To John Scott 23 May [1863]
Summary
Has written to Hooker for his advice about the Darjeeling position. JS should not refuse the position on account of his experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B15–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4183 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Scott, John …
- … r . Hooker; but rather suppose that he would feel bound to recommend anyone whom he had known at Kew. — I have only glanced at your scientific letter; but I see it contains much interesting to me. — Do not expect to interest many others equally; but rely firmly on it, that such experimental researches as yours will have a permanent value, & will be referred to years afterwards, when the endless flimsy papers of the present day are forgotten— Yours faithfully. | C. Darwin …
To Roland Trimen 23 May [1863]
Summary
CD has drawn up a paper from RT’s orchid notes on the fertilisation of Disa grandiflora for the Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 7 (1863): 144–7].
CD would welcome seeds of any Cape Oxalis for his investigation of dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4179 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 May [1863]
Summary
Seeks advice for John Scott on job offer in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4180 |
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1863]
Summary
Health has been poor but eczema is improved.
A "squib" about Owen and Huxley on the brain has appeared in Public Opinion [3 (1863): 497–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 139) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4181 |
From J. D. Hooker [23–7 May 1863]
Summary
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 |
From L. E. Becker 23–4 May [1863]
Summary
Gives the results of her observations on Lychnis; lists four different types of flower present and their occurrence.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23–4 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4182 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (1) |
