From J. D. Hooker [before 29 December 1862]
Summary
Comments on items in the Saturday Review and the Edinburgh Review.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 29 Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3879F |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 29 December [1862]
Summary
Asks for any authentic cases of "sports", which CD calls "bud-variations". Flowers introduced from warmer temperate regions are said to be particularly apt to sport in this way.
CD now has proof that Cinchona is dimorphic and that some dimorphic plants are absolutely sterile with their own-form pollen.
Asks GHKT to examine or send pollen specimens of two Ceylon genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3880 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1862]
Summary
Genera plantarum reviewed in Parthenon by a man who says JDH is disgraced by being "obviously tinged with Darwinism".
CD by chance has found that Saturday Review article [14 (1862): 589] on Duke of Argyll was written by his [CD’s] nephew, Henry Parker.
Asa Gray sends American newspapers which CD never reads.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 [Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 175 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3881 |
From Asa Gray 29 December 1862
Summary
Encloses maize seeds.
Has heard of a butterfly with pollinia of Platanthera stuck to it.
Comments on AG’s notes ["Dimorphism in the genitalia of flowers", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 149–50].
"Precocious fertilisation".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: 85, DAR 165: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3882 |
To Hugh Falconer 29 December [1862]
Summary
Has HF met with any cases of what gardeners call "sports" and what CD will call "bud-variations"?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3883 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
