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To Richard Kippist   15 February 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | ☞Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Feb. 15th. 77

My dear Sir

Will you be so kind as to send me the 3 or 4 books as below per Rail.—

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

(1) Bot: Zeitung for 1857.
(2) Bull: Bot. Soc. de France Vol. VII. p. 465. M. Michalet
(3) — do do. do Vol. X M. Duval-Jouve1

In the Nat. Hist. Review No VIII Oct. 1862 p. 419 I find following reference

“Baillon H., sur l’emission des tube polliniques des Helianthemum” p. 56

Now I have no idea whether this is separate book, or article in some of his other books.—2 Can you aid me & send the article if you have it?

Forgive me for being so troublesome.

yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
CD cited a paper on cleistogamic flowers by Daniel Müller from Botanische Zeitung (D. Müller 1857) in Forms of flowers , p. 314. He also cited articles by Louis Eugène Michalet (Michalet 1860) and Joseph Duval-Jouve (Duval-Jouve 1863) from the Bulletin de la Société botanique de France (Forms of flowers, pp. 321, 325, and pp. 313, 333–4). Kippist was librarian of the Linnean Society.
2
The article by Ernest Henri Baillon on Helianthemum (the genus of frostweed and rock rose) appeared in the journal Adansonia (Baillon 1861; see Forms of flowers, p. 337 n.).

Bibliography

Baillon, Ernest Henri. 1861. Sur l’émission des tubes polliniques des Helianthemum. Adansonia 2 (1861–2): 56–9.

Duval-Jouve, Joseph. 1863. Sur la floraison et la fructification du Leersia Oryzoides. Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 10: 194–7.

Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.

Michalet, Louis Eugène. 1860. Sur la floraison des Viola de la section Nomimium, de l’Oxalis acetosella et du Linaria spuria. Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 7: 465–9.

Müller, Daniel. 1857. Ueber die Befruchtung der incompleten Blumen einiger Viola-arten. Botanische Zeitung, 23 October 1857, pp. 729–33.

Summary

Asks RK [Linnean Society Librarian] to send several journal volumes and articles.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10845
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.506)
Physical description
ALS 2pp †

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