From Lydia Ernestine Becker 30 March 1864
Summary
Sends CD a copy of her book [Botany for novices (1864?)], intended to encourage the young, especially ladies, to study nature.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4441 |
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From L. E. Becker 28 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" and other papers [as requested in 5316].
Sends specimens of a variety of Primula not mentioned by CD [in Primula paper, Collected papers 2: 45–63?].
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5327 |
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 18 May 1863
Summary
Sends flowers of a variety of Lychnis dioica which has bisexual flowers.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4170 |
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 13 January 1869
Summary
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 105, 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6551 |
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 6 February 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31] and "Climbing plants" sent to Manchester Ladies’ Literary Society. Comments on Lythrum.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5391 |
To Lydia Ernestine Becker [26 or 27 May 1863]
Summary
Thinks the dark purple anthers are a mass of a Cryptogamic plant, allied to the smut of Wheat. There remains a case of a reversion from a diœcious to a hermaphrodite condition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Date: | [26 or 27 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Botany 7: 291–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4185G |
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 22 December 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for previous communications. Asks him to send a paper relating to flowers to be read at first meeting of her ladies’ literary and scientific society.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5316 |
From L. E. Becker 29 December 1869
Summary
Asks CD to which journal she should send her Lychnis paper and whether she may quote extracts from his letters to her.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7037 |
Becker, Lydia Ernestine. 1864. Botany for novices: a short outline of the natural system of classification of plants. By L. E. B. London: Whittaker & Co.
Becker, Lydia Ernestine. 1869b. On an alteration in the structure of Lychnis dioica observed in connection with the development of a parasitic fungus. Journal of Botany 7: 291–2.
To L. E. Becker 2 August [1863]
Summary
Thanks LEB for the Lychnis seed [see 4258], which he will plant in the hope of fertilising the little ovaria.
Comments on the two forms of Linum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | Charterhouse Archives (ACC 013) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260A |
From L. E. Becker 16 January 1877
Summary
Sends letter clipped from Manchester Courier on CD’s accounting for scarcity of holly berries by scarcity of bees, and writer’s explanation of latter.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10792 |
Becker, Lydia Ernestine. 1869a. On alteration in the structure of Lychnis diurna, observed in connexion with the development of a parasitic fungus. [Read August 1869.] Report of the 39th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Exeter, Transactions of the sections, p. 106.
From L. E. Becker 21 May [1863]
Summary
Has forwarded a box of Lychnis plants to CD; gives her observations on the variations in stamen length.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4173 |
From L. E. Becker 31 July [1863]
Summary
Has found seeds produced by an hermaphroditic Lychnis and will send them. On structural obstacles to fertilisation of hermaphrodite Lychnis.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4258 |
From L. E. Becker 28 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s paper [not named].
Inquires whether Lychnis, as an hermaphrodite, is more susceptible to fungus, disease, other weaknesses.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4189 |
From L. E. Becker 14 October 1869
Summary
Sends abstract of her BAAS paper on the role of a parasitic fungus in producing bisexual flowers in Lychnis.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 117, 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6937 |
From L. E. Becker 23–4 May [1863]
Summary
Gives the results of her observations on Lychnis; lists four different types of flower present and their occurrence.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23–4 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4182 |
From L. E. Becker 8 July [1863]
Summary
Sends seeds of female Lychnis diurna; has found none in hermaphrodites.
On variation, hybridity, and inheritance of parasites in this plant.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4235 |
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hothouse in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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