From George Bentham 21 May 1863
Summary
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
| Author: | George Bentham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4172 |
From L. E. Becker 21 May [1863]
Summary
Has forwarded a box of Lychnis plants to CD; gives her observations on the variations in stamen length.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4173 |
From John Scott 21 May [1863]
Summary
Supports, in his orchid paper, CD’s view that sterility occurs at random [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
Cannot get his Drosera paper published [abstract in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 17 (1863): 317–18].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 181, DAR 177: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4174 |
| letter | (3) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … The Journal of researches , Darwin’s account of his travels round the world in H.M.S. Beagle …
