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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: 14 hits

  • … 1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). …
  • … Botany ) (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] ). CD …
  • … memoir’ (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] , letter …
  • … his own results (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] , and …
  • … in May 1863 (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] ). The …
  • … had been (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and …
  • … palatable! ’ (see Correspondence vol.  11, letters from John Scott , [3 June 1863] and 16  …
  • … of Scott’s paper (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ); …
  • … 3 December [1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] ). …
  • … of Scott 1864a (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ). He …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] and n.  4). CD evidently did …
  • … vol.  10, letters to John Scott , 19 November [1862] and 11 December [1862] , and …
  • … and the letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ( Correspondence vol.  11), and by the …
  • … In his letter to John Scott of 25 and 28 May [1863] ( Correspondence vol.  11), he wrote …

To Arthur Rawson   2 April [1863]

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Discusses unusual primula flowers and asks for details of Rawson’s experiments with gladioli. Asks for loan of Cypripedium but admits he will probably mutilate it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Arthur Rawson
Date:  2 Apr [1863]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (10 December 2013); Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Autumn 2017 lot 2184)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4072F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Rawson’ s reply, see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Arthur Rawson, [6 April 1863] . …
  • … lady’s-slipper); see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Arthur Rawson, 1 April [1863] . …
  • … is now complete. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Arthur Rawson, 1 April [1863] . …
  • … See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Daniel Oliver, 24–5 March [1863] . CD published an …
  • … 1 April [1863] (see Correspondence vol. 11). This letter was previously published with an …

To John Scott   8 January [1863]

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CD’s respect for JS’s indomitable work and interesting experiments increases steadily.

His gratitude for the primulas and the astonishing Gongora specimen.

Asks JS’s opinion about crossing a primrose with the pollen of a wild cowslip and of a cultivated polyanthus.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  8 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3908F

Matches: 10 hits

  • … appointment (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 ). He and …
  • … vol.  10, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 ). …
  • … specimens (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and CD …
  • … to examine it (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and CD …
  • … 15 November [1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 ; …
  • … 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 18 [November  …
  • … and the letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11). For Scott’s …
  • … see his letter to CD of 6 January 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11). Scott was hoping to …
  • … In his letter of 6 January 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11), Scott wrote that he was …
  • letter to John Scott, 20 [February 1863] ). Scott conducted crosses with species of Primulaceae on the advice of CD from 1862 (see Correspondence vols.  10–12, and Scott 1864 ). Following publication of ‘Dimorphic condition of Primula ’, CD continued making crosses of Primula species. For his work comparing crosses of primroses with cowslips and with polyanthus, see ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’, ‘Specific difference in Primula ’ , Forms of flowers , and his notes in DAR 108. The construction of CD’s hothouse was completed by mid-February 1863 (see Correspondence vol.  11, …

From John Scott   19 March 1864

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On fertilisation of Gongora.

His work on peloric Antirrhinum, Passiflora, and Verbascum, done at CD’s suggestion, is at CD’s disposal.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Mar 1864
Classmark:  DAR 177: 102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4432

Matches: 12 hits

  • … 1864] and n.  6, and Crüger 1864 ). See also Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John …
  • … 10); see also Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 18 February [1863] . Scott …
  • … of Acropera , see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and …
  • … 1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to P.  H.  Gosse, 2 June [1863] ). For CD’s …
  • … related orchids (see Orchids , pp.  282–4, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to P.  H.   …
  • … vol.  11, letters from John Scott, 6 January 1863 , [after 12] April [1863] , and 21 May [ …
  • … observations of Acropera ovules in his letter of 11 November 1862 ( Correspondence vol.   …
  • … 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , and letter to John Scott, 12 November [ …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , and Correspondence …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  10, letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ; see also this …
  • … Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and nn.  17 and 18, and this volume, letter to Daniel Oliver, …
  • 11). For CD’s expanded conclusions about insect visits to Acropera and related orchids, supported by the observations of Hermann Crüger and Scott, see Orchids 2d ed. , pp.  168–9 and 269–71, and the letter

From W. E. Darwin   17 and 20 May [1863]

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Alarmed that CD did not see what WED saw in Corydalis lutea. Has found buckbean in the New Forest. Will get seeds of Corydalis claviculata.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 and 20 May 1863
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 16)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4168F

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to W. E. Darwin, [10 May 1863] and n. …
  • … what he had observed, see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from W. E. Darwin, 8 May [1863] . …
  • … higher apes. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 4 [February 1863] and n. …
  • … 3 (1863): 497–8 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n. …
  • … this letter and the letter to W. E. Darwin, [10 May 1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11). See …

