From A. W. Bennett 16 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for CD’s regrets at AWB’s leaving Nature.
Plans English editions of Asa Gray’s books [How plants grow; How plants behave].
Other publication plans.
| Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8811 |
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From A. W. Bennett 8 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Publication plans.
| Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8905 |
To A. W. Bennett 11 March [1873]
Summary
Asks about woodblocks of illustrations for Climbing plants [1875].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.438) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9350 |
To A. W. Bennett 5 May [1873]
Summary
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Date: | 5 May [1873] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8898 |
From A. W. Bennett 12 July 1873
Summary
Believes some flowers fail to produce seed because of the access of too great a quantity of pollen. Asks for CD’s opinion and references.
| Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8976 |
From Hermann Müller 10 June 1873
Summary
Reports on insects fertilising Viola tricolor and on the fertilisation of the two wild forms [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 124 n., 125].
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 154–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8941 |
From Hermann Müller 25 August 1873
Summary
Fritz Müller is now working on the Brazilian honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona).
HM thanks CD for fertilisation references.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 302 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9028 |
To Hermann Müller 5 May 1873
Summary
Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 5 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 434 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1873
Summary
Drosophyllum is coming from Dublin. Will ship it to Down when it arrives.
The awful honour of Presidency of Royal Society; his aversion to dignities and honours.
R. Strachey [Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1873): 450] has paid him and CD a compliment.
Letter from Gladstone.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 146–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8732 |
From Hermann Müller 19 May 1873
Summary
Praises Expression.
Reports on Fritz Müller’s observations of cross- and self-fertilisation. HM will cultivate the two forms [i.e., mainly self-fertilised and mainly cross-fertilised] in the way CD has described.
He continues his observation of wild flowers. Encloses drawing of Viola tricolor with notes on its self-fertility.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B181–2, DAR 77: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8907 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (2) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Bennett, A. W. | (5) |
| Müller, Hermann | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
