To Lydia Ernestine Becker [26 or 27 May 1863]
Summary
Thinks the dark purple anthers are a mass of a Cryptogamic plant, allied to the smut of Wheat. There remains a case of a reversion from a diœcious to a hermaphrodite condition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Date: | [26 or 27 May 1863] |
Classmark: | Journal of Botany 7: 291–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4185G |
From Asa Gray 26 May 1863
Summary
Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].
Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.
Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4186 |
From John Scott 26 May [1863]
Summary
Discusses Darjeeling position. Thanks CD for advice.
Will send orchid paper [see 4087].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4187 |
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William Yarrell
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William Yarrell was a London businessman, a stationer and bookseller, who became an expert on British birds and fish, writing standard reference works on both. He was a member of several science and natural history societies, including the Linnean Society…
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