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From John Scott   21 September [1863]

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Sends Primula MS, which CD has promised to communicate to Linnean Society [see 4213].

Will soon send results on peloric Antirrhinum.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Sept [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 96
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4301

Matches: 14 hits

  • … From John Scott   21 September [1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 96 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 21 Sept [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … and n.  17, and letters to John Scott , 24 March [1863] and 7 November [1863] . Scott …
  • … 2 December 1862] . See also Scott 1863a . See letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] . …
  • … following letter. See letters from John Scott , [3 June 1863] and 23 July [1863] . Scott …
  • … of Scott 1864a . See letters to John Scott , 25 and 28 May [1863] and 6 June [1863] . CD …
  • … for CD to give to Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 20 [June 1863] ). …
  • … 1862] ; see also this volume, letters from John Scott , 6 January 1863  and 16 June [ …
  • … 1863] , and letters to John Scott , 6 June [1863] and 20 [June 1863] ). Scott sent CD the …
  • … Scott 1867 . See also letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] . CD had encouraged Scott to …
  • … 1862] ). See also this volume, enclosure to letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 , letters …
  • … from John Scott , 21 March [1863] and n.  4, and 21 May [ …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] . See Correspondence vol.  12, letter from …

From John Scott   [1–11] April [1863]

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Studying self-sterility, particularly in Oncidium, where abortion occurs consistently but stigma functions normally. His hybrid orchid crosses show sterility occurs capriciously. Thus it is not a "special endowment".

Disputes Asa Gray’s and Hermann Crüger’s view of rostellar germination.

Doubts absolute sterility of Catasetum.

Disappointed by results with homomorphic cowslips.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1–11] Apr [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 108: 183, DAR 177: 86 (fragile)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4073

Matches: 28 hits

  • … From John Scott   [1–11] April [1863] …
  • … 177: 86 (fragile) John Scott Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh [1–11] Apr [1863] Charles Robert …
  • … published in the issue for 31 March 1863), and the letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] and n.   …
  • … 4, and letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] and n.  3. …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] and n.   …
  • … 4, and letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] . Scott’s experiments in pollinating species …
  • … 96–101. In his letter to John Scott of 24 March [1863] , CD stated that cowslips raised …
  • … pp.  545–7. See also letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] and n.  5. In his account of …
  • … 260–3. See also letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and n.  10, and Correspondence …
  • … publish his results (see letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] ). In Variation 2: 133, CD …
  • … See also Orchids 2d ed. , p.  289. See letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] . …
  • … See also letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] , and letter to Journal of Horticulture and …
  • … and n.  9. See letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] and nn.  7 and 8. Asa Gray had …
  • … Gray 1862a (see letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 ), Scott discussed Gray’s statement, …
  • … into the tissues’ of the rostellum (see letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] ). …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] . The reference is to Orchids , …
  • … p.  311 (see letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863  and n.  6). See Origin , pp.  260–7. …
  • … pp.  203–10, 231–48, and letter from John Scott, 18 February [1863] and nn.  4 and …
  • … 5). See also letters to John Scott , 21 January [1863] , 20 [February 1863] , and 24  …
  • … March [ 1863] , and letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 . Scott apparently refers to his …
  • … atropurpurea (see letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 ). The reference is to experiments …
  • … 1854a . See also letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and n.  8. CD compared the stigma …
  • … p.  324 n. , and letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] . See n.  13, above. CD’s letter to …
  • … 23 February 1863 . See letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] , and letter from Hermann …
  • … Horticulture , 17  March 1863, pp.  206–8. See letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863 . …
  • … See also letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] . See letter to Journal of Horticulture …
  • John Scott. — | Orchid Portfolio — Rostellum’ ink ; ‘Crüger’ blue crayon End of letter : ‘April.  1863’ …

From John Scott   23 July [1863]

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Discusses heterostyly in Hottonia.

