From John Scott [3 June 1863]
Summary
Thanks CD for influence used with Hooker to obtain a colonial position. Has offended J. H. Balfour by refusing the Darjeeling post and James McNab has become unfriendly, although his experiments do not detract from his garden work.
Will write Primula paper for Linnean Society as CD suggests.
His Darwinism is unpalatable at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Describes results with non-dimorphic Primula species. Such cases do not accord with CD’s view that characters are slowly acquired.
Thanks for criticism of his writing style.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4202 |
To John Scott 6 June [1863]
Summary
CD has spoken to Hooker of JS’s scientific merit, but has not suggested him for a colonial appointment.
Advice on style of writing.
Making extensive extract of JS’s orchid paper to communicate to Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 6 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B38–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4206 |
To John Scott 11 June [1863]
Summary
Hooker is impressed by JS’s MS on closing of stigma.
He will help find him a position. Hooker says if it is known that JS agrees with CD’s views, he will be unpopular in Edinburgh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 11 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4212 |
From John Scott 16 June [1863]
Summary
Orchid paper in press.
Asks CD to correct MS of his Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4213 |
To John Scott 2 July [1863]
Summary
CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.
Thanks for Passiflora trials.
"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."
CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 2 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4229 |
From John Scott 23 July [1863]
Summary
Discusses heterostyly in Hottonia.
Criticises L. C. Treviranus’ statements on Primula longiflora’s having short-styled form.
Describes his results with crossing different coloured primroses. Will let CD, when he reads his paper, decide whether his finding white and red varieties perfectly sterile when crossed, yet fertile inter se, ought to be published.
Difficulty in getting his orchid paper published in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4252 |
To John Scott 25 [July 1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to continue work on coloured primrose. No one has noticed this since Gärtner. CD will send his own data for JS’s use and will read MS when ready. Advises JS to repeat experiments if evidence is weak – for his reputation’s sake and for satisfaction at fully establishing a fact.
Treviranus made a slip of pen in writing of Primula longiflora as short-styled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 25 [July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B45–6, B69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4253 |
To John Scott 1 and 3 August [1863]
Summary
Thanks JS for orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50]. JS presents excellent new facts on sterility of orchids.
His argument that coloured primroses are not hybrids is good, as is idea of discovering primrose parentage by breeding for colours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 1 and 3 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B24, B27–8, B70; DAR 147: 455 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260 |
From John Scott 21 September [1863]
Summary
Sends Primula MS, which CD has promised to communicate to Linnean Society [see 4213].
Will soon send results on peloric Antirrhinum.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4301 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 23 September [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 23 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4302 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 24 September [1863]
Summary
JS’s MS [of Primula paper] arrived, but CD is too ill to read it.
CD has sent JS’s paper on orchid sterility to Botanische Zeitung and to Hooker.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 24 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4304 |
From John Scott to Emma Darwin 25 September [1863]
Summary
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4307 |
To John Scott 7 November [1863]
Summary
Has read JS’s paper [MS of "Observations on the functions and structure of the reproductive organs in the Primulaceae", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] which has interested him greatly. Will communicate it to the Linnean Society if JS carries out a few corrections.
Would like to hear about his Verbascum and Passiflora experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 7 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4332 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 19 November [1863]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4343 |
From John Scott 7 January [1864]
Summary
Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].
Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4382 |
From Emma Darwin to John Scott 9 January 1864
Summary
CD thinks JS’s Primula paper is fit for publication; he will send it on to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 9 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4383 |
From John Scott [13 January 1864]
Summary
Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.
Sends promised Linum seeds.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4385 |
From John Scott 12 [February 1864]
Summary
Regrets sending his MS missing two pages.
Has proofs of his paper on the monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
J. H. Balfour objected to notion of maize descent from a hermaphrodite.
Reading of JS’s paper on Selaginella hybrid [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 192–9] deferred until March. Believes it is first example of experimentally produced hybridity in higher cryptogams.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 [Feb 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4386 |
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 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 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
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Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
Balfour, J. H. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
Scott, John | (45) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Scott, John | (97) |
Darwin, C. R. | (89) |
Darwin, Emma | (5) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
Balfour, J. H. | (2) |