To John Scott 9 April 1864
Summary
Regrets that JS has left the [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden and that [J. D.] Hooker is not in a position to secure a foreign appointment for him. Offers financial assistance on the grounds of science.
Has sent JS a copy of the Reader.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 9 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4458F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1864] and n. 5. …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 . CD may have sent Scott the 26 March 1864 …
- … experiments (see also letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] and nn. 3–5). In a …
- … Hooker, [2 April 1864] and [4 April 1864] , and letters to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] …
- … Scott’s fitness for any gardening job (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). …
To John Scott 9 February [1864]
Summary
Bentham so impressed with JS’s paper that he is invited to become Associate Member of Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 9 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B17–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4405 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Dalton Hooker (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] ). From 1861 …
- … dominions (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] and n. 3). Though …
- … 1864] and nn. 2–5). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 . George Bentham …
- … n. 6, above, and letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 March 1864 ), or later; after Scott left …
- … 1866 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] and n. 3, and List of the …
- … each year (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] and n. 3). The 1862 …
- … in England (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 26[–8] October 1864 and n. 15). In fact, …
To John Scott 6 February [1864]
Summary
JS’s Primula paper was read at the Linnean Society and praised warmly by G. Bentham. Hooker was not present.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 6 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4402 |
To John Scott 21 May [1864]
Summary
Encloses an extract from a letter received from [J. D.] Hooker which suggests a job opportunity in India. Advises careful reflection about the risks and the need for a character recommendation. Would like to support the costs of the voyage and initial living expenses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 21 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4505F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … and abilities to Hooker ( see letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 and enclosure). CD …
- … this letter, the letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 , and the letter from John Scott, …
- … August 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [16 August 1864] , n. 2). CD refers to Scott’ …
- … J. D. Hooker 1854 , and R. Desmond 1999 ). Additionally, as assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Hooker had numerous contacts with individuals employed in colonial botanic gardens and plantations (see Brockway 1979 ). CD refers to John Hutton Balfour and James McNab , who were Scott’s superiors at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, where he had worked as foreman of the propagating department until his resignation in March (see letter from John Scott, 10 March 1864 ). …
To John Scott 20 May [1864]
Summary
Corrects his former account of cowslips.
The delay in the publication of JS’s Primula paper.
Delights in JS’s experimentation on Verbascum which confirms [C. F.] Gärtner’s statements.
Should be pleased if JS would accept offer of help.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 20 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4504G |
To John Scott 10 June 1864
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 10 June 1864 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4528 |
To John Scott 19 December [1862]
Summary
JS should be proud of his paper ["Nature of the fern-spore", Edinburgh New. Philos. J. 2d ser. 16 (1862): 209–27].
CD has just found that JS’s observations on the confluence of two sexes causing variability were independently confirmed by Huxley.
CD has always suspected a fundamental difference between buds and ovules.
Asks for examples of "bud-variation" or "sports".
Asks JS to test germination of pollen on rostellum of Laelia.
Offers JS money for experimental supplies, e.g., netting, to keep insects out of flowers.
Encloses an outline of crossing experiments with Lythraceae, Primula, Pelargonium, and others, which he feels would be valuable.
Note on melastomids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B35–6, B64–5, B80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3868 |
To John Scott 25 [July 1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to continue work on coloured primrose. No one has noticed this since Gärtner. CD will send his own data for JS’s use and will read MS when ready. Advises JS to repeat experiments if evidence is weak – for his reputation’s sake and for satisfaction at fully establishing a fact.
Treviranus made a slip of pen in writing of Primula longiflora as short-styled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 25 [July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B45–6, B69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4253 |
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 |
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