From John Scott 8 June 1864
Summary
Discusses cost of trip to India and CD’s offer to advance sum. Thanks Hooker for assistance. Would prize a scientific testimonial from CD.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4524 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] ). The extracts have …
- … J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] and n. 19. …
- … 1864] (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] and n. 2). Scott had experienced …
- … order to extract a portion for inclusion in the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . …
- … May [1864] ). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] . Scott had been offered a …
- … s annotations to the letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] . Hooker had been assisting …
- … in India (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 and [4 June 1864] ). See letter to …
- … also enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 . Letter from John Scott, 28 …
- … 9 April 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 April [1864] ). When it became clear that …
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Summary
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: 11 hits
- … vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] and [19 September 1864] ). Scott was …
- … vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 , and this volume, letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 ). He …
- … J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). Balfour …
- … to Hooker (see, for example, ibid. , letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] ), and …
- … 12, enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). See also letter from John …
- … see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1864] ). He repeatedly …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] and n. 6). He eventually sent …
- … 1864 ). CD and Hooker had suspected that Balfour was prejudiced against Scott because of Scott’s support for CD’s theory of transmutation (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] and n. 6. CD’s letter informing Scott that he had sent copies of his Primula paper, Scott 1864b , to others has not been found. CD had sent a copy of Scott 1864b , together with his own notes, summarising the main points of the paper, to Asa Gray (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] ). …
- … Hooker, [10 March 1865] , letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 [March 1865] , and letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). After a suggestion from CD in 1862, Scott began work on Verbascum to test the experiments on hybrid sterility performed by Karl Friedrich von Gärtner (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] , and letter from John Scott, 17 December [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). In his letter of 16 May [1864] ( …
From John Scott 29 July [1864]
Summary
Asks for additional financial aid for trip to India.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4578 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to Thomas Anderson and Arthur Grote (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] ). …
- … employment (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 , letter to John Scott, 21 May [ …
- … was Henry Taylor (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1864] and n. 2). CD had given …
- … and n. 5). In his letter to J. D. Hooker of 22 [May 1864] , CD wrote that he would pay …
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, [4 April 1864] , and 6 April 1864 and enclosure). …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and nn. 9 and 10, and …
- … vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [15 May 1864] and n. 4). CD’s annotations to Scott’s …
- … 1864 (see letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 ). Scott had been working on a Cinchona plantation near Darjeeling since his arrival in India (see letters from John Scott , 20 January 1865 and n. 7, and 10 April 1865 ). Thomas Anderson was superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Gardens. Joseph Dalton Hooker had written to Anderson to ask for assistance in finding employment for Scott (see letter from J. D. …
From John Scott 5 May [1864]
Summary
Encloses MS of his paper ["On individual sterility of Oncidium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
His next will be on Passiflora, Disemma, and Tacsonia [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 197–206].
When he receives proofs of his Primula paper he will add CD’s case about equal-styled cowslip.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4485 |
From John Scott 10 June [1864]
Summary
Thanks CD for £25. Discusses preparations for trip to India.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4527 |
From John Scott 28 May [1864]
Summary
Discusses the negative testimonial provided him by James McNab.
Sends testimonial from J. H. Balfour.
Would be glad if offered the sort of colonial opportunity Hooker suggests.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 107; Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4513 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … enclosure to the letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 . Scott began a correspondence …
- … in India. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 . See enclosure. See letter to John …
- … 1864] , CD had suggested that Scott obtain references from his former superiors at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, John Hutton Balfour and James McNab . The letter to Scott from McNab has not been found. Scott had been offered a position in a Cinchona plantation in Darjeeling, India, in May 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters from John Scott , 22 May 1863 and 26 May [1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
From John Scott 2 August 1864
Summary
Thanks CD for loan of £10.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4582 |
From John Scott 10 June [1864]
Summary
Sends Passiflora paper [see 4485].
Sends seeds of peloric Antirrhinum crossed by normal form and sends results of his experiments [table of crosses].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 51: B22; DAR 177: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4526 |
From John Scott 20 June [1864]
Summary
Preparations for trip to India. Thanks for testimonial.
Surprised by the self-fertility of CD’s peloric Antirrhinum.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4541 |
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 |
From John Scott 10 April 1865
Summary
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4810 |
From John Scott 19 March 1864
Summary
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 |