To Friedrich Hildebrand 17 July 1875
Summary
Asks about FH’s research on maize. Suggests experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 17 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10075 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 26 July 1875
Summary
No new experiments on mutually sterile maize varieties since his paper in Botanische Zeitung in 1868.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10094 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 28 July [1875]
Summary
Apologises that he cannot supply any maize seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 28 July [1875] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10098F |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 6 December 1876
Summary
Repeated maize crosses without success: i.e., in most cases yellow and red varieties did not produce fertile offspring.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10701 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 18 January 1877
Summary
Praise for Cross and self-fertilisation: most important point proved is benefit of crossing between related individuals grown under different conditions. This explains adaptive value of dispersal mechanisms.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10803 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 19 March 1877
Summary
Regrets he cannot help on Oxalis question. He did not note the names of species with cleistogamic flowers as he thought they were sufficiently known.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10900 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 29 March 1879
Summary
Thanks for FHGH’s new book; also for the list of seeds, but he does not want any at present.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 29 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11960F |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 4 December 1880
Summary
Preoccupied by reorganisation of Botanic Garden.
Regards to Francis Darwin.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12888 |
From Friedrich Hermann Gustav Hildebrand 14 July 1862
Summary
Offers to translate Orchids, since H. G. Bronn has died.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3658 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 17 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Hildebrand’s offer to translate Orchids into German, but H. G. Bronn had finished his translation before his death (Bronn trans. 1862). Has not yet received Hildebrand’s work on the distribution of coniferous trees (Hildebrand 1861). Asks that his compliments be presented to L. C. Treviranus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 17 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3660F |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 16 July 1863
Summary
He and L. C. Treviranus have repeated many of CD’s orchid observations with the same results. Sends his paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45].
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4242 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 28 July [1863]
Summary
Comments on FH’s paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish it in September [3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 28 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4255 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 10 November 1863
Summary
Pleased CD has had his [FH’s] orchid paper published [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].
Extension of CD’s Primula heterostyly work.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4337 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 21 June 1864
Summary
Studying insect pollination in Salvia
and heterostyly in Pulmonaria officinalis which is similar to Linum case.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4542 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 25 June [1864]
Summary
Thanks for orchids.
Recovering from nine months’ illness.
Discusses fertilisation of Pulmonaria.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 25 June [1864] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4545 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 20 April [1866]
Summary
Is obliged to receive FH’s papers. The cases of Lopezia and Schizanthus are new to him.
In 1860 CD watched Bombus lapidarius sucking the flowers of Pedicularis sylvatica and saw what FH has described.
Has not yet read the paper on Salvia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 698) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5062A |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 11 May 1866
Summary
Sending his paper on tristyly in Oxalis.
Cannot attend botanical congress, where CD will be vice-president.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5087 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 16 May [1866]
Summary
Has forwarded FH’s paper on Fumariaceae to horticultural congress. Comments on its findings.
Discusses forms of Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5092 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 22 July [1866]
Summary
Points out an error in proof-sheets of Hildebrand’s paper on Corydalis cava (Hildebrand 1866d) and suggests some improvements to the English.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 22 July [1866] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5163F |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 24 July 1866
Summary
Assures CD of his belief in descent from his first reading of Origin.
Describes a case of dichogamy.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 204; DAR 49: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5166 |
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