From E. A. Darwin [after 31 March 1864?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 31 Mar 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4364 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 [March] 1864
Summary
Reception of Scott’s paper.
Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.
Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.
Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.
Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.
Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 [Mar] 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 189–92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4404 |
From William Erasmus Darwin [15 March 1864]
Summary
Has drawn all three forms of primroses CD sent "with same result". Has found no pink variety with middle style.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 85, 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4416 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 31 March 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 31 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 81, 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4417 |
From Daniel Oliver [17 March 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4418 |
From Frederick Ransome 7 March 1864
Summary
Acknowledges cancelled bond and thanks CD for declining to accept interest. Suggests 4 Mar 1865 as date for payment of the bill CD holds.
Author: | Frederick Ransome |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4421 |
From John Scott 10 March 1864
Summary
Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4423 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 March 1864
Summary
Discusses homologies of plant organs.
The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4425 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 March 1864
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4428 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 18 March [1864]
Summary
Has six months’ leave from the Admiralty because of his health; intends going to Europe for four months.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4431 |
From John Scott 19 March 1864
Summary
On fertilisation of Gongora.
His work on peloric Antirrhinum, Passiflora, and Verbascum, done at CD’s suggestion, is at CD’s disposal.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4432 |
From W. E. Darwin 22 March [1864]
Summary
Sends drawings of the pollen from Chinese Primula plants with styles and pistils of different lengths; observations on sizes and condition of their pollen.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 86–7, 175–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4434 |
From John Scott 28 March 1864
Summary
Surprised at CD’s account of Bryanthus.
H. Crüger’s approach to Gongora fertilisation is beset with difficulties.
Reports his work on self-sterility of Oncidium.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4438 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
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 |
letter | (15) |
Becker, L. E. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Ransome, Frederick | (1) |
Scott, John | (3) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Scott, John | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |