Miscellaneous correspondence relating to observations of garden flowers, including hyacinth and hollyhock. A few letters are in French. These letters were found together.
Flowering plants
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Photocopy of page from 'Nature', August 1 1925, reporting the lecture.
Contains pencil notes on plant breeding in Bateson's hand. The heading 'Campanula' is inscribed on the first page and the contents appear to relate principally to these. Notes on Nicotiana and Fuchsia are included.
11pp unsigned manuscript draft of a paper; in French. Unidentified handwriting.
Bateson's correspondence with various individuals, chiefly L. Daniel and J.P. Lotsy. Several letters are in French.
Attached to, or contained within, pieces of paper. Manuscript notes on these papers, in Bateson's and other hands, give the names of the flowers, dates found etc. The names are as follows: Weldenia candida, Narcissus minimus, Calliphruria hartwegiana, Brunsvigia grandiflora.
The correspondence consists almost entirely of letters from Gregory to Bateson covering various plant-breeding work. Principal topics include Primulas and 'giant' plant varieties. Divided into 3 folders for ease of reference.
Brief correspondence to Bateson from Heape, 1907, re studies of sex determination; one letter only from Henslow to Bateson, 1903, re petunia, with small reprint of 'The True Province of Natural Selection', by Henslow, from 'Gardeners' Chronicle', 13 Jan. 1906; one letter only from Hertwig to Bateson, 1911, in German.