From L. E. Becker 28 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s paper [not named].
Inquires whether Lychnis, as an hermaphrodite, is more susceptible to fungus, disease, other weaknesses.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4189 |
From John Scott 28 May [1863]
Summary
Sends abstract from Edinburgh Courant of his orchid sterility paper [see 4087]. Balfour altered title to obscure its theoretical nature.
Sends specimens showing curious variation.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4190 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another level, to explain the …
