To [W. H. Scott?] 16 November [1875?]
Summary
Thanks for a ‘very remarkable & trustworthy case of reason in the dog’.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Scott |
| Date: | 16 Nov [1875?] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.10409) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10260F |
To A. R. Wallace [29? September 1863]
Summary
Baffling problems with Melastoma. Appreciates ARW’s help with it and the "gorze case".
Has read report of ARW’s paper [to Newcastle BAAS meeting, "On the geographical distribution of animal life"] in the Reader [2 (1863): 352–3].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [29? Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 46434: 36–7b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4310 |
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 |
To Asa Gray 19 January [1863]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1864]
Summary
Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4474 |
From W. H. Scott 13 November 1875
Summary
Gives an example of the power of reasoning shown by dogs.
| Author: | William Henry Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10259 |
Scott, W. H. (1849–1917)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Scott 1849–1917 Solicitor. Son of William Robson Scott, principal of the West of England Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb. Practised in London, 1871–82, Bradford, Yorkshire, 1883–1905, and Ilkley, Yorkshire, 1890–1905. Retired to Bromley, Kent, by 1911. BMD ( Birth index ) Census returns of England and Wales 1911 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG14/3633/72) Correspondence vol. 23, letter from W. H. …
From Charles Augustus Bennet, Lord Tankerville [9 February 1862]
Summary
Describes battles among bulls for leadership of the [Chillingham] herd.
| Author: | Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Feb 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 157–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3441 |
From J. D. Hooker [11 June 1864]
Summary
CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.
JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.
Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 June 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4529 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Scott, 10 June [1864] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 17. Hooker refers to the cowslip, Primula veris , and the primrose, P. vulgaris. Hitcham, a village in Suffolk, was the home of the late John Stevens Henslow , Hooker’s father-in-law. Hooker refers to William Henry Harvey . See enclosure to letter from W. H. Harvey, 19 May 1864 , and letter …
To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from W. H. Dixon, 16 April 1863) . CD refers to Henry Walter Bates’s The naturalist on the river Amazons ( Bates 1863 ). Gray had been puzzled by the type of self-pollination in Gymnadenia (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 22 September 1862 and n. 13). He published comments on Gymnadenia in A. Gray 1863b . John Scott …
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Bennet, C. A. (b) | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Scott, W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Scott, W. H. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Scott, W. H. | (2) |
| Bennet, C. A. (b) | (1) |
