RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Gardeners' Chronicle, 1841-1842.] CUL-DAR75.1. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR 72-75 contain Darwin's abstracts of scientific books and journals.
Introduction
This is possibly the first of twelve abstracts of Gardeners' Chronicle (1841-1843) and Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1844-). One of Darwin's favourite magazines in which he published many articles and letters seeking information. There is a bound manuscript index to Darwin's collection 1841-1871 in the Cory Library, Cambridge Botanic Garden. It has a list of numbers of the magazine missing from the collection and a "List of the numbers of special interest to Darwin and kept by him in separate parcels". This gives the page numbers and the subject of the articles of interest to CD and which he often annotated. The index is transcribed only in Darwin Online. (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021, p. 265) CUL-DAR222.1-
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Volume 1841
[205] Hacons in [illeg] Charles than other Burs
275 The first frost destroys Potatoes as certainly as in Raleigh's Time & [illeg] Vine?
291 trees under artificial Heat ( [illeg] have progressing vegetated carbon)
- Cherries do not set well in hot house without assistance from my [visit]
292 Vines in N. France not hurt by insects which in [2 words illeg] in South
329 Fern-leaved Beech sporting Back to common form (This is kind of reversion)
344 Dr Greville on Quercus when intermedia Only vars
383 Chidham wheat [found] in Hedge
437 Truffle-hunting hereditary in Pigs
439 some degree of acclimatizing to Indian Climate
485 Bean Flowers perforated did only fair set seed Pods!! 596 In [Phacerlus] germ said to be destroyed by Bees biting!!
557 Canton on Mammals of Chusan.
585 Two kinds of M will not fruit if grafter on [2 words illeg]
600 Book on Improvement of Heartease
663 Infarcial orange good case
617 Nectarine on Peach
645 Mayes, had cowslip & Primula &c from Polyanthus p. 660
687 [Acheson polyanthus] Hornbeam hereditary (Ch. 9) Bee in Lilium case
689 Irish yew pretty true from seed
767 Arch. Whately grafts of late & early trees
782 [illeg] Tulip bulbs them all different in variations
814 Sport in Tubers & Potatoes.
844 History of Calceolaria
Volume 1842
5 On Quercus sessiliflora & robur
21 On increase in size of gooseberry
38 [illeg] oak sometimes turn to seed
[illeg] [illeg] flower seen instances of Reversion to [illeg] state p. 791 40 same sport
[?71] Range of Primrose & cowslip
272 Oaks becoming shrubby below culture level
[illeg] Eastern Broccoli very [illeg] to sport
397 Laburnum sport good case
422 Moss Rose sporting with common
[?69] Rose with 2 coloured flowers both constant
790 [illeg] of Malay Peninsula have Australian forms & allied to Khasigya [mountains]
[??3] Sport Red & White Currants
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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