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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201
Summary:

John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.

Himalayan pine in Macedonia.

JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.

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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[February 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 115
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 February 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 79
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
[c. 17 Feb 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 162
Summary:

Sends, for identification, specimens of bees and wasps which fertilise orchids. [Notes in FS’s hand on the same sheet identify the specimens.]

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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 [Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 100
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.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 182
Summary:

Bentham proposes John Scott be made an associate of the Linnean Society.

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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B23–4
Summary:

Tells of a declaration and a subscription list to defend the rights of Bishop Colenso.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
6 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B33–4
Summary:

JS’s Primula paper was read at the Linnean Society and praised warmly by G. Bentham. Hooker was not present.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 219
Summary:

Compares Clematis and Tropaeolum with respect to touch response. Tropaeolum shows a momentary response and quick recovery. Clematis takes hours to respond, and shows no recovery.

CD can show the gradations between leaves and tendrils, but how a branch passes into a tendril utterly puzzles him.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
9 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B17–19
Summary:

Bentham so impressed with JS’s paper that he is invited to become Associate Member of Linnean Society.

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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 220
Summary:

John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.

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From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 326
Summary:

A regular column is to appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society on successful and failed interspecific crosses.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 183–5
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.

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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 142
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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 58 (EH 88206041)
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.

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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 26
Summary:

Thinks the paper by H. Crüger should appear in the Journal of the Linnean Society.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20–]22 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 221a–c
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?

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 186–7
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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 [Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 222
Summary:

Asks for a Smilax to study movement.

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From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 178: 61
Summary:

Would like his fowl skulls back.

Breeding experiments seem to show mongrels are just as fertile as pure breeds.

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