From Francis Darwin [29 May 1876]
Summary
The Salvia has arrived.
Has found several fly orchids coming in flower, but no Cephalanthera or Musk.
Cannot do any teazel work.
Anthelme Thozet has sent him a lot of Ophideres.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 May 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10515I |
From St G. J. Mivart 11 June 1870
Summary
Asks by what action CD believes bee, spider, and fly orchids came to resemble their namesakes
and how the beauty of bivalves could have been produced by natural or sexual selection.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7227 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … what action CD believes bee, spider, and fly orchids came to resemble their namesakes and …
- … discussed the appearance of the bee, fly, and spider orchids, and of bivalve shellfish, in …
- … The bee, spider, and fly ophrys are, in CD’s Orchids , Ophrys apifera , O. aranifera , …
- … Orchids , pp. 68–9, CD had written, ‘ Robert Brown imagined that the flowers resembled bees in order to deter insects from visiting them; I cannot think this probable. The equal or greater resemblance of the Fly …
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 9 February 1861]
Summary
Discusses the possible explanation of why fly-orchid plants in a correspondent’s garden had no pollen-masses removed while Orchis maculata had all of its pollen-masses removed. CD points out that different orchids are fertilised by different insects. The insects needed to fertilise the fly-orchid may not have inhabited the site of the correspondent’s garden.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 9 Feb 1861] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 9 February 1861, p. 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3061 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Discusses the possible explanation of why fly-orchid plants in a correspondent’s garden …
- … The insects needed to fertilise the fly-orchid may not have inhabited the site of the …
- … sometimes flies, which by day perform the marriage ceremony. In the case of most Orchids …
- … orchids by insect agency’. Marshall was responding to CD’s notice, printed in the issue of 9 June 1860, in which CD requested readers to observe the bee or fly …
- … Fly Orchis (Ophrys muscifera) which does not grow in his neighbourhood, but which flourished in his garden, had not one of their pollen masses removed. The Orchis maculata, on the other hand, which likewise does not grow in the neighbourhood, had all its pollen masses removed. Mr. Marshall is not perhaps aware that different insects haunt different Orchids, …
To T. H. Farrer 19 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks THF for correcting the error in Orchids.
Asks him to find out what insects visit the fly orchid and for what purpose.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 19 May [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6185 |
Matches: 3 hits
From T. H. Farrer 18 May 1868
Summary
Is confirmed about the bending of the fly orchid pollinia. [See "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 141.]
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6183 |
To J. T. Moggridge 22 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks JTM for information on ants.
Mentions letter "from a Texas gentleman" Gideon Lincecum describing ants that plant seeds [see 3082].
Notes that fly orchid is unattractive to insects. Asks JTM to attempt fertilisation experiment with this plant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 22 June [1871] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.399) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7830 |
To St G. J. Mivart 13 June [1870]
Summary
In his reply to [7227] CD questions the significance of the supposed likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes.
He thinks that the beauty of shells is altogether incidental and of no use to the animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 13 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7228A |
Matches: 3 hits
- … likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes. He thinks that …
- … fly, and spider ophrys, see the letter from St G. J. Mivart, 11 June 1870 and n. 1. The large butterfly orchis is, in CD’s Orchids , …
- … Fly Ophrys is more like. Hooker believes that the Spider ophrys is so called simply from the curved marks on the Labellum like the marks on the backs of some Epeiræ. The Butterfly orchis has hardly any resemblance to a butterfly, & so with some foreign orchids …
From J. T. Moggridge 27 December [1865]
Summary
Sends a tin full of Ophrys by his brother, who should take about 60 hours to reach Down.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4957 |
From Hermann Müller 5 July 1878
Summary
Reports results of crosses between the two forms of Viola tricolor: 1. Female small flower crossed with male large flower yields all small flowers (cleistogamous self-fertilisation suspected); 2. Male small flower crossed with female large yields intermediate flowers; 3. Large flower crossed with large flower yields self-sterility symptoms.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11592 |
From Richard Trevor Clarke 14 [April 1868]
Summary
Solicits CD’s support for the newly set up Royal Horticultural Society’s Scientific Committee.
Very pleased that he was put into CD’s book [Variation 1: 352].
Sends "hybridising pincers" of his own making.
Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 [Apr 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6118 |
From J. T. Moggridge 12 July 1873
Summary
Sends his paper on Ophrys insectifera, translated into German by H. G. Reichenbach [Abh. Kais. Leopold.-Carol. Dtsch. Akad. Naturforsch. 33 (1870) no. 3], which shows the intermediates between O. aranifera and O. apifera. He has since gathered information on variation in Ophrys.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8977 |
From J. T. Moggridge 22 July 1873
Summary
He will repeat the experiments in which CD found that formic acid vapour killed seeds [see 8866]. John Lindley describes effects of other acids on germination.
He has tabulated the large amount of variation in English Ophrys apifera.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8984 |
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 18 September 1869
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6898 |
To J. T. Moggridge 13 October [1865]
Summary
Discusses self-fertilisation in bee and spider orchids. Asks JTM to conduct experiment.
Comments on plates [see J. T. Moggridge’s contribution to Flora of Mentone and winter flora of the Riviera, including the coast from Marseilles to Genoa London 1866, 1871. Part II dated 1865; Part I, 1866].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 13 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4914 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 February 1868
Summary
Rejoices over news of Variation sales.
Pall Mall Gazette review [7 (1868): 555, 636, 652] is undoubtedly by G. H. Lewes [see 5951].
Dinner at Lyells’.
Dean Stanley favours a monument to Faraday in Westminster Abbey.
Perceval Wright is back from Seychelles and reports on plants he collected.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5874 |
To Joseph Bullar 27 June [1862]
Summary
Thanks JB for "orchid flowers with Diptera".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Bullar |
Date: | 27 June [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.256) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6806 |
To Henrietta Emma Darwin [14–21 April 1866]
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 |
To John Traherne Moggridge 19 June [1864]
Summary
Discusses fertilisation of flowers by bees. Thanks JTM for drawings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 19 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 372 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4540 |
To J. T. Moggridge 1 October [1867]
Summary
Hopes JTM’s health will improve.
Asks for information about crosses of peas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 1 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 376 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5638 |
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Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Walker, Francis | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (4) |
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More, A. G. | (2) |
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Moggridge, J. T. | (10) |
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