To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1863]1
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8th.
My dear Hooker.—
As you say you like to see Asa Gray’s letter, I send enclosed de rebus omnibus:2 it is atrociously written. The coolness of the poor dear man about England & U. States in the last two pages beats anything— Please return letter sometime.—
John Scott of Edinburgh is very grateful for your most kind letter of advice.3 He says Balfour is offended with him for refusing the Darjeeling offer.4 He tells me that he is sure that he has never lost any time over his experiments, & that it is not on this account that Mr. Macnab is offended with him & he cannot conjecture what the cause is.5 He takes my preachment very well & declares he will do all he can to please him.— I send a slip containing some of his experiments, but it is very badly arranged & difficult to make out, & the poor fellow sees it now I have told him very plainly.6
I have told him to send me his paper on Primula crosses & if it seems good, I will communicate it to Linn. Soc; for such an abstract as this does not do justice to his work.7
As I have bothered you thus far, I will bother you a little more by enclosing a M.S. note of Scott’s about closing of stigma in orchids, dependent on affinity of pollen & independent of protrusion of pollen-tubes.8 This is not noticed in abstract, & he tells me he believes the Bot. Soc. will publish only the enclosed abstract.9
Forgive me | Yours affect | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".
John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.
Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4207
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 115: 158
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4207,” accessed on 17 August 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4207.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11