From George Bentham 10 December 1876
Summary
Sends specimens of Boronia.
Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10708 |
From George Bentham 13 December 1876
Summary
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10718 |
From George Bentham 10 July 1877
Summary
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers. Comments on the chapter on cleistogamic flowers; offers some corrections.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11046 |
From George Bentham [after 12 July 1877]
Summary
Answers CD’s query on "bloom".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 12 July 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11051 |
From George Bentham 2 December [1856]
Summary
Cites cases of leguminous plants whose cleistogamic flowers produce more seed than perfect flowers. [See Forms of flowers, p. 326.]
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267 |
From George Bentham 7 August 1878
Summary
CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11642 |
From George Bentham 15 February 1880
Summary
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12482 |
From George Bentham 28 December 1880
Summary
Pleased to sign certificate for Francis Darwin.
Has never underrated importance of [plant] physiological studies, especially when carried out as FD has been doing.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12947 |
From George Bentham [16 or 17 December 1857]
Summary
Returns CD’s lists [sent with 2184]. Confusion in genera of Silene is great in continental botanic gardens. One would have to know whether C. F. v. Gärtner had the right names for species in his experiments.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 or 17 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2186 |
From George Bentham 26 November 1861
Summary
Remarks about Labiatae, Linum, Oxalis and Viola occasioned by hearing CD’s paper ["Two forms of Primula", read 21 Nov 1861, Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: 73–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3331 |
From George Bentham 29 November 1861
Summary
Lists pairs of Oxalis species with differing proportions of stamens and styles.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 109 (ser. 2): 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3332 |
From George Bentham 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids]. CD has opened a new field for observation and a new unexpected track to explore phenomena that had before appeared "irreconcilable with ordinary opinion and method shown in the organic world".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3554 |
From George Bentham 15 October 1862
Summary
Sends CD the reference for GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s work [see 3760].
Hopes for a communication to the Linnean Society from CD "this winter".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3765 |
From George Bentham 16 January 1863
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3920 |
From George Bentham [c. 14 April 1863]
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4096 |
From George Bentham 21 April 1863
Summary
Has not yet read the pamphlets [selection of reviews of Origin, sent by CD at GB’s request]. Though GB does not go so far as Hooker in accepting all of CD’s hypotheses and does not feel up to a thorough discussion of his views, he hopes in his Linnean Anniversary Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] to speak on the present state of the [species] question.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4118 |
From George Bentham 21 May 1863
Summary
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4172 |
From George Bentham 10 July 1864
Summary
Sends specimens of two species of Aegiphila [see Forms of flowers, p. 123]. Discusses similar forms in other plants.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B107–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4556 |
From George Bentham 25 September 1866
Summary
Replies to CD’s two memoranda, GB explains: 1. That he never said thistles do not produce seeds, but rather that the infinite majority of new plants are propagated from buds
2. That book-borrowing rules of the Linnean Library are not so stringent as the Librarian makes out.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5218 |
From George Bentham 4 October [1866]
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5231 |