Criticises L. C. Treviranus’ statements on Primula longiflora’s having short-styled form.

Describes his results with crossing different coloured primroses. Will let CD, when he reads his paper, decide whether his finding white and red varieties perfectly sterile when crossed, yet fertile inter se, ought to be published.

Difficulty in getting his orchid paper published in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 July [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 95
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4252

Matches: 21 hits

  • … From John Scott   23 July [1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 95 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 23 July [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … The year is established by the reference to the letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] . …
  • … Letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] . See …
  • … second enclosure to the letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] and n.  9. This individual has …
  • … been found, but see the letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] . See ‘Dimorphic condition in …
  • … self-fertile (see letters from John Scott , 21 May [1863] and [3 June 1863] , and Scott  …
  • … 1864a , pp.  105–10). See letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] and n.  6. …
  • … first enclosure to the letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] and n.  8. ). The reference is …
  • … first enclosure to the letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] and n.  3. The reference is to …
  • … the first enclosure to the letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] and n.  8. Scott refers to …
  • … 1863a , p.  5. See also letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] and n.  2. Scott was foreman …
  • … Edinburgh. See letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 . Scott reported on these crosses in …
  • … Scott 1864a , pp.  97–103. See letter to John Scott, 6 June [1863] . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] and n.  3. There was …
  • … veris ). See also letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] . In his letter to CD of 16 June [ …
  • … species (see letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] and n.  9). The reference is to …
  • … 1863a ; see letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] ). The Edinburgh New Philosophical …
  • … and Charles Black. See letter from John Scott, [26 July – 2 August 1863] . Scott’s letter …
  • John Hutton Balfour . Balfour gave classes in botany, apparently both for students of the University of Edinburgh, and for the staff of the botanic garden (see Fletcher and Brown 1970, pp.  141–3, 146; Transactions and proceedings of the Botanical Society [of Edinburgh] 14 (1863): 160). In his paper ( Scott  …

From John Scott   3 March 1863

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JS criticises natural selection as based on an innate "continuously watchful selective principle".

Seeks seed of wild Rocky Mountain maize.

What is CD’s view on origin of maize?

Seeks information on self-sterility of Passiflora and Lobelia.

Weeping habit of trees.

Intended to say bisexual plants presented more established varieties than unisexual, not that they are more variable.

Explains his opinion that homomorphically fertilised Primula will produce only their own form. Is trying homomorphic crosses with different coloured Primula varieties.

Asks to read Asa Gray’s 2d review of Orchids.

Has finally successfully fertilised Gongora, but it was done by unnatural means.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1863
Classmark:  DAR 108: 179
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4021

Matches: 20 hits

  • … From John Scott   3 March 1863
  • … DAR 108: 179 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 3 Mar 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] . …
  • … February [1863] . A.  Gray 1862a . See letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  5. …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  6. In his letters to Scott of 11  …
  • … and inheritance in plants (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  12). …
  • … subject, see the letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863 , n.  11. By ‘bisexual’ Scott …
  • … CD’s response, see the letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 . In Orchids , pp.  236–47, CD …
  • … January 1862 . See letter from John Scott, 18 February [1863] . In a missing letter, Scott …
  • … in plants (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  12). This subject had been …
  • … 8, above, and letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863  and n.  11); however, the planned …
  • … paper was apparently never published. See letter from John Scott, 18 February [1863] , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 20 [February 1863] . CD cited William Alexander Wooler’s case of …
  • … and this volume, letter to John Scott, 20 [February 1863] ). See Correspondence vol.   …
  • … Scott 1864a ; see letters from John Scott, 21 May [1863] , [3 June 1863] , and 23 July [ …
  • … 1863] ). See letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] , and Scott 1864a , pp.  97–103. Scott …
  • John Scott, 6 December [1862] . See n.  13, above. Scott experimented extensively with species of Primula during 1863, …

From John Scott   16 June [1863]

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Orchid paper in press.

