From J. H. Balfour to John Scott 24 May 1877
Summary
Thanks JS for valuable Manual of opium husbandry, and congratulates him on his success in India.
Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 24 May 1877 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10971F |
From John Scott 24 February 1877
Summary
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
His work on poppy varieties confirms increased vigour with crossing.
JS is carrying out opium poppy experiments CD suggested. He is busy with opium duties. Observing many fields of poppies, day and night, JS finds them remarkably free of insects. Believes they are wind-pollinated and that varieties have prepotent pollen since he has shown they do not cross naturally.
Plans to send a paper on Cyclosis to Linnean Society.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10864 |
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From John Scott 12 April 1877
Summary
Comments on various species of Lagerstroemia.
In the series of opium poppy intercrosses made at CD’s suggestion, JS has learned that the reason they failed to intercross was the absence of insects at the period of their flowering.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 207–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10928 |
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- … From John Scott 12 April 1877 …
- … DAR 47: 207–9 John Scott Bankipore 12 Apr 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of poppy, see the letter from John Scott, 24 February 1877 . Alexis Jordan had argued that …
- … truly | John Scott 4.2 I have … climates. 4.6] crossed blue crayon ; ‘April 1877’ added …
- … 1877. Heard, Tim A. 1999. The role of stingless bees in crop pollination. Annual Review of Entomology 44: 183–206. Jordan, Alexis. 1860. Diagnoses d’espèces nouvelles ou méconnues pour servir de matériaux à une flore de France réformée. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 7: 373–518. Scott, John. …
Scott, John. 1877. Manual of opium husbandry: for the use of officers in the government agencies of Behar and Benares. Calcutta: Bengal Secretary Press.
Burdon Sanderson, John Scott. 1877–8. Lectures on the infective processes of disease. British Medical Journal, 22 December 1877, pp. 879–81; 29 December 1877, pp. 913–15; 5 January 1878, pp. 1–2; 12 January 1878, pp. 45–7; 26 January 1878, pp. 119–20; 9 February 1878, pp. 179–83.
From Ebenezer Turnbull 17 June 1880
Summary
Information about the death of John Scott, his nephew.
Author: | Ebenezer Turnbull |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 198: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12638F |
To John Scott 15 April [1872]
Summary
JS’s valuable observations on worms in India along with Asa Gray’s in the United States confirm CD’s opinion that worms work in the same way all over the world. Requests further information on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 15 Apr [1872] |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8287F |
To F. J. Cohn 3 January 1878
Summary
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310 |
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- … Bibliography Burdon Sanderson, John Scott. 1877–8. Lectures on the infective processes of …
- … 1877 . Cohn had sent CD the third and last issue of the second volume of Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen (Contributions to the biology of plants), a journal that he edited. It contained an article by Robert Koch , ‘Verfahren zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren und Photographiren der Bacterien’ (Method for examining, preserving and photographing bacteria; Koch 1877 ). It is not known when John Scott …
To Horace Darwin 1 November [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11221 |
From G. J. Romanes 2 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for letter. Values CD’s opinion more than that of anybody else.
Perfectly astonished at reception CD got among popular audiences at GJR’s lectures.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11283 |
From Asa Gray 5 December 1876
Summary
Dimorphism and cleistogamy in Hottonia.
AG wants new, unambiguous term for what is now referred to as "dimorphism", "dioecio-dimorphism", or "heterostyly"; proposes "heterogone".
Sends an excerpt from Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club 2 (June 1871) on Hottonia inflata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 192, DAR 111: A92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10699 |
From John Scott 6 January 1863
Summary
Sends Primula scotica and P. farinosa.
So far cannot fertilise Gongora atropurpurea although it is similar to Acropera luteola.
Experimenting on intergeneric hybrids to test CD’s view that sterility is not a special endowment.
Scott’s personal history.
Acropera capsule grows.
Plans for experiments CD has suggested on Primula, peloric Antirrhinum, and Verbascum.
Asks about Gärtner’s experiments on maize.
Aware of Anderson-Henry’s failures.
Through kindness of J. H. Balfour and James McNab, enjoys facilities for research. JS is in charge of the propagating department. Balfour almost engaged him to be superintendent of the Madras Horticultural Garden.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 81, 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3904 |
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- … Scott, John. 1867. On the reproductive functional relations of several species and varieties of Verbasca. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 36 (pt 2): 145–74. Shaw, John. 1877. …
- … 1877 , p. 46). In 1864, Scott became head of the herbarium at the botanic garden in Calcutta ( Transactions of the Botanical Society [of Edinburgh] 14 (1883): 160–1). CD was interested in dimorphism in Melastomataceae (see letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] and n. 22). In his letter to John …
To C. E. Norton 16 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for Chauncey Wright’s work [Philosophical discussions (1877)].
Gladstone visited recently, and they discussed the future role of the United States as a world power.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
Date: | 16 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1596) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10895 |
From John Scott 21 July 1865
Summary
JS has now taken post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Wishes to vindicate himself of the charge that he pursued his experiments at Edinburgh to the detriment of his work.
Apologises for poor quality of his Verbascum paper, which was written from his notes during the passage to India [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 36 (1865) pt 2: 145–74].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B120a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4876 |
From George King 28 September 1880
Summary
Sends two preserved pigs (showing some hereditary phenomenon) that the late John Scott intended for CD.
King has all of Scott’s papers.
Author: | George King |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12729 |
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- … John Scott was forced to return to Britain from India on two years’ sick leave after developing a spleen complaint. He died at his sister’s house at Garvald, East Lothian, on 11 June 1880 ( ODNB ). King was superintendent and Scott had been curator at the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. The specimens have not been found. CD had been sent specimens of imperfectly developed animals in response to his discussion of polydactylism and inheritance in Variation 2: 12–17; for an instance of a pig’s foot, see Correspondence vol. 25, letter to Otto Zacharias, 26 April 1877 . …
From George Bentham 15 February 1880
Summary
Has been at work on Orchideae for Genera plantarum and has found CD’s Orchids wonderfully useful. Comments on some problems of botanical terminology.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12482 |
From F. J. Cohn 31 December 1877
Summary
Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.
J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.
Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11298 |
From T. H. Farrer 5 September 1877
Summary
Sends two papers on Roman ruins at Cirencester, which he asks CD to return.
Worm observations.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11129 |
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