To T. H. Farrer 19 September [1868]
Summary
Will send THF’s paper [on scarlet runners] to Annals and Magazine of Natural History with a note recommending publication [see 6384].
Suggests books on Lobelia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 19 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms299/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6379 |
To T. H. Farrer 24 September [1868]
Summary
Informs THF that Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish his paper [see 6384].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 24 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6389 |
To T. H. Farrer 29 October [1868]
Summary
Suggests THF write a paper on violets. Asa Gray, once a sceptic, now declares he is convinced whole structure of a flower is adapted for a cross with another individual.
Urges THF not to give up Pangenesis lightly. "It has thrown light on my mind in regard [to] a great series of complex phenomena."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 29 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6435 |
To T. H. Farrer 26 November 1868
Summary
Advises THF that best plan is to investigate the part certain structures play with all plants or orders, instead of describing means of fertilisation in particular plants. Naturalists value observations far more than reasoning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6475 |
To T. H. Farrer 6 May [1869]
Summary
Dislikes the use of the term "degradation" as applied to the closed flowers of Viola species. Species with such self-fertilising flowers also have flowers adapted for crossing. The development of closed flowers adapted to ensure a sufficient stock of seed is progressive.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 6 May [1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6730 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 August [1869]
Summary
THF’s view, if confirmed, pleases CD in that what appears a mere morphological character is found to be of use. Carl Nägeli has been attacking him on this head.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6859 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 October [1869]
Summary
Sympathises with THF at being forestalled by Delpino, but urges him to publish confirmation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6930 |
To T. H. Farrer 20 October [1869]
Summary
Comments on notes made by THF on Passiflora and Tacsonia. Suggests he examine more species. Recalls his own observations on P. princeps and Tacsonia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 20 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6945 |
To T. H. Farrer [27 November 1869]
Summary
Encloses extract from a letter from Fritz Müller about humming-birds visiting Passiflora, "as a caution about Passiflora in contrast with Tacsonia".
[Signed with CD’s name by Emma Darwin.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [27 Nov 1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7013 |
To Thomas Henry Farrer 13 [May 1870]
Summary
Encloses part of letter from Fritz Müller on Passiflora, with seeds.
Is endeavouring to have included in next census a question as to whether the parents in each household are cousins.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 13 [May 1870] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7188 |
To T. H. Farrer 28 May [1870]
Summary
Fertilisation of barberries.
Passiflora.
Is continuing his experiments on the comparative growth of crossed and self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 28 May [1870] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7205 |
To T. H. Farrer [29 June 1870]
Summary
Encloses seeds from Fritz Müller, of a species of Passiflora, fertilised by a humble-bee.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [29 June 1870] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7250 |
To T. H. Farrer 2 [March 1871]
Summary
Was aware of Maine’s view but never thought of its extension to morals. Cannot avoid thinking that personal property like flint tools must have "strictly belonged to individuals as much as a bone to a dog".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 2 [Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/14a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7530 |
To T. H. Farrer 21 June [1871]
Summary
Confesses to intense hatred of the bee [orchid] for its anomalous perpetual self-fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 21 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Cullum M411) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7828 |
To T. H. Farrer 13 October [1872]
Summary
THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.
Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 13 Oct [1872] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8557 |
To T. H. Farrer 28 April 1873
Summary
Recommends Hermann Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 28 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8885 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 August [1873]
Summary
Asks THF to examine old flowers of Coronilla for holes bored by bees.
Is investigating whether drops of water injure leaves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Aug [1873] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9003 |
To T. H. Farrer 14 August 1873
Summary
Thinks THF has solved the mystery of Coronilla.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 14 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9010 |
To T. H. Farrer 1 December [1873]
Summary
Suggests a reference to Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 Dec 1873, p. 497, when THF takes up Coronilla.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 1 Dec [1873] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9166 |
To T. H. Farrer 10 April 1874
Summary
Delighted to hear about Coronilla. Urges publication ["Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers– Coronilla", Nature 10 (1874): 169–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9400 |
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