Asks CD to correct MS of his Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126].

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 June [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4213

Matches: 15 hits

  • … From John Scott   16 June [1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 94 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 16 June [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … this volume, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 ). The results of Scott’s experiments …
  • … this letter and the letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] . In his letter to CD of 22 May  …
  • … Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter to John Scott, 23 May [1863] ). CD had also offered to …
  • … 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] ). Scott 1863a . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] and n.  14. …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] and n.  2. …
  • … See letters to John Scott, 31 May [1863] and 6 June [ …
  • … 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 6 June [1863] . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] . Scott was foreman of the propagating department …
  • … Scott 1864a . See letter to John Scott, 6 June [1863] . The results of Scott’s experiments …
  • … of one of Scott’s papers (see letters to John Scott , 25 and 28 May [1863] and 31 May [ …

From John Scott   [3 June 1863]

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Thanks CD for influence used with Hooker to obtain a colonial position. Has offended J. H. Balfour by refusing the Darjeeling post and James McNab has become unfriendly, although his experiments do not detract from his garden work.

Will write Primula paper for Linnean Society as CD suggests.

His Darwinism is unpalatable at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

Describes results with non-dimorphic Primula species. Such cases do not accord with CD’s view that characters are slowly acquired.

Thanks for criticism of his writing style.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [3 June 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 93
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4202

Matches: 25 hits

  • … From John Scott   [3 June 1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 93 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens [3 June 1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 14, above, and letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] . The abstract of Scott 1863a published …
  • … between this letter, the letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] , and the letter to J.  D.   …
  • … See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . See n.   …
  • … the reference is to the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] (see n.  3, below). CD …
  • … May [ 1863] . See letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and n.  24. John Hutton Balfour …
  • … to recommend him (see letters from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and 26 May [1863] , and n.  6, …
  • … overseer (see letters from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and 26 May [1863] ). As curator of the …
  • … Scott’s immediate superior. See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , letter from J.  D.   …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , n.  3. …
  • … the enclosure to the letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] , and …
  • … Society [of Edinburgh] ( Scott 1863a ; see letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] ). …
  • … See letters to John Scott, 23 May [1863] and 25 and 28 May [1863] . Scott paraphrases …
  • … 1864a , pp.  92–7. See letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] , and Scott 1864a , pp.  105– …
  • … in Scott 1864a , pp.  91–2. See n.  14, above, and letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 28 May [1863] , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] . In Origin , p.  98, CD cited his observations of …
  • … Hooker, [23–7 May 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [ 1863] . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . In December 1862, CD had, at Scott’s …
  • … 1862] and 19 December [1862] ). See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . See …
  • … letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] and n.  2; Scott’s observations were published …
  • … ibid. , p.  47). See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Scott sent CD a list of …
  • … refers to Karl Friedrich von Gärtner . See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . …

From John Scott   21 March [1863]

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Thanks for CD’s answers on Passiflora

and Asa Gray review.

Has observed gradation of sterility in Oncidium species.

Has observed rostellar germination and fertilisation in Laelia. The latter was prevented in Bletia by covering the stigma with plaster of Paris.

Gongora atropurpurea capsules are swelling.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 85
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4055

Matches: 11 hits

  • … From John Scott   21 March [1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 85 John Scott unstated 21 Mar [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863  and n.  1. …
  • … See the enclosure to the letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 . …
  • … See also letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863  and n.  4. Scott published his observations …
  • … show its real functional condition’ ( see letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863 ). …
  • … Gongora , see letters from John Scott , 6 January 1863  and 3 March 1863 . In his letter …
  • … to sow. See letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and nn.  3 and 4. In ‘Fertilization of …
  • … A.  Gray 1862a (see letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 ). In A.  Gray 1862a , p.  426, Asa …
  • … and this volume, letters from John Scott , 6 January 1863  and 16 January 1863 . In his …

From John Scott   7 January [1864]

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Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].

Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Jan [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4382

Matches: 21 hits

  • … 1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). …
  • … this letter and the letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ( Correspondence vol.  11), …
  • … memoir’ (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] , letter …
  • … to John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and letter from …
  • … Emma Darwin to John Scott, 19 November [1863] ). There are annotated copies of the …
  • … his own results (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] , and …
  • … letter to John Scott 25 [July 1863] ). For Scott’s ‘excluded discussion’, see n.  15, …
  • … vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] ). The letter in which Scott mentioned the …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and letter from …
  • … Emma Darwin to John Scott, 19 November [1863] and n.  4). In the last two paragraphs of …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letters from John Scott , [3 June 1863] and 16 June [1863] ). CD …
  • … vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ); in ‘Dimorphic condition in …
  • … 3 December [1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] ). …
  • … vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ). He had briefly compared the two …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] and n.  4). CD evidently did …
  • … Edinburgh Courant , 19 December 1863, p.  8. John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 7 Jan [ …
  • … vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] ). CD had first encouraged Scott to …
  • … In his letter to John Scott of 25 and 28 May [1863] ( Correspondence vol.  11), he wrote …
  • … to John Scott, 3 December [1862] ). Scott and CD corresponded frequently throughout 1863  …
  • John Scott, 9 January 1864 ). Scott began experimenting with a non-dimorphic cowslip in May 1863 ( …
  • Scott 1864a , p.  97 n. ). Although Scott had started experimenting with Verbascum at CD’s suggestion in 1863, his work was evidently at too early a stage to be of use (see, for example, Correspondence vol.  10, letter to John

From John Scott   26 May [1863]

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Discusses Darjeeling position. Thanks CD for advice.

Will send orchid paper [see 4087].

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 May [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 91
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4187

Matches: 9 hits

  • … From John Scott   26 May [1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 91 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 26 May [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 May [1863] , and letter to John Scott, 23 May [1863] . …
  • … by the relationship between this letter, the letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , and the …
  • … letter to John Scott, 23 May [1863] . …
  • … Letter to John Scott, 23 May [1863] . John Hutton Balfour , professor of botany at …
  • … India (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 ). Thomas Anderson was superintendent of …
  • … cultivation at Darjeeling , p.  646). See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and n.   …
  • … 5. Letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] . Scott read a paper entitled ‘Experiments on the …

From John Scott   [after 12] April [1863]

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Thanks for CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Has not published much because he would be ignored as a gardener; hence he is looking for a foreign appointment.

Has prepared orchid sterility paper at CD’s suggestion [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 12] Apr [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 87
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4087

Matches: 10 hits

  • … From John Scott   [after 12] April [1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 87 John Scott unstated [after 12] Apr [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … of 6 January 1863 , looked ‘very sick’ (see letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] ). …
  • … the relationship between this letter, the letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] , and the …
  • … letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] . ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ . Scott’s name …
  • … 11, Appendix IV). See letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] . Scott was foreman of the …
  • … 14 April 1863] ). See letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] and n.  17. Scott and CD had …
  • … pollinated Gongora atropurpurea. See also letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] . CD cited Scott’s observations on the fertilisation …
  • … letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 ). In his letter of 3 March 1863 , Scott noted …

From John Scott   [26 July – 2 August 1863]

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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

Matches: 12 hits

  • … From John Scott   [26 July – 2 August 1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 89 John Scott unstated [26 July – 2 Aug 1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … letter to John Scott, 6 June [1863] . The reference has not been identified; neither Linum …
  • … this letter and the letters to John Scott , 25 [July 1863] , and 1 and 3 August [1863] . …
  • … 1863a . See also letters to John Scott , 25 [July 1863] , and 1 and 3 August [1863] . The …
  • … Desmond 1994 ). See letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] and n.  12. In his paper, Scott …
  • … and expanded the argument given here. See letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] and n.  5. …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 20 [June 1863] and n.  8. Scott described his experiments with …
  • … pp.  222–5. See letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] and n.  6. Scott refers to the …
  • … 1864a , p.  103, and letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] ). CD’s results are reported …
  • … in Scott 1864a , p.  103. See letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, [3  June 1863] , and …

