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 |
From Daniel Oliver [1 April 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4443 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 April 1864]
Summary
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4445 |
From Alfred Newton 2 April 1864
Summary
Marvels that seeds from the lump of clay on the partridge’s foot have germinated. At Zoological Society [J. E.?] Gray ridiculed him. Now Frank Buckland would like to see the specimen.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4446 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 April 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4448 |
From Robert Swinhoe 4 April 1864
Summary
Reports on a strange breed of sheep at Aden,
a Brazilian plant naturalised in Ceylon,
the Australian Casuarina equisetum spreading in Taiwan,
and an excrescence on wing of several thrushes of Taiwan similar to a growth on wing of a Syrian species.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 254–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4449 |
From Philip Henry Gosse 5 April 1864
Summary
Asks how he can identify pollen-tubes.
Has succeeded in impregnating orchids of widely different genera with each other’s pollinia. "Is not this something new?"
Offers to exchange Catasetum for other varieties.
Author: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4451 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 April 1864
Summary
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4452 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 6 April 1864?]
Summary
Calculates the relationship between grains and milligrams; asks his mother for a fruit tart and twelve napkins.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 6 Apr 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4453F |
From Alfred Newton 7 April 1864
Summary
CD need not worry about having discarded the partridge’s foot.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4456 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1864
Summary
Men of Scott’s Celtic temperament are very troublesome. Tries to dissuade CD from hiring him as a scientific gardener.
George Rolleston, not Spencer, wrote review of Schleiden [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 187–99].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 206–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4457 |
From E. A. Darwin 9 April [1864]
Summary
Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of surplus specimens; thinks "our progenitors" may well be there.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4458 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 April [1864]
Summary
Observations on [length of style and length of filament and stigmas of] Pulmonaria.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A68–74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4462 |
From John Scott 14 April [1864]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s consoling letter. His mind cannot concentrate after losing his position, and he feels "an inward dread of life’s future". Would have been glad to work for CD. Understands why Hooker cannot recommend him.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4463 |
From T. H. Huxley 18 April 1864
Summary
No doubt that Owen wrote "Oken" and the archetype book, which appeared in its second edition in French.
Pressures of work and family.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 301 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4465 |
From W. E. Darwin 18 April 1864
Summary
CD is right about variability [of Pulmonaria]. Encloses observations and diagrams of additional plants.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A77–81b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4466 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1864
Summary
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 208–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4469 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (202) |
Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
Darwin, E. A. | (12) |