From John Scott 16 January 1863
Summary
Experiments to cut Laelia stigma from rostellum and then to fertilise rostellum are baffled by "a latent instinctive power". Somehow the pollen-tubes find their way to the style.
Suggests CD study variation in ferns.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3921 |
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- … in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 10 January 1863, p. 30. See n. 3, above. See also letter …
- … 30) was devoted to the examination of orchid structure, particularly the structure of the rostellum and pollen-masses. CD was writing chapter 11 of Variation on ‘bud-variation’, which he began on 21 December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
From John Scott 21 May [1863]
Summary
Supports, in his orchid paper, CD’s view that sterility occurs at random [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
Cannot get his Drosera paper published [abstract in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 17 (1863): 317–18].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 181, DAR 177: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4174 |
From John Scott 18 February [1863]
Summary
Sends Acropera capsule for CD to dissect.
Will try to raise Acropera from seed (never done before in Britain) to examine its sexual forms.
Studying primroses, parthenogenesis, and reproduction of some cryptogams.
Received maize varieties from CD.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3997 |
From John Scott [26 July – 2 August 1863]
Summary
His orchid paper limited because he does not give illustrations from distinct genera.
Discusses the self- and cross-fertility of coloured primrose varieties. Thanks CD for tables of unpublished Primula work.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 July – 2 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4175 |
From John Scott 4 May 1868
Summary
Replies to CD’s query on expression of emotions.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 May 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6160 |
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Summary
Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].
Describes his situation in Calcutta.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4751 |
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- … 30 August 1864 , and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 January 1865] ). Scott sent CD a draft of a paper on Verbascum that he had prepared while sailing to India; CD passed the manuscript on to Hooker for comments, and it was eventually returned to Scott (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 …