From John Scott   18 February [1863]

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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

Matches: 10 hits

  • … From John Scott   18 February [1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 84 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 18 Feb [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … between this letter and the letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 . Scott’s letter …
  • … however, see the letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  3. Dehiscence is the …
  • … and this volume, letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863 . In his letter to Scott of 16  …
  • … of North American maize seeds (see letter to John Scott, 16  February [1863] and n.  9). …
  • … n.  4, above, letter to John Scott, 20 [February 1863] , and ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , …
  • … and reproduction (see letters to John Scott , 21 January [1863] and 16 February [ …
  • … 1863] , and letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 ). See also n.  9, below. In his letter …
  • … 1862] ). See also letters to John Scott , 16 February [1863] and 20 [February 1863] . In a …

From John Scott   21 May [1863]

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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

Matches: 13 hits

  • … From John Scott   21 May [1863] …
  • … 181, DAR 177: 88 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 21 May [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 14 May 1863. See letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] and n.  4. …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] and n.  5. Scott read a paper on the propagation …
  • … May [1863] . See also letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] and n.  19. In Thomas Henry …
  • … pp.  92–7. See also letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . Scott’s observations on and …
  • … evidence, were published in Scott 1864d . See letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] . …
  • … See also letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] . See n.  12, above. The manuscript of the …
  • … was based on experiments described in the letter from John Scott, [1–11] April 1863 . …
  • … rhizophorae (see letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] and n.  2). For a list of …
  • … 1864a . See also letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . CD had suggested in 1862  …
  • Scott sent CD an abstract of the paper with his letter of 28 May [1863] (see n.  9, below). John Hutton Balfour was professor of botany at Edinburgh University and one of the vice-presidents of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh ( DNB , Medical directory for Scotland 1863); …

From John Scott   28 May [1863]

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Sends abstract from Edinburgh Courant of his orchid sterility paper [see 4087]. Balfour altered title to obscure its theoretical nature.

Sends specimens showing curious variation.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 May [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 92
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4190

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  • … From John Scott   28 May [1863] …
  • … DAR 177: 92 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 28 May [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … send examples of bud-variation (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  7). …
  • … p.  558. See also letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . Scott’s paper was entitled ‘ …
  • … see letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 ). Scott published his observations on sterility in …
  • … 2: 137–8. See also letter to John Scott, 31 May [ 1863] and n.  7. Lobelia fulgens is a …
  • … of L. cardinalis . See letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] . The reference is to a letter …
  • John Scott, 19 November [1862] and 11 December [1862] and n.  21). He sent further information to assist Scott in his experiments on Passiflora in March 1863 ( …
  • 1863, p.  8). The paper demonstrated the sterility of several species of Oncidium when flowers were pollinated with pollen from the same plant (‘individual sterility’), and also showed that the same plants could be successfully fertilised when pollinated with pollen from a different species of Oncidium . As regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, John Hutton Balfour was Scott’ …

From John Scott   22 May 1863

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J. H. Balfour has arranged a position for him at a Cinchona nursery. Reluctant to take this position in part because of his experiments for CD.

