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From J. D. Hooker   [23–7 May 1863]

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Encloses his notions [missing] on John Scott’s offer; some points in explanation.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23–7 May 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 141–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4134

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Scott’s dispute with McNab, see the letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 . Scott wished to …
  • … lectures (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and n.  3). The letter appears to be a …
  • … directory 1863). See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …
  • … Hutton Balfour . See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and n.  1. Thomas Anderson was …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 23 May [1863] , and the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Since …
  • … was sent with the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Attempts by the British to …

To J. D. Hooker   29 May [1863]

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CD’s encouragement of John Scott, who has found a case of self-incompatibility in orchids, like William Herbert’s in Crinum.

Nägeli on phyllotaxy.

CD’s observations on broom fertilisation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  29 May [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 195
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4191

Matches: 8 hits

  • … post he had been offered in Darjeeling, India (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 ). …
  • … forwarded with the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . The note gave Scott advice …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 26 May [1863] . The reference is to John …
  • … has not been found. See letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and nn.  23 and 24. Scott …
  • … 7, above), for the Edinburgh Evening Courant (see letter from John Scott, 26 May [1863] ). …
  • … See letters from John Scott , 21 March [1863] and [1–11] April [1863] . The reference is …
  • … Hutton Balfour . See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . In his letter to CD of [ …
  • … reference is to John Scott (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 May [1863] , and letter from …

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: 9 hits

  • … letter to Scott of 25 and 28 May [1863] . See also letter to John Scott, 11 June [1863] . …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  11, letters from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and 26 May [1863] . …
  • … See also ibid. , letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . Hooker sent a note to CD with his …
  • … and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] and nn.  5 and 6; see also …
  • … vol.  11, letters from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and 3 March 1863 . See also letter from …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863  and n.  15. Scott sent his …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] and nn.  2–6 and 10). …
  • John Scott, 19 March 1864  and n.  9. The article by Isaac Anderson -Henry has not been found in the Scottish Farmer ; however, see Anderson-Henry 1867 , p.  2. An annotated copy of Anderson-Henry 1867  is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.  In 1863, …
  • 1863 ( Correspondence vol.  11). He reported his failure to pollinate the plant in Scott 1864c , pp.  199–200 n. For CD’s suggestions for Scott’s research, see, for example, Correspondence vol.  10, first enclosure to letter to John

From John Scott   6 January 1863

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Sends Primula scotica and P. farinosa.

So far cannot fertilise Gongora atropurpurea although it is similar to Acropera luteola.

Experimenting on intergeneric hybrids to test CD’s view that sterility is not a special endowment.

Scott’s personal history.

Acropera capsule grows.

Plans for experiments CD has suggested on Primula, peloric Antirrhinum, and Verbascum.

Asks about Gärtner’s experiments on maize.

Aware of Anderson-Henry’s failures.

Through kindness of J. H. Balfour and James McNab, enjoys facilities for research. JS is in charge of the propagating department. Balfour almost engaged him to be superintendent of the Madras Horticultural Garden.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Jan 1863
Classmark:  DAR 177: 81, 83
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3904

Matches: 7 hits

  • … From John Scott   6 January 1863
  • … DAR 177: 81, 83 John Scott unstated 6 Jan 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 20 [February 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] ). The note is with Scott’s …
  • … p.  107). See letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] and nn.  10–11. With encouragement …
  • … Meconopsis. See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . In his letter to John Scott, …
  • … 5 [and 6] January [1863] and n.  22). In his letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ( …
  • John Scott, 6 December [1862] and 17 December [1862] . In his letter of 26–7 January 1863 , …

From John Scott   [13 January 1864]

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Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.

