From John Scott 21 September [1863]
Summary
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. 4, and 21 May [1863] and n. 17, and letters to John Scott , 24 March [1863] and …
- … 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 …
- … give to Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] , and letter to …
- … this volume, letters from John Scott , 6 January 1863 and 16 June [1863] , and letters to …
- … Scott 1867 . See also letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] . CD had encouraged Scott to …
- … volume, enclosure to letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 , letters from John Scott , 21 …
- … John Scott, 20 [June 1863] ). See letter to John Scott, 1 and …
- … 1863] . Scott published the results of his experiments with Passiflora in Scott 1864d . See Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John …
- … 3 August [1863] . See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, [13 January 1864] . …
- … 1863] ). Scott sent CD the results from his experiments in 1864, but they differed from CD’s own, and were not included in Variation (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from John …
From John Scott 23 July [1863]
Summary
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: 16 hits
- … From John Scott 23 July [1863] …
- … DAR 177: 95 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 23 July [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 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 …
- … pp. 105–10). See letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] . See letter to John Scott, 2 July [ …
- … The year is established by the reference to the letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] . …
- … 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 …
- … 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] . …
- … 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 …
- … Scott, 2 July [1863] . See the second enclosure to the letter to John Scott, 2 July [1863] …
- … Scott, 25 [July 1863] and n. 3. There was a purpose-built classroom at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, for the use of the keeper, John …
From John Scott 3 March 1863
Summary
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: 19 hits
- … From John Scott 3 March 1863 …
- … DAR 108: 179 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 3 Mar 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … February [1863] and n. 5. See letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] . See …
- … letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 , and letter to John Scott, 16 …
- … See letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n. 6. In his letters to Scott of 11 …
- … February [1863] . See letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] . …
- … 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 …
- … 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 [ …
- … published. See letter from John Scott, 18 February [1863] , and letter to John Scott, 20 [ …
- … 21 January [1863] and 16 February [1863] . A. Gray 1862a . See letter to John Scott, 16 …
- … John Scott, 6 December [1862] . See n. 13, above. Scott experimented extensively with species of Primula during 1863, …
- … 1863] . CD cited William Alexander Wooler’s case of polyanthuses that produced long-styled flowers late, but not early, in the season in ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ , p. 79 ( Collected papers 2: 47). On Scott’s interest in vegetable parthenogenesis, see Scott 1862a and Correspondence vol. 10, letters from John …
- … 1863] , seed of a cultivated variety of maize provided by Asa Gray . Barr & Sugden was a firm of London nurserymen with premises at 12 King Street, Covent Garden. Scott refers to CD’s discussion in Origin , pp. 250–1, of plants that could be ‘far more easily fertilised by the pollen of another and distinct species, than by their own pollen’. At CD’s suggestion, Scott decided to carry out additional experiments on sterility and hybridisation in Passiflora (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John …
From John Scott 16 June [1863]
Summary
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: 14 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. …
- … 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 [ …
- … 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 …
- … See letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] and n. 2. See letters to John Scott, 31 …
From John Scott [3 June 1863]
Summary
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: 23 hits
- … From John Scott [3 June 1863] …
- … DAR 177: 93 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens [3 June 1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … between this letter, the letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] , and the letter to J. D. …
- … the reference is to the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] (see n. 3, below). CD …
- … 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. …
- … Scott 1863a ; see letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] ). See letters to John Scott, 23 …
- … 1864a , pp. 92–7. See letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] , and Scott 1864a , pp. 105– …
- … Scott 1864a , pp. 91–2. See n. 14, above, and letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] . See …
- … letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] , and letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] and …
- … May [1863] , and letter to John Scott, 31 …
- … Gärtner . See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . See letter from John Scott, [1– …
- … 19 December [1862] ). See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . See the enclosure …
- … ibid. , p. 47). See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Scott sent CD a list of …
- … 1863] , with his letter to Scott of 25 and 28 May [ 1863] . See letter from John Scott, 6 …
- … 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [ 1863] . See letter from John Scott, 22 …
- … letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] . See letter from John Scott, 28 …
- … 11] April [1863] . See n. 14, above, and letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] . The …
- … May 1863 , n. 3. See letter to John Scott, 25 and …
- … 1863] . In December 1862, CD had, at Scott’s request, suggested numerous experiments for Scott to attempt (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters from John …
- … 1863 and n. 24. John Hutton Balfour was keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, where Scott …