Asks CD’s advice and solicits his aid in finding a better colonial position. James McNab mistreats him.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 May 1863
Classmark:  DAR 177: 90
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4177

Matches: 6 hits

  • … From John Scott   22 May 1863
  • … to G.  H.  K.  Thwaites, 15 June [1862] , n.  4). See letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] . …
  • … DAR 177: 90 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 22 May 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … and this volume, letters to John Scott , 12 April [1863] and 25 and 28 May [1863] . Scott’ …
  • … of Oncidium (see letters from John Scott , 3 March 1863 , 21 March [1863] , [1–11] April [ …
  • … crosses (see letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and n.  10). For CD’s encouragement …

From John Scott   16 January 1863

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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

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From John Scott   16 January 1863
  • … DAR 177: 82 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 16 Jan 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 1863, p.  30. See n.  3, above. See also letter to John Scott, 21 January [1863] . A.   …
  • … Gray 1862a . See letter to John Scott, 21 January [1863] and n.  11. See n.   …
  • … 8, above. See also letter to John Scott, 21 January [1863] . …
  • … bud-variation’”. Letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 . CD mentioned ferns in Variation …
  • … from John Scott, 17 December [1862] ( ibid. ). In his letter to CD of 6 January 1863 , …

From J. D. Hooker   [23–7 May 1863]

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Encloses his notions [missing] on John Scott’s offer; some points in explanation.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23–7 May 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 141–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4134

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Scott’s dispute with McNab, see the letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 . Scott wished to …
  • … lectures (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and n.  3). The letter appears to be a …
  • … directory 1863). See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …
  • … Hutton Balfour . See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and n.  1. Thomas Anderson was …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 23 May [1863] , and the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Since …
  • … was sent with the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Attempts by the British to …

From John Scott   28 March 1864

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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

Matches: 9 hits

  • … letter to Scott of 25 and 28 May [1863] . See also letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] . …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  11, letters from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and 26 May [1863] . …
  • … See also ibid. , letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . Hooker sent a note to CD with his …
  • … and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] and nn.  5 and 6; see also …
  • … vol.  11, letters from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and 3 March 1863 . See also letter from …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863  and n.  15. Scott sent his …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] and nn.  2–6 and 10). …
  • John Scott, 19 March 1864  and n.  9. The article by Isaac Anderson -Henry has not been found in the Scottish Farmer ; however, see Anderson-Henry 1867 , p.  2. An annotated copy of Anderson-Henry 1867  is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.  In 1863, …
  • 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11). He reported his failure to pollinate the plant in Scott 1864c , pp.  199–200 n. For CD’s suggestions for Scott’s research, see, for example, Correspondence vol.  10, first enclosure to letter to John

From John Scott   6 January 1863

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Sends Primula scotica and P. farinosa.

So far cannot fertilise Gongora atropurpurea although it is similar to Acropera luteola.

Experimenting on intergeneric hybrids to test CD’s view that sterility is not a special endowment.

Scott’s personal history.

Acropera capsule grows.

Plans for experiments CD has suggested on Primula, peloric Antirrhinum, and Verbascum.

Asks about Gärtner’s experiments on maize.

Aware of Anderson-Henry’s failures.

Through kindness of J. H. Balfour and James McNab, enjoys facilities for research. JS is in charge of the propagating department. Balfour almost engaged him to be superintendent of the Madras Horticultural Garden.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Jan 1863
Classmark:  DAR 177: 81, 83
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3904

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From John Scott   6 January 1863
  • … DAR 177: 81, 83 John Scott unstated 6 Jan 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 20 [February 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] ). The note is with Scott’s …
  • … p.  107). See letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] and nn.  10–11. With encouragement …
  • … Meconopsis. See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . In his letter to John Scott, …
  • … 5 [and 6] January [1863] and n.  22). In his letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ( …
  • John Scott, 6 December [1862] and 17 December [1862] . In his letter of 26–7 January 1863 , …

From John Scott   [13 January 1864]

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Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.

Sends promised Linum seeds.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [13 Jan 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4385

Matches: 5 hits

  • … May (see, for example, Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 , and …
  • … letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] ). Scott published his findings in Scott 1864d . By …
  • … vol.  11, letters from John Scott , [26 July – 2 August 1863] and 21 September [ …
  • … 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] . …
  • John Scott, 11 December [1862] , and Origin , pp.  250–1). Scott and CD continued discussing Passiflora in 1863, …
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