To Frederick Smith [c. 17 February 1864?]
Summary
Sends, for identification, specimens of bees and wasps which fertilise orchids. [Notes in FS’s hand on the same sheet identify the specimens.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Smith |
| Date: | [c. 17 Feb 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 70: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3365 |
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 J. D. Hooker [8 February 1864]
Summary
Compares Clematis and Tropaeolum with respect to touch response. Tropaeolum shows a momentary response and quick recovery. Clematis takes hours to respond, and shows no recovery.
CD can show the gradations between leaves and tendrils, but how a branch passes into a tendril utterly puzzles him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4403 |
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 |
To Daniel Oliver 17 February [1864]
Summary
Sends Hermann Crüger’s paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for publication.
"Boasts" of confirmation that sexes are separate in Catasetum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 58 (EH 88206041) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4410 |
To J. D. Hooker [20–]22 February [1864]
Summary
Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.
Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.
Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?
Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [20–]22 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 221a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4412 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [February 1864]
Summary
Asks for a Smilax to study movement.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 [Feb 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4414 |
To Asa Gray 25 February [1864]
Summary
Has not worked for six months due to illness.
Has been looking at climbing plants.
Hermann Crüger’s paper shows that CD was right about Catasetum pollination. Crüger’s account of pollination of Coryanthes "beats everything".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4415 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 February [1864]
Summary
Returns WBT’s box of skulls. One or two skulls may be elsewhere, but CD does not have the strength to search for them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5389 |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Scott, John | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Scott, John | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
