From George Henslow [after 19 April 1866]1
10 Sth Crescent | Bedford Sq | W.C.
Dear Mr Darwin
Many thanks for your letter.2 I have got the Botanische Zeitung from the Linn: Soc: & mean to get a friend to translate it to me. It is a bother Dr Hildebrand hitting on the very same thing! I however read my note upon the structure of Indigoferae at last meeting of Soc: Linn: & called attention, at the same time, to Dr Hildebrands paper.3
I am glad to say the Governors of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital have withdrawn their restriction & have elected me their Botanical Lecturer at last!4 So I begin my duties in May.—
Thanks for explanation about Primula. 5 I see that 2d & 3d column of Table II brings out the difference more palpably. viz: that of the total No. of pods produced & of good Pods.
homo ( 5 ): Hetero ( 14 )
( 6 ) ( 11 )—6
Have you ever noticed a sort of intermediate form? viz: stamens low down, but stigma only slightly above them, with the Corolla generally larger? as in enclosed.—7
Yrs very truly | G Henslow
Footnotes
Bibliography
Collected papers: The collected papers of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett. 2 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1977.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’: On the character and hybrid-like nature of the offspring from the illegitimate unions of dimorphic and trimorphic plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 20 February 1868.] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 10 (1869): 393–437.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks for explanation on relative fertility of homostyled and heterostyled crosses in Primula. Sends an intermediate form with small stamens, but stigma only slightly above stamens.
Election as Botanical Lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5044
- From
- George Henslow
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, South Crescent, 10
- Source of text
- DAR 166: 160
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5044,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5044.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14