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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … letter (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 April [1864] ). For CD’s work on the relationship …
  • … n.  11, and the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 September [1864] . In Scott 1864a , p.  107  …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … as the frontispiece to this volume. See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 10 June [1864] . …
  • … route (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [4 June 1864] , and letter from John Scott, 8 June  …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … visited Down later in August (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, [16 August 1864] , n.  2). …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … oxlip (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 10 June [1864] ). Scott and CD often considered the …
  • … Antirrhinum (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [1 April 1864] and n.  4). CD began crossing …
  • … B18–23). See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [1 April 1864] and n.  4, and letter from John …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Henry Taylor (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [11 June 1864] and n.  8). See letter to …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … see the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n.  9. See Correspondence vol.   …
  • … March 1864 , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n.  11). Scott refers …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … vol.  12, letters from J.  D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 , [before 9 February  1864] , and …
  • J.  D.  Hooker, [17 February 1865] and n.  14. See letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 . The letters from John Scott of 21 December 1864  …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • Hooker to take notice of Scott 1864a (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] …
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