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To J. D. Hooker   2 June [1864]

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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]

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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

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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]

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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]

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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

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Letter of recommendation stating his high opinion of John Scott.

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]

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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

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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]

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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]

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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

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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]

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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]

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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

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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

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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]

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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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