To Thomas Rivers 8 June [1866]
Summary
Examined the Cytisus and forwarded to Caspary. The C. adami case "gets more and more perplexing", asks for report if Cytisus purpureus-elongatus produces any pods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 8 June [1866] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5115 |
To Thomas Rivers 13 October [1866]
Summary
Greatly interested in case of purple nuts but, after seeing TR’s specimens, dares not trust his case. Wishes he lived near TR or were strong enough to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5241 |
From Thomas Rivers 6 June 1866
Summary
Sends blooms of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5114 |
Matches: 2 hits
From Robert Caspary [after 9 June 1866]
Summary
Data on good and bad pollen-grain yields of different species. Sends sketches of two male Rhamnus catharticus flowers [see Forms of flowers, p. 294].
| Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 9 June 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A81; DAR 111: B45, B48b, B48c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10344 |
From Thomas Rivers 26 April 1867
Summary
Sends a root of a wild oat-grass from California and the root of a variety of barley that came from it. Several varieties of barley, all differing from English varieties, came up in the same bed of oat-grass. "The transmutation of a genus seems almost incredible" but TR has seen so many changes he has ceased to doubt strongly.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5516 |
From Thomas Rivers 17 May 1866
Summary
Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5094 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … See letter to Thomas Rivers, 27 April [1866] . CD had requested that Rivers send him …
- … letter to Thomas Rivers, 28 December [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Thomas Rivers, 7 January [1863] ). CD had also asked Asa Gray about cases of buds with blended characters produced at the junction of stock and graft (see letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] ). …
From Thomas Rivers 8 October 1866
Summary
Has searched scores of purple-fruited nut-trees, but not a nut is to be found. Has heard there are some nearby and will send them as soon as he receives them.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5235 |
From George Maw 18 June 1866
Summary
In response to CD’s request for bud-sports, he sends a piece of a fern-leaved beech.
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5124 |
To Thomas Rivers 27 April [1866]
Summary
Asks for racemes of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus and C. adami for comparison, because Robert Caspary argues that C. adami is not a common hybrid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1866] |
| Classmark: | Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5070 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 April 1866]
Summary
Needs Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris 7 (1830).
Asks that Oliver provide a reference for microscopical appearance and structure of a bud.
Was very well on first part of London visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 287 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5071 |
From Searles Valentine Wood 16 July 1866
Summary
Barley growing from old oat stalks.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5156 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Asa Gray 7 May 1866
Summary
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5081 |
From Thomas Rivers 20 May 1866
Summary
Sends a sketch of the haricot climbing the shoot of the plum-tree [see 4866].
Hopes to see CD at the [Horticultural] Congress on Wednesday [30 May].
Sends data on movement direction of Wisteria shoots.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 166; 176: 188.1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5102 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Alexander Wallace 28 February 1868
Summary
Proportion of sexes in insects, captured and bred. [see Descent 1: 313.]
| Author: | Alexander Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 85: B41–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5953 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Charles William Nunn 23 September 1868
Summary
Sends an ear of wheat that has an oat kernel growing on it.
| Author: | Charles W Nunn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6387 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from J. B. Innes, 16 December [1862] ). For similar correspondence on the relationship between wheat, oats, and barley, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from C. S. Bate, 6 January 1864 , Correspondence vol. 14, letter from G. S. Gibson, 7 July 1866 , and Correspondence vol. 15, letter from Thomas Rivers, …
| letter | (15) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (8) |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