- … 1863] . In Origin , p. 98, CD cited his observations of dichogamy in Lobelia fulgens (a synonym of L. cardinalis ) as evidence that there were ‘special contrivances’ in many plants that prevented the stigma ‘receiving pollen from its own flower’. See also Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, …
From John Scott [1–11] April [1863]
Summary
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: 25 hits
- … From John Scott [1–11] April [1863] …
- … 177: 86 (fragile) John Scott Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh [1–11] Apr [1863] Charles Robert …
- … 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 …
- … Gray 1862a (see letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 ), Scott discussed Gray’s statement, …
- … the rostellum (see letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] ). See letter from John Scott, …
- … p. 311 (see letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863 and n. 6). See Origin , pp. 260–7. …
- … atropurpurea (see letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 ). The reference is to experiments …
- … p. 324 n. , and letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] . See n. 13, above. CD’s letter to …
- … 1863] , and 24 March [ 1863] , and letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 . Scott apparently …
- … April [1863] . See letter from John Scott, 21 …
- … March [1863] and n. 4, and letter to John Scott, 24 …
- … March [1863] and n. 4, and letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] . Scott’s experiments in …
- … March 1863] (published in the issue for 31 March 1863), and the letter to John Scott, 12 …
- … January 1863 . See also letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] . See letter to Journal of …
- … March [1863] and n. 3. See letter from John Scott, 21 …
- … John Scott. — | Orchid Portfolio — Rostellum’ ink ; ‘Crüger’ blue crayon End of letter : ‘April. 1863’ …
- … the Journal of Horticulture , 17 March 1863, pp. 206–8. See letter from John Scott, 16 …
- … 18 February [1863] and nn. 4 and 5). See also letters to John Scott , 21 January [1863] , …
- … 1863]. See also letter from Hermann Crüger, 23 February 1863 . See letter to John Scott, …
- … 1863] , and letter to Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener , [17–24 March 1863] and n. 9. See letter from John Scott, …
- … 1863] and n. 7. CD began experimenting in 1862 with the unopening, ‘imperfect’ flowers of Viola and Oxalis ; these appeared at different times of the year from the larger, opening flowers (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] and n. 5, and letter from John …
From John Scott 7 January [1864]
Summary
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: 18 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), …
- … Edinburgh Courant , 19 December 1863, p. 8. John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 7 Jan [ …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] , letter to John …
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] , and letter to …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and letter from Emma …
- … 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 …
- … and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] ). In his letter to John …
- … 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 …
- … vol. 11, letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] ). CD had first encouraged Scott to …
- … Scott, 7 November [1863] , and letter from Emma Darwin to John Scott, 19 November [ …
- … cowslip in May 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] ). …
- … 1863, his work was evidently at too early a stage to be of use (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, …
- … to John Scott, 3 December [1862] ). Scott and CD corresponded frequently throughout 1863 …
- … 1863, p. 8, is reproduced as enclosure 2. As regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, John Hutton Balfour was Scott’ …
- … 1863] ). For Scott’s ‘excluded discussion’, see n. 15, below. Scott refers to enclosure 1. CD evidently did not write the footnote for Scott 1864a (see n. 17, below); as a result of illness and his conviction that the paper was ready for publication, he urged Scott to allow him to send it to the Linnean Society as it was (see letter from Emma Darwin to John …
From John Scott 21 March [1863]
Summary
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: 9 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 …
- … condition’ ( see letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863 ). On Gongora , see letters from …
- … 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 …
- … March 1863 . See also letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 and n. 4. Scott published his …
- … to John Scott, 6 March 1863 and n. 1. See the enclosure to the letter to John Scott, 6 …
From John Scott 26 May [1863]
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4187 |
Matches: 8 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] . …
- … between this letter, the letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , and the letter to …
- … India (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 ). Thomas Anderson was superintendent of …
- … p. 646). See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 and n. 5. Letter from John Scott, 21 …
- … John Scott, 23 May [1863] . Letter to John Scott, 23 …
- … 1863] . John Hutton Balfour , professor of botany at Edinburgh University and keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, had offered Scott …
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 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From John Scott [26 July – 2 August 1863] …
- … DAR 177: 89 John Scott unstated [26 July – 2 Aug 1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 6 June [1863] . The reference …
- … 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 …
From John Scott [after 12] April [1863]
Summary
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: 8 hits
- … From John Scott [after 12] April [1863] …
- … DAR 177: 87 John Scott unstated [after 12] Apr [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter, the letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] , and the letter to John Scott, 2 …
- … 11, Appendix IV). See letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] . Scott was foreman of the …
- … atropurpurea. See also letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] , and letter to John Scott, …
- … of 6 January 1863 , looked ‘very sick’ (see letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] ). …
- … letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 ). In his letter of 3 March 1863 , Scott noted …
- … 1863 , and letter to Daniel Oliver, [after 14 April 1863] ). See letter to John Scott, 12 …
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 |
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 17 December [1862] , and this volume, letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863 . In …
- … n. 4, above, letter to John Scott, 20 [February 1863] , and ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , …
- … reproduction (see letters to John Scott , 21 January [1863] and 16 February [1863] , and …
- … 1862] ). See also letters to John Scott , 16 February [1863] and 20 [February 1863] . In a …
- … 1863] , CD sent specimens of North American maize seeds (see letter to John Scott, 16 …
- … 1863] , CD stated: ‘It is more likely that I have made some dreadful blunder about Acropera than that it sh d be male not yet a perfect male’. Throughout 1860 and 1861, CD had carried out a study of flower dimorphism and reproduction in Primula ; he read his paper on the subject, ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ , before the Linnean Society on 21 November 1861. CD continued to work on the subject during 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, …
From John Scott 22 May 1863
Summary
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 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 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From John Scott 21 May [1863] …
- … 181, DAR 177: 88 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 21 May [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … pp. 92–7. See also letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . Scott’s observations on and …
- … in Scott 1864d . See letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] . See also letter to John Scott, …
- … 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 …
- … before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 14 May 1863. See letter to John Scott, 2 …
- … May [1863] . See letter to John Scott, 2 …
- … letter to CD of 28 May [1863] . See also letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] and n. …
- … May [1863] and n. 4. See letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] and n. 5. Scott read a paper …
- … Scott sent CD an abstract of the paper with his letter of 28 May [1863] (see n. 9, below). John …
From John Scott 28 May [1863]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … 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). …
- … 2: 137–8. See also letter to John Scott, 31 May [ 1863] and n. 7. Lobelia fulgens is a …
- … Scott in his experiments on Passiflora in March 1863 (see letter from John Scott, 3 …
- … March 1863 , and letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 ). Scott published his observations on …
- … Chronicle , 13 June 1863, p. 558. See also letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . Scott’ …
- … 1863]. CD had encouraged Scott to experiment with Passiflora and Lobelia to provide data on plants more easily fertilised by the pollen of another species than by their own pollen (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to John …
- … 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 to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863]
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4307 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From John Scott to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863] …
- … DAR 177: 97 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 25 Sept [1863] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … the letters from Emma Darwin to John Scott , 23 September [1863] and 24 September [1863] . …
- … which he had sent to CD for comment (see letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). …
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 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From John Scott 16 January 1863 …
- … DAR 177: 82 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 16 Jan 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … p. 30. See n. 3, above. See also letter to John Scott, 21 January [1863] . A. Gray …
- … bud-variation’”. Letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 . CD mentioned ferns in Variation …
- … January [1863] and n. 11. See n. 8, above. See also letter to John Scott, 21 January [ …
- … from John Scott, 17 December [1862] ( ibid. ). In his letter to CD of 6 January 1863 , …
- … 1863 has not been found; see CD’s annotations to that letter for an indication of his reply. In his letter to Scott of 3 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD asked Scott to try to split the labellum of a Cattleya , or an allied orchid, and place a single pollen-mass on the ‘large tongue-like Rostellum’, which CD thought was a modified stigma. CD wondered whether the rostellum retained ‘some of its primordial function of being penetrated by pollen-tubes’. With the closely related Laelia anceps soon flowering, Scott chose to work with this species instead (see ibid. , letters from John …
From John Scott 6 January 1863
Summary
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 …
- … Daniel Oliver, 20 [February 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] ). The note …
- … 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 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 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from John Scott, 22 May 1863 and 26 May [1863] . See …
- … 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 …
- … letter to Scott of 25 and 28 May [1863] . See also letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] . …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] and nn. 2–6 and 10). …
- … 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 …
- … 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, …
From John Scott [13 January 1864]
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4385 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … for example, Correspondence vol. 11, letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 , and letter from …
- … vol. 11, letters from John Scott , [26 July – 2 August 1863] and 21 September [1863] , …
- … John Scott, 11 December [1862] , and Origin , pp. 250–1). Scott and CD continued discussing Passiflora in 1863, …
- … 1863] ). Scott published his findings in Scott 1864d . By March, Scott had resigned his position at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and was staying with friends at Denholm, Scotland, his birthplace (see letter from John …
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