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: 10 hits

  • … the position, see Correspondence vol.  11, letters from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and 26  …
  • … and Menziesia (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Isaac Anderson-Henry, 24 April  …
  • … 1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] and nn.  5 and 6; …
  • … pollination, see Correspondence vol.  11, letters from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and 3  …
  • … on Oncidium (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] and …
  • … in particular, see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863  and n.   …
  • … May [1863] . See also letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] . …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11), which CD then forwarded with his letter to Scott of 25 and 28  …
  • … Bryanthus in his letter of 6 January 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11). He reported his …
  • … March 1864 , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n.  11). Scott refers …

From Hermann Crüger   21 January 1864

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Sends his MS of orchid paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for CD to send to an editor.

CD was right about Catasetum sexes.

Ficus experiments fail.

Author:  Hermann Crüger
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 161: 278
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4394

Matches: 12 hits

  • … 3, below. See Correspondence vol.  11, letters from Hermann Crüger , 23 February 1863  and …
  • … p.  147. See also Correspondence vol.  11, letter to Hermann Crüger, 25 May [1863] , and …
  • … see Crüger 1851  and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Hermann Crüger, 23 April 1863 ). …
  • … Edward Bradford . See Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Edward Bradford, 31 July 1863 . …
  • … p.  325, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to Daniel Oliver, 28 [November 1863] ). There …
  • … in Germany, see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 . …
  • … Marcgraviaceae, in his letter of 8 August 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11). CD had already …
  • … p.  127. In his letter of 23 February 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11), Crüger expressed …
  • … In his letter of 31 July 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11), Edward Bradford disputed CD’s …
  • … 175. See also letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] and n.  11. Crüger had discussed …
  • … in his letter to Daniel Oliver, 28 March [1863] ( Correspondence vol.  11). Crüger had …
  • letter to the Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener , [17–24 March 1863] ( Correspondence vol.  11), …

From J. D. Hooker   29 March 1864

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John Scott’s career.

Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.

Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.

Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Mar 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 193–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4439

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  • … in medallions (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 6 January 1863 , …
  • … Crawfurd . See also Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 January 1863] …
  • … see, for example, Correspondence vol.  11, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 April [1863] and …
  • … pp.  216, 219, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 23 October 1863 ). …
  • … both regions (see Correspondence vol.  11, letters from J.  D.  Hooker, 23 October 1863   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n.  11, and letter from John Scott, 28 March 1864  and …
  • letter from Hugh Falconer in the Athenæum , 2 May 1863, p.  586). There was much discussion in CD’s 1863 correspondence regarding the controversy (see Correspondence vol.  11); …

To J. D. Hooker   [27 January 1864]

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CD continues very ill.

His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.

Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [27 Jan 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 218
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4398

Matches: 7 hits

  • … Horace’s illness, see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to J.  B.  Innes, 1 September [1863] …
  • … in 1863 (see Correspondence vol.  11, letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 22 July [1863] and n.  2, …
  • … modified stems (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 July 1863] ). …
  • … they were modified leaves (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26 [ …
  • … 1863] ). See also Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [31 July 1863] , …
  • … note in DAR 157.2: 78, and letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 March [1864] ). He offered several …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  11, Appendix VI, and this volume, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [25  …

To Daniel Oliver   18 March [1864]

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Thanks for information on Tecoma.

Cannot believe DO’s statement about Catasetum; is sure C. tridentatum sets seeds in its native country.

CD erred on Acropera, but how is it naturally fertilised?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  18 Mar [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 59 (EH 88206042)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4430

Matches: 5 hits

  • … about in 1863 (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 [June 1863] ); …
  • … in Trinidad (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Edward Bradford, 31 July 1863 , and …
  • … see, for example, Correspondence vol.  11, letter to P.  H.  Gosse, 2 June [1863] ). …
  • … Acropera (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] and n.  6, …
  • … Correspondence vol.  10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 ). CD also eventually …

From Henry Trimen   10 May 1864

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Cannot give information about the box of Oxalis bulbs that his brother [Roland Trimen] has forwarded to CD.

Author:  Henry Trimen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 May 1864
Classmark:  DAR 178: 183
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4491

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  • … to send bulbs (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to Roland Trimen, 25 November [1863] ). …
  • … Africa, in 1863 (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] , and …

To Asa Gray   19 April [1865]

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Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".

Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.

Working on Variation

and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.

Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.

Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  19 Apr [1865]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4467

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  • … see, for example, Correspondence vol.  11, letters to Asa Gray , 26 June [1863] and 4  …
  • … March [1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letters to Asa Gray , 2 January [1863] and 4  …
  • … and letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to …
  • … 12 [April 1862] , Correspondence vol.  11, letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [5 May 1863] and n.   …
  • … herbarium is discussed in the letters from Asa Gray , 16 February 1864  and 11 July 1864 ( …
  • … January 1865  and n.  11. CD mentioned Auguste Laugel in his letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 17  …
  • 11 May [1863] and n.  14). CD evidently did not obtain seeds of dimorphic Plantago from Gray (see letter

To Alfred Russel Wallace   1 January 1864

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Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:  1 Jan 1864
Classmark:  The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4376

Matches: 5 hits

  • … decay. See also Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863  and nn.  12  …
  • … Darwinism ’” (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Asa Gray, 23 November 1863  and …
  • … 205.11: 126, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to Charles Lyell, [7 May 1863] . For more …
  • … and n.  2. In his letter of 23 November 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11), Asa Gray referred …
  • … History. In his letter of 23 November 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11), Gray referred to an …

From J. D. Hooker   24 January 1864

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JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.

Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.

Huxley grows fat.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 176–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4396

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  • … December 1863 (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Emma Darwin to J.  D.  Hooker, 26  …
  • … 6476)). See also Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Emma Darwin to J.  D.  Hooker, 26  …
  • … 22 March 1863 (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 March 1863] ). …
  • … Gardens, Kew (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 March 1863] , …

From Robert Swinhoe   4 April 1864

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Reports on a strange breed of sheep at Aden,

a Brazilian plant naturalised in Ceylon,

the Australian Casuarina equisetum spreading in Taiwan,

and an excrescence on wing of several thrushes of Taiwan similar to a growth on wing of a Syrian species.

Author:  Robert Swinhoe
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Apr 1864
Classmark:  DAR 205.2 (Letters): 254–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4449

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  • … 450–6; see also Correspondence vol.  11, letters to T.  H.  Huxley, 16 February [1863] and …
  • … Marginalia 1: 797, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from Robert Swinhoe, 29 July 1863   …
  • … see, for example, Correspondence vol.  11, letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January 1863 ). …

From John Lubbock   1 July [1866]

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Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 July [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 170: 52
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5138

Matches: 2 hits

  • … CUL.  See also Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Lubbock, 23 [February 1863] and …
  • … CD’s interest in the paper, see the letter to Fritz Müller, 11 January 1866  and n.  8. …

From Lydia Ernestine Becker   22 December 1866

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Thanks CD for previous communications. Asks him to send a paper relating to flowers to be read at first meeting of her ladies’ literary and scientific society.

Author:  Lydia Ernestine Becker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Dec 1866
Classmark:  DAR 160: 113
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5316

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  • … has been found (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to L.  E.  Becker, 2 August [1863] ). …
  • … parasitic fungus (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from L.  E.  Becker, 28 May [1863] ; …
  • … observations (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from L.  E.  Becker, 31 July [1863] ). …

From John Scott   20 January 1865

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Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].

Describes his situation in Calcutta.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Jan 1865
Classmark:  DAR 177: 114
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4751

Matches: 4 hits

  • … 1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). In his …
  • … alterations (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ). CD …
  • … in May 1863 (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and …
  • … transmutation (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 10 June 1863 , and …

From Horace Benge Dobell   15 July 1864

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Suggests man’s original mode of walking and running is similar to that of quadrupeds.

He also suggests CD answer critics who say no new species has ever been unequivocally traced to its origins, by pointing out that there is no unequivocal account of the origin of surnames.

Author:  Horace Benge Dobell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 162: 190
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4568

Matches: 2 hits

  • … 1862  and 1866, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to H.  B.  Dobell, 21 April [1863] , …
  • … 46–7, 169–70, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to H.  B.  Dobell, 16 February [1863] ). …

From William Bernhard Tegetmeier   1 February 1864

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Would like his fowl skulls back.

Breeding experiments seem to show mongrels are just as fertile as pure breeds.

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Feb 1864
Classmark:  DAR 178: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4761

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  • … and Appendix VI, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to W.  B. Tegetmeier, 19 February [ …
  • … their offspring (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from W.   B. Tegetmeier, 29 June – 7  …
  • … 41–2, 49–50, and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 19 February [1863] …
  • … 7 July 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11), and in the letter from W.  B. Tegetmeier, [before …
  • … after CD’s letter to Tegetmeier of 9 July [1863] ( Correspondence vol.  11). Tegetmeier …
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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  • … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of  The variation of animals and …