Sends promised Linum seeds.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [13 Jan 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4385

Matches: 5 hits

  • … May (see, for example, Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 , and …
  • … letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] ). Scott published his findings in Scott 1864d . By …
  • … vol.  11, letters from John Scott , [26 July – 2 August 1863] and 21 September [ …
  • … 1863] , and letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] . …
  • John Scott, 11 December [1862] , and Origin , pp.  250–1). Scott and CD continued discussing Passiflora in 1863, …

To Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener   [17–24 March 1863]

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Reports the observations of Hermann Crüger and John Scott that fruit is set by orchids whose flowers never open and that pollen-tubes are emitted from pollen-masses still in their proper position. These cases convince CD that in Orchids he underestimated the power of tropical orchids to produce seed without insect aid but he is not shaken in his belief that the structure of the flowers is mainly related to insect agency.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Journal of Horticulture
Date:  [17–24 Mar 1863]
Classmark:  Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 237
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4069

Matches: 5 hits

  • … and this volume, letter from John Scott, 3 March 1863 ). There is an incomplete two-page …
  • … to this letter in his letter to John Scott of 24 March [1863] . In an article concerning …
  • … See also letter to John Scott, 24 March [1863] . However, Scott had carried out, at CD’s …
  • … see, for example, letters from John Scott , 6 January 1863 , 16 January 1863 , and 21  …
  • John Scott has been found recording observations of pollen-tubes emitted from pollen masses while still in situ ; moreover, Scott denied having made such claims in his letter to CD of [1–11] April [1863] . …

To J. D. Hooker   [21 February 1863]

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Plants, safely arrived from Kew, fill new greenhouse.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [21 Feb 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 182
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4004

Matches: 2 hits

  • … letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  3. …
  • … in Acropera , see, for example, the letter to John Scott, 20 [February 1863] , and …

To J. D. Hooker   23 May [1863]

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Seeks advice for John Scott on job offer in India.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 May [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 194
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4180

Matches: 2 hits

  • … 20 February – 16 [March] 1848 . See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863  and n.  5. …
  • … Letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 . CD was seeking advice on John Scott’s behalf about a …

From John Hutton Balfour   22 April 1863

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Thanks for paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

One of his gardeners [John Scott] is also studying such fertilisation and appreciates CD’s encouragement; Scott has paper to read for Edinburgh Botanical Society.

Author:  John Hutton Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 160: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4119

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Society of Edinburgh on 14 May 1863 (see letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] ). …
  • … for example, letter from John Scott, [after 12] April [1863] and n.  5). Balfour refers to …
  • 1863 ( General index to the Journal of the Linnean Society , p.  vi). Balfour’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ ( Correspondence vol.  11, Appendix IV). The reference is to John Scott , …

From John Scott   28 May [1864]

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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: 4 hits

  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letters from John Scott , 22 May 1863  and 26 May [1863] , and …
  • … with McNab, see ibid. , letters from John Scott , 22 May 1863  and [3 June 1863] . Joseph …
  • … vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 , Transactions of the Botanical Society [ …
  • 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 ( …

To Asa Gray   19 January [1863]

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Comments on his own review of Bates’s butterfly paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].

Thanks AG for information on Platanthera.

Has been wasting more time with Melastomataceae; can find no nectar in Monochaetum; is there any in Rhexia?

Hopes Lincoln’s "fiat against Slavery" will have some effect.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  19 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3927

Matches: 4 hits

  • … found, but see the letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] . Gray was one of the editors …
  • … experiments on the species on CD’s behalf (see letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and …
  • … letter to John Scott, 6 June [1863] ). See also letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and …
  • 1863 ). Citing Planchon 1847–8 , CD described L.  lewisii as bearing, on the same plant, some flowers with anthers and stigmas of the same height, and others with styles either longer or shorter than the stamens; this he called ‘a unique case’ (p.  82; Collected papers 2: 104–5). CD does not appear to have conducted the trials to which he refers; instead, John Scott , …

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: 5 hits

  • … vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] ). In his letter of 16 May [1864] ( …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] ). CD received a revised …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and Correspondence vol.   …
  • John Scott, 28 May 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.  Hooker, 10 June 1863 , …
  • John Hutton Balfour was regius keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Scott’s relations with his superiors at the Garden were apparently strained after he failed to accept an appointment in Darjeeling offered to him by Balfour in May 1863 ( …

To J. D. Hooker   26 [March 1863]

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CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.

Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.

Latent characters and reversion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  26 [Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 188
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4061

Matches: 3 hits

  • … the Vandeae (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  15). CD probably refers …
  • … the seeds had so far proved ineffectual (see letter from John Scott, 21 March [1863] ). …
  • … in February 1863; CD wished to compare a capsule produced artificially by John Scott from …

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: 6 hits

  • … vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 18 February [1863] . Scott read his paper ‘Remarks on …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] , and experimental note …
  • … vol.  11, letters from John Scott, 6 January 1863 , [after 12] April [1863] , and 21 May [ …
  • … vol.  11, letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and nn.  17 and 18, and this volume, …
  • John Scott, 12 November [1862] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to P.  H.  Gosse, 2 June [1863] ). …
  • Scott did not publish his results on Acropera pollination, but see n.  18, above. CD encouraged Scott to experiment with Verbascum and Passiflora in 1862 and 1863 (see Correspondence vol.  10, letter to John

From John Scott   8 June 1864

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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: 3 hits

  • … see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , and this volume, letter …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letters from John Scott , 22 May 1863  and 26 May [1863] , and …
  • John Scott, 21 May [1864] ). See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 22 [May 1864] . Scott had been offered a position in India in May 1863 ( …

From W. E. Darwin   [30 April 1864]

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[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from red cowslip, magnified 350x.]

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [30 Apr 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 108: 84
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4478

Matches: 3 hits

  • … vol.  11, letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] and n.  10; and this volume, letter to …
  • … Correspondence vol.  11, letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] and n.  13). CD was …
  • … from seeds that John Scott had sent from Edinburgh in 1863 following his experimental work …

To Daniel Oliver   24–5 March [1863]

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Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  24–5 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4059

Matches: 2 hits

  • … example the letter from John Scott, 16 January 1863 ). CD carried out crossing experiments …
  • … of the Vandeae (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  14). See letter to …

To [Robertson Munro?]   3 February [1865 or 1866?]

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Is glad MTM is going to experiment on Passiflora.

Is grieved to hear that John Scott has been inaccurate but cannot think he recorded, in his paper, experiments that he never made [see 4485].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robertson Munro
Date:  3 Feb [1865-6]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 16
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4763

Matches: 2 hits

  • … See also Correspondence vol.  11, enclosure to letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 . …
  • John Scott, 11 December [1862] , and Appendix VI). On Scott’ s experiments and his discussions with CD about Passiflora in 1863  …

From Hermann Crüger   23 April 1863

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Observations on Catasetum.

Figs require insects in order to set seed.

Author:  Hermann Crüger
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 161: 276, DAR 205.8: 68 (Letters)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4124

Matches: 4 hits

  • … letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] ). CD was interested in attempting to …
  • … the Journal of Horticulture , [31 March 1863]; he also discussed them with John Scott (see …
  • … 25 May [1863] . CD had suggested crossing experiments on begonias to John Scott (see …
  • John Scott, 19 December [1862] ), and may have asked Crüger about the fertility of begonias in Trinidad (see n.  1, above). For experimental notes on begonias dated 19 March and 6 April 1863, …

From John Scott   10 April 1865

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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: 3 hits

  • … and Correspondence vol.  11, letters to John Scott , 31 May [1863] and 1  and 3 August [ …
  • … vol.  11, letters from John Scott , [after 12] April [1863] and 21 May [1863] , and …
  • Scott, who ‘cultivated the plants in various ways, but they never produced perfect flowers’. CD had acquired a Lagerstroemia , a heterostyled member of the Lythraceae, from Hooker in 1863, and evidently wanted to learn more of Indian species (see letter from John
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