To A. W. Bennett 17 July [1875]
Summary
Thanks AWB for review in Nature [probably review of Insectivorous plants, 12 (1875): 206–9, 228–31].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 17 July [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10074 |
To A. W. Bennett 16 December [1875]
Summary
Arranges to visit AWB.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 16 Dec [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10300 |
To A. W. Bennett [17 December 1875]
Summary
Declines invitation to breakfast.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | [17 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10303 |
To A. W. Bennett 9 November [1869]
Summary
Returns proofs of a notice which he finds "highly honourable" to himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 9 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Provenance unknown: formerly Sang Collection of Autographs and Manuscripts, Illinois Institute of Technology |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6980 |
To A. W. Bennett 29 February [1872]
Summary
Asks AWB for a reference to a paper;
thanks him for his generous review of the last edition [6th] of the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 29 Feb [1872] |
Classmark: | Kōbunzo (dealers) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8227 |
To A. W. Bennett [before 16 November 1871]
Summary
Discussed observations made in 1863 of Impatiens pollen and humble-bees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | [before 16 Nov 1871] |
Classmark: | Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 13 (1873): 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8303F |
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 |
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 22 September [1874]
Summary
Thanks for sending papers by Hermann Hoffmann.
Discusses spiral cells in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 22 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9653 |
To A. W. Bennett 27 September [1874]
Summary
Returns copy of Botanische Zeitung.
Responds to comments on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred William Bennett |
Date: | 27 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9660 |
From A. W. Bennett 17 December 1875
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10302 |
From A. W. Bennett 7 December 1876
Summary
Thanks for copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Reports instances of cross-fertilisation in maize,
and succession of forms of flowers on Isle of Wight.
Asks CD’s suggestions for his second edition of Julius von Sachs’s Text-book of botany.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10703 |
From Alfred William Bennett 22 April 1869
Summary
Sends paper on mechanisms of cross-fertilisation in flowers ["Note on Parnassia palustris", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 24–31].
Studying how fertilisation takes place without the aid of insects in winter varieties.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6710 |
From A. W. Bennett 3 May 1869
Summary
Sends CD some notes [missing] on the mode of fertilisation of winter-flowering plants, and outlines his conclusions regarding the different types of winter-flowerers and the means by which they are fertilised.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B176–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6724 |
From A. W. Bennett 22 November 1872
Summary
Proposes establishing a quarterly journal for longer, illustrated articles of some popular appeal. Seeks CD’s support.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8640 |
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 |
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 |
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 A. W. Bennett 21 September 1874
Summary
Sends papers and references.
Reports his microscopic observations on Drosera and other plants.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9648 |
From A. W. Bennett 12 March 1875
Summary
Has found the relation of pollen-grain size to style size in Primula to be the opposite of CD’s view; asks whether there is an error or just remarkable variation.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9884 |
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