From Thomas Rivers 6 July 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].
Encloses sketch of a climbing French bean.
Tells of a row of non-climbing haricot beans that in good season put out slender climbing shoots.
He has the peach almond in fruit this season.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4866 |
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1865
Summary
Will forward Robert Caspary’s paper to CD when it is published ["Sur les hybrides obtenus par la greffe", Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80].
MTM is to become editor of Gardeners’ Chronicle.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4871 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
From W. E. Darwin [14 July 1865]
Summary
Wants to borrow money to buy stock in the bridge over the Itchen.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873F |
From T. H. Huxley 16 July 1865
Summary
Did not intend to persuade CD against publishing Pangenesis. Will not take the responsibility, nor risk being made a horrible example 50 years hence.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 309 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4875 |
From John Scott 21 July 1865
Summary
JS has now taken post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Wishes to vindicate himself of the charge that he pursued his experiments at Edinburgh to the detriment of his work.
Apologises for poor quality of his Verbascum paper, which was written from his notes during the passage to India [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 36 (1865) pt 2: 145–74].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: B120a–b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4876 |
From Asa Gray 24 July 1865
Summary
Is reading CD’s "Climbing plants".
The Civil War is ended; slavery is dead.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4877 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
