From J. D. Hooker 9 [March] 1864
Summary
Reception of Scott’s paper.
Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.
Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.
Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.
Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.
Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 [Mar] 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 189–92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4404 |
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 |
From Andrew Murray 15 February 1864
Summary
A regular column is to appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society on successful and failed interspecific crosses.
Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4407 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 February 1864
Summary
CD’s climbing plant experiments make it impossible to deny nerve force in plants.
Has discussed Frankland’s new glacial theory with Lyell.
Bishop Colenso’s trial.
Possibility of Scott’s coming to Kew as a curator.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 183–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4408 |
From Asa Gray 16 February 1864
Summary
Is sending his monograph ["A revision and arrangement of the North American species of Astragalus and Oxytropis", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1863): 188–236].
Death of Francis Boott.
U. S. is now determined to do away with slavery.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4409 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 18 February 1864
Summary
Thinks the paper by H. Crüger should appear in the Journal of the Linnean Society.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4411 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 February 1864]
Summary
Sends a Corydalis.
Hermann Crüger’s paper [see 4394] splendid, but he has made a mess of propagating Cinchona in Trinidad.
JDH’s opinion of Germans.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Feb 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4413 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [February 1864]
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 |
From William Erasmus Darwin [15 March 1864]
Summary
Has drawn all three forms of primroses CD sent "with same result". Has found no pink variety with middle style.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 85, 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4416 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 31 March 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 31 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 81, 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4417 |
From Daniel Oliver [17 March 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Mar 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4418 |
To Ernst Haeckel 3 March [1864]
Summary
Has received EH’s Die Radiolarien. Drawings admirably executed. Had no idea such low animals could develop such beautiful structures.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 3 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4419 |
From Frederick Ransome 7 March 1864
Summary
Acknowledges cancelled bond and thanks CD for declining to accept interest. Suggests 4 Mar 1865 as date for payment of the bill CD holds.
Author: | Frederick Ransome |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4421 |
To Ernst Haeckel 9 March 1864
Summary
Thanks for paper ["Über die Entwicklungstheorie Darwins", Amtl. Ber. Versamml. Dtsch. Naturforsch. Aerzte 38 (1863): 17–30]. Delighted EH confirms his views. Many in England afraid to express views openly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 9 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4422 |
From John Scott 10 March 1864
Summary
Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4423 |
To Daniel Oliver 11 March [1864]
Summary
Struck with corresponding positions of tendrils and flower-stalks in Passiflora. Sends [W. E. Darwin’s] dissection drawings of earliest stages. Infers that tendril is a modified flower peduncle.
Requests DO look at mode of climbing in Tecoma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 11 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 69–70; DAR 261.10: 40 (EH 88206023) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4424 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 March 1864
Summary
Discusses homologies of plant organs.
The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4425 |
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