From T. H. Farrer 20 September 1868
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6381 |
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 24 September 1868
Summary
Wonderful how every flower one looks at is explained by, and throws light on, the fertilising process.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6391 |
From T. H. Farrer 26 October 1868
Summary
Delighted with mechanisms of Salvia and Viola. How can anyone who compares structure of Viola cornuta and common violet still suppose them to be separate creations?
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6432 |
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 2 November 1868
Summary
The conversion of Asa Gray must be a pleasure.
CD’s doctrine accounts for and gives a vera causa of structures.
Discusses F. Hildebrand’s book.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6445 |
From T. H. Farrer 21 November 1868
Summary
Thinks CD’s views of insect agency and crossing might explain structure and variations of papilionaceous flowers. Lists five points. Asks CD’s opinion.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 49; Linnean Society of London, MS Case 6B, No. 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6470 |
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 30 November 1868
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6485 |
From Thomas Henry Farrer 15 January 1869
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6556 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 May 1869
Summary
Justifies his use of term "degraded" by comparing contrivances for cross-fertilisation in different species of Viola.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6727 |
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 9 May 1869
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6739 |
From T. H. Farrer 8 August 1869
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6857 |
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 12 August 1869
Summary
Will work on papilionaceous flowers since CD encourages it. Discusses function of hairs in certain plants.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6861 |
From T. H. Farrer 18 September 1869
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6898 |
From T. H. Farrer 9 October 1869
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6929 |
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 |
From T. H. Farrer 13 October 1869
Summary
On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.
Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6935 |
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