To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1864]
Summary
Requests climbing plants.
Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4517 |
From Julius von Haast 2 June 1864
Summary
Inquires about CD’s health.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4518 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 June 1864]
Summary
JDH is writing letters for Scott, whose temper will be "no obstacle for Hindoos and Musselmen working under him".
New curator at Kew finds considerable neglect, with hundreds of plants dying.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 June 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 222–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4519 |
From C. C. Babington 6 June 1864
Summary
Cannot get any Stellaria graminea for CD. It is rare. Some, producing different kinds of flowers, once grew in Sandgate, Kent. Variations in flowers need to be re-examined.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4521 |
From Patrick Matthew 6 June 1864
Summary
Would like to meet CD.
He is writing a piece on the Schleswig-Holstein affair which will expose the British press.
Author: | Patrick Matthew |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4522 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1864]
Summary
CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.
Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.
W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 238a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4525 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
From William Marshall 12 June 1864
Summary
Informs CD of two distinct forms of Plantago lanceolata.
Author: | William Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A88–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4530 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1864]
Summary
W. H. Harvey’s dandelion case worth publishing.
Suspects the uniform Primula elatior JDH referred to is a distinct species.
Scott’s paper on Passiflora shows variability of reproductive systems.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4531 |
To Daniel Oliver [c. 10 June 1864]
Summary
Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [c. 10 June 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4532 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 June 1864
Summary
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4534 |
To A. R. Wallace 15 June [1864]
Summary
Short reply to ARW’s long letter. Reaffirms belief in sexual selection.
Postscript on M.-J.-P. Flourens’ "little dull book against me" [Examen du livre de M. Darwin (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 15 June [1864] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4535 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 June [1864]
Summary
L. H. Palm [Über das Winden der Pflanzen (1827)] is better on climbing plants than H. von Mohl [Über den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen (1827)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 49 (EH 88206032) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4536 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1864
Summary
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4537 |
From Bernard Peirce Brent 18 June 1864
Summary
Has been informed Miss E. Watts retiring from poultry department of the Field and would like to take the post if made available. Asks CD if he would provide a reference for him if necessary.
Has bred and reared a young turtle-dove.
On progress of his lawsuit.
Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4538 |
From W. E. Darwin 18 June [1864]
Summary
Doesn't think will be able to find Buckthorn. Sends reference from Revue de Deux Mondes. Is settled at the Bank.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June [1864] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4538F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Scott, John | (4) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Scott, John | (5) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |
Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Brent, B. P. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Mackintosh, F. E. E. | (1) |
Marshall, William | (1) |
Matthew, Patrick | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Wedgwood, F. E. E. | (1) |
Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |