. Remarks on the sexual changes in the inflorescence of Zea Mays. [Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 10 December 1863.] Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal n.s. 19 (1864): 213–20.
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To John Scott 19 November [1862]
Summary
Praises JS’s experimenting.
Has he ever studied the relative fertility of varieties? CD very interested in this subject.
Discusses Acropera.
Wants to quote JS on Zea [Variation 1: 321].
CD sends his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B11–B14, DAR 147: 431 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3814 |
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 Federico Delpino 14 October 1869
Summary
Cautions FD about fluid in labellum of Coryanthes.
T. H. Farrer is enthusiastic about FD’s papers.
Believes humming-birds fertilise many American flowers.
Mentions his reply to FD’s criticisms ["Pangenesis: Mr Darwin’s reply to Professor Delpino", Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 426; Collected papers 2: 158–60].
Suggests that FD study fertilisation of Gramineae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 14 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6938 |
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 |
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- … Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [ Zea ] crosses and apple-trees. F. Delpino has …
From John Scott 7 January [1864]
Summary
Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].
Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4382 |
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 Benjamin Clarke 25 March 1867
Summary
Thanks for subscription.
Reports experiments with wheat.
Sends notes on producing varieties by pruning.
Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 157, 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5460 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 [January 1863]
Summary
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3852 |
From E. W. Black 20 November 1877
Summary
Gives exceptions to maize being monoecious, as CD claims in Cross and self-fertilisation; reversion may be cause of hermaphrodite flowers observed.
Sends paper on potatoes and asks CD to republish.
Author: | Evans Willson Black |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11241 |
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- … New York, 1877. ) it is stated that the plant Zea Mays is monœcious . That it is generally …
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 |
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- … Switzerland and Italy. CD’s experiments with Zea mays confirmed that crossed plants were …
To Francis Darwin 4 July [1879]
Summary
CD gives suggestions concerning FD’s experiments on the radicles of roots. Asks him to find out whether J. von Sachs tried beans. Should also try other gramineous plants.
Bernard looking forward to his father’s return.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 4 July [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 271.4: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12134A |
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- … Darwin, 4 July 1879 ). In experiments with Zea mays (maize), Theophil Ciesielski had …
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1877
Summary
JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 74–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10802 |
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- … Triticum is the genus of wheat; maize is Zea mays . Samuel James Augustus Salter had …
To Francis Darwin 6 [July 1878]
Summary
Has a magnificent bush of Porlieria. There is no vestige of bloom; CD will test for sleep movements. Reports successful experiments on temperature-induced sensitivity of radicles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 6 [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11593 |
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- … until 6 July. CD’s notes on radicles of Zea mays (maize), dated between 2 and 8 July [ …
To Francis Darwin 7 [July 1878]
Summary
Describes sleep movements in Porlieria and his experiments on movements of radicles.
Thalia flowers have interesting mechanism to ensure cross-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 7 [July 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11595 |
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- … Darwin’s sketches of the roots of maize ( Zea mays ) are in DAR 209.5: 200–3. In Movement …
From John Scott 21 September [1863]
Summary
Sends Primula MS, which CD has promised to communicate to Linnean Society [see 4213].
Will soon send results on peloric Antirrhinum.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4301 |
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- … Scott to carry out crossing experiments on Zea mays (maize) and species of Passiflora …
From Francis Darwin 23 [May 1881]
Summary
Would like some of his notes. Has been looking at roots of Linum, cucurbits, larch, and orchids. Is content that mother should teach Bernard whatever religion she likes.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 [May 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13170F |
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- … family of orchids is Orchidaceae. Maize is Zea mays ; the common sunflower is Helianthus …
To John Scott 25 [July 1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to continue work on coloured primrose. No one has noticed this since Gärtner. CD will send his own data for JS’s use and will read MS when ready. Advises JS to repeat experiments if evidence is weak – for his reputation’s sake and for satisfaction at fully establishing a fact.
Treviranus made a slip of pen in writing of Primula longiflora as short-styled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 25 [July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B45–6, B69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4253 |
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CCD intro in Commentary
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, …