To A. R. Wallace [29? September 1863]
Summary
Baffling problems with Melastoma. Appreciates ARW’s help with it and the "gorze case".
Has read report of ARW’s paper [to Newcastle BAAS meeting, "On the geographical distribution of animal life"] in the Reader [2 (1863): 352–3].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [29? Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 46434: 36–7b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4310 |
From Daniel Oliver 27 November 1863
Summary
Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,
and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4349 |
From John Scott [26 July – 2 August 1863]
Summary
His orchid paper limited because he does not give illustrations from distinct genera.
Discusses the self- and cross-fertility of coloured primrose varieties. Thanks CD for tables of unpublished Primula work.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 July – 2 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4175 |
To John Scott 1 and 3 August [1863]
Summary
Thanks JS for orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50]. JS presents excellent new facts on sterility of orchids.
His argument that coloured primroses are not hybrids is good, as is idea of discovering primrose parentage by breeding for colours.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 1 and 3 Aug 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B24, B27–8, B70; DAR 147: 455 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260 |
From Charles William Crocker 1[–4] May 1863
Summary
Observes Plantago’s out-crossing mechanism.
Observations of style lengths of primroses and cowslips.
| Author: | Charles William Crocker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1[–4] May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: 28, DAR 161: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4135 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Scott, John | (2) |
| Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
