From Friedrich Hildebrand 10 November 1863
Summary
Pleased CD has had his [FH’s] orchid paper published [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].
Extension of CD’s Primula heterostyly work.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4337 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Friedrich Hildebrand 10 November 1863 …
- … 201 Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand Bonn 10 Nov 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] . Hildebrand’s paper on orchids ( …
- … Natural History ( Hildebrand 1863b ). See letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] . …
- … See letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] . Hildebrand published his experiments …
From Friedrich Hildebrand 16 July 1863
Summary
He and L. C. Treviranus have repeated many of CD’s orchid observations with the same results. Sends his paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45].
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4242 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From Friedrich Hildebrand 16 July 1863 …
- … Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand Bonn 16 July 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1863b ; see letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] ). On Ludolph Christian …
To Friedrich Hildebrand 28 July [1863]
Summary
Comments on FH’s paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish it in September [3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 28 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4255 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Friedrich Hildebrand 28 July [1863] …
- … 8). See also n. 8, below. See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and n. 5. …
- … See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and nn. 7 and 8. ‘Dimorphic condition …
- … 1863a . See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and n. 2. See letter from …
- … Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 July [1863] Friedrich …
From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863]
Summary
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863] …
- … between this letter and the letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 November 1863 . …
- … See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 November 1863 . The references are to Ludolph …
- … 1863a . See also letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 . In Treviranus 1863c , …
- … Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018. ) Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin Down 20 Nov [1863] Friedrich …
From Friedrich Hildebrand 21 June 1864
Summary
Studying insect pollination in Salvia
and heterostyly in Pulmonaria officinalis which is similar to Linum case.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4542 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … vol. 11, letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 November 1863 , and letter from …
- … Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand, 20 November [1863] . For his description of Orchis …
- … vol. 11, letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 ). CD had arranged for the …
- … see also Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] , and …
- … letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 10 November 1863 ). For the results of Hildebrand’s …
To Daniel Oliver 18 July [1863]
Summary
Sends F. Hildebrand’s paper for publication by the Linnean Society or in Natural History Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 18 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 51 (EH 88206034) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4244 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … has not been found, but see letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and n. 2. …
- … See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and n. 2. Hildebrand 1863a . Joseph …
- … Natural History ( Hildebrand 1863b ; see letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] ). …
- … See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and nn. 5 and 6. CD’s notes of his …
To M. T. Masters [28 March – 5 April 1867]
Summary
Discusses the orchid specimens received from MTM. Remarks on the self-sterility of Cypripedium and other orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [28 Mar – 5 Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5468 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 11, letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 , and Correspondence vol. 14, …
- … Friedrich Hildebrand , and Hildebrand 1866a . CD refers to data presented in Hildebrand 1863 …
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1863]
Summary
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4250 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … and the letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] . Hildebrand’s paper was published …
- … Oliver, 20 July 1863 and n. 1. The references are to Friedrich Hildebrand and to the …
- … Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 July 1862) . The editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History were Prideaux John Selby , Charles Cardale Babington , John Edward Gray , and William Francis . Neither CD’s letter, nor the reply, has been found; however, see the letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] , …
From Daniel Oliver 20 July 1863
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper is unsuitable for the Natural History Review.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4247 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1863). See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 July 1863 and nn. 5 and 6, and letter to …
- … Friedrich Hildebrand , for possible publication in the Natural History Review , of which Oliver was an editor (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 18 July [1863] ). …
To P. H. Gosse 2 June [1863]
Summary
Can only conjecture that the problem occurs because the plant is not living in its natural conditions. Refers to what he said on Acropera [in Orchids]. Many plants under culture have sexual functions altered.
Asks PHG to look at bee Ophrys at Torquay to see if pollinia are ever removed. "It is my greatest puzzle."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Date: | 2 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4200 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … observations, see the letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] , and ‘Fertilization …
To Thomas Meehan 13 May 1878
Summary
Criticises article by TM. "Such a manner of treating the work of other observers did not appear to me the way to encourage truth."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Meehan |
Date: | 13 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 356 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11507 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Hildebrand 1864 , p. 2, and Forms of flowers , p. 98). Friedrich Alefeld had noted that North and South American species of Linum had monomorphic flowers with capitate stigmas and styles united ( Alefeld 1863 , …
- … 1863, pp. 281–2. Forms of flowers : The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877. Hildebrand, Friedrich. …
To J. D. Hooker 2 December 1868
Summary
Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.
No work exists on various biological points in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 102–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6487 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to Friedrich Hildebrand and Hildebrand 1867a , and to Eugène Fournier and Fournier 1863 . …
To J. D. Hooker 5 April [1864]
Summary
Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.
CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 227a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4450 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Scott , Friedrich Hildebrand , Asa Gray and Henry Trimen ( Mohl 1863 , Treviranus …
From Friedrich Hildebrand 18 January 1877
Summary
Praise for Cross and self-fertilisation: most important point proved is benefit of crossing between related individuals grown under different conditions. This explains adaptive value of dispersal mechanisms.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10803 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 July 1862) . Hildebrand began to publish on dimorphism and related topics from 1863; …
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Scott, 21 September [1863] (see n. 21, below). Friedrich Hildebrand was a lecturer in …
- … Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 July 1862) . Hildebrand regularly contributed to Botanische Zeitung , a weekly botanical magazine published in Leipzig ( Correns 1916 , Royal Society catalogue of scientific papers ). In his letter of 21 September [1863] , …
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … November 1863] ). CD had offered to send a copy of Scott 1863a to Friedrich Hildebrand in …
To John Scott 25 [July 1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to continue work on coloured primrose. No one has noticed this since Gärtner. CD will send his own data for JS’s use and will read MS when ready. Advises JS to repeat experiments if evidence is weak – for his reputation’s sake and for satisfaction at fully establishing a fact.
Treviranus made a slip of pen in writing of Primula longiflora as short-styled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 25 [July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B45–6, B69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4253 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hildebrand 1863b , which appeared in the September 1863 issue of Annals and Magazine of Natural History (see preceding letter). Friedrich …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 July 1875
Summary
Would be obliged for correction of references in Variation [1st ed.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 21 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 25–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10084 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Friedrich Hildebrand determined that in many orchids ovules are not developed until weeks or months after pollen-tubes have penetrated the stigma ( Hildebrand 1863 …
To Asa Gray 21 [and 22] January 1878
Summary
Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].
Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.
Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.
Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?
Observations on heliotropism.
Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 and 22 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11330 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hildebrand 1864 . Linum perenne is blue flax. Friedrich Alefeld’s remarks were in Alefeld 1863 , …
To Fritz Müller 25 September [1866]
Summary
Fertilisation in orchids: Friedrich Hildebrand’s paper.
Self-sterility.
Climbing plants.
Agassiz’s attempts to eliminate all Darwinian views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5216 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Friedrich Hildebrand reported his results from pollinating and cross-pollinating several species of orchids in Hildebrand 1863 …
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Hildebrand, Friedrich | (4) |
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Caspary, Robert | (1) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Scott, John | (2) |
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Hildebrand, Friedrich | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |