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: 3 hits
- … flowers (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] and n. 5, …
- … 10, Appendix VI. Scott’s experiments with species of Maxillaria are described in Scott 1863a , p. 549. CD encouraged Scott to publish his results (see letter to John Scott, 12 …
- … 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 pollination experiments with Gongora truncata , the difficulty and ultimate success of which he reported in his letter to CD of [after 12] …
To William Forsell Kirby 9 July [1863]
Summary
CD is particularly struck by WFK’s observations on Corsican and N. American subspecies in his paper ["On the geographical distribution of European Rhopalocera", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d ser. 1 (1862–3): [!?bib has 1862–4] 481–92]. Thinks it would be interesting for WFK to examine specimens from the Shetland Islands, for even faint trace of differentiation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Forsell Kirby |
Date: | 9 July [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4237 |
From Asa Gray 21 July 1863
Summary
Gives some observations on Drosera.
Comments on Richard Owen’s "transmutation theory" in his aye-aye paper [Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 5 (1866): 33–101].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 128, 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4248 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 12 and 16 July 1863, there were extensive riots in New York City against conscription into the Union army; the majority of the rioters were immigrants from Ireland ( McPherson 1988 , pp. 609–10). …
- … 12. Gray had sent CD observations on and seed of the dimorphic species Houstonia caerulea in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). …
- … 10). CD had also corresponded with Gray concerning his experiments on Dionaea muscipula (Venus’s fly-trap), in which the leaf movements that trap insects are relatively rapid (see Correspondence vols. 8 and 9). See letter to Asa Gray, 26 June [1863] and nn. 12 …
To John Scott 16 February [1863]
Summary
Tells JS Acropera capsule should be left to grow.
JS was correct on "bud-variation" in fern frond.
Does not believe Primula structure necessarily related to dioecism, but the difference in fertility of the two forms forced him to admit the possibility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B55, B81–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3991 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 and n. 3, and letter to John Scott, 12 …
- … 10). Scott gave a more detailed account of his views on variability in hermaphrodite and diclinous plants in his letter of 3 March 1863 . See also letters from John Scott, 16 January 1863 , n. 11, and 3 March 1863 , n. 8. See also n. 12, …
- … 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 , letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] , and letter from John Scott, [20 November – 2 December 1862] . James McNab was curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and Scott’s immediate superior ( R. Desmond 1994 ); Scott was foreman in the propagating department. CD was preparing a draft of chapter 12 …
To G. H. K. Thwaites 29 July [1863]
Summary
Thanks GHKT for Limnanthemum seed.
Comments on his view of algal reproduction.
Discusses flower of Cassia.
Sends photograph of himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 29 July [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.295) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4256 |
To John Scott 2 May [1863]
Summary
Impressed by JS’s attempts to fertilise Gongora.
CD has large collection of notes on orchids, but does not know when he will publish on them again.
Asks for JS’s papers on sterility of individual orchids and on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 2 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4137 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 12] April [1863]. Scott and CD had been discussing the difficult pollination and small stigmatic openings of Gongora and the related Acropera since November 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
- … 12] April [1863] ); the paper was published as Scott 1863a (see n. 8, above). The second reference is to Scott’s paper on Drosera and Dionaea ( Scott 1862b ), read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 11 December 1862, abstracts of which appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 10 …
To F. T. Buckland 1 February [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for information; will write about the fins.
His health is weak and he is "almost smothered" with facts and inquiries, so is trying to restrict the scope of his present work, on variation under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 1 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3961 |
To Asa Gray 31 May [1863]
Summary
AG’s review of Alphonse de Candolle’s paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 430–44] is excellent.
Does not AG consider that orchids oppose Oswald Heer’s view that species arise suddenly by monstrosities?
Infers that AG cannot explain the angles of phyllotaxy; has been looking at Carl Nägeli on the subject.
Reports Gaston de Saporta’s belief that natural selection will ultimately triumph in France.
Is working slowly at Variation.
Reports his observations on the imperfect flowers of Viola and Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 31 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (84) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4196 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
From Roland Trimen 10, 13, and 18 October 1863
Summary
Comments on CD’s paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Sends specimens of dimorphic and trimorphic Oxalis.
Comments on H. W. Bates’s work [Naturalist on the river Amazons].
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10, 13 and 18 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B122–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4319 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 [September 1863]
Summary
Sends address.
Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 4 [Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4293 |
From H. W. Bates 17 January [1863]
Summary
Has sent copy of his paper to Asa Gray.
Melastomad flowers are strikingly neglected by pollinators.
Murray has ordered many illustrations for HWB’s Naturalist on the river Amazons.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 67 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3925 |
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: 2 hits
- … 12 April [1863] and n. 17. Scott and CD had been discussing the pollination of Gongora and the related Acropera since November 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
- … 12 April [1863] . Scott was foreman of the propagating department at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ( R. Desmond 1994 ). CD had been encouraging Scott’s experimental work since November 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). …
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1863
Summary
JDH working on the New Zealand flora.
Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.
T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4275 |
To Hermann Crüger 25 January [1863]
Summary
Asks about insect fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Crüger |
Date: | 25 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 358 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3943 |
To J. J. Aubertin 19 July 1863
Summary
Discusses geology of Brazil.
Asks for Brazilian stamps for his son.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John James Aubertin |
Date: | 19 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4246 |
From Emma Darwin to Friedrich Hildebrand 20 November [1863]
Summary
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 November 1863 . The references are to Ludolph Christian Treviranus and to Treviranus 1863c , which was published in the 7 August 1863 number of Botanische Zeitung. There is a lightly annotated copy of Treviranus 1863c in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL, and a manuscript translation in DAR 70: 38–52. The most recent extant correspondence between CD and Treviranus is the letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 …
To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 10–20 June [1862] and this volume, letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n. 7. The reference is to Arthur Rawson (see letters from Arthur Rawson , 1 April [1863] and [6 April 1863] ). CD’s note describing this experiment, dated 12 …
- … 12 April 1863] , and letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 April 1863 . After reading Gray’s observations of American species of Cypripedium in A. Gray 1862a , pp. 427–8, CD examined specimens and their pollination by bees. CD confessed that he had not thought of ‘insects crawling into flower’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
To J. D. Hooker 3 August [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4261 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 10, letters to Asa Gray , 9 August [1862] and [3–]4 September [1862] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [October 1862] and n. 12). …
- … 12 or 13 October 1863. See also ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [31 July 1863] . Francis Boott died of a lung disease on 25 December 1863 ( DNB ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [31 July 1863] and n. 9. In Decaisne 1863 , pp. 10– …
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