From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 110
Summary:
Thanks CD for £25. Discusses preparations for trip to India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
10 June 1864
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68
Summary:
Letter of recommendation stating his high opinion of John Scott.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 111
Summary:
Preparations for trip to India. Thanks for testimonial.
Surprised by the self-fertility of CD’s peloric Antirrhinum.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 112
Summary:
Asks for additional financial aid for trip to India.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 113
Summary:
Thanks CD for loan of £10.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 114
Summary:
Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].
Describes his situation in Calcutta.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 115
Summary:
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 109: B120a–b
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].
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 116
Summary:
Asks CD for memorandum giving his opinion on a proposal to move the site of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Gives details of the position, the physical character and the climate of the present site to show how desirable a move would be.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
[after 8 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 116v
Summary:
Supports relocating the Calcutta Botanic Garden to a site near the Himalayas.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1867
Source of text:
DAR 157a: 106
Summary:
Sends seeds of Viola roxburghiana which produces perfect flowers in the cold season and imperfect ones in the rains, all perfectly fertile.
Leersia has not produced a single perfect flower though it grows freely.
Discusses cockatoos eating various seeds. Finds it difficult to make exact and satisfactory observations.
Appends list of Vandellia species which have perfect flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 118
Summary:
Replies to CD’s query on expression of emotions.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 85: A106–6a
Summary:
Observations on expression and variation in Asian peoples: when colour of beard and hair differ, beard is always lighter. Differences in swimming strokes. Polydactylism.
Has just sent Hooker a paper on Sikkim tree-ferns [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 30 (1875): 1–44, read 1870].
Has had fever since the end of the rains.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
1 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 185: 111
Summary:
JS should not consider repaying CD; the money was a gift, not a loan.
JS’s information on expression is the best he has received.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 120
Summary:
Describes habits of worms.
Discusses Leersia experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 121
Summary:
Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Observations on worm-castings in India.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
2 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
23 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B1–2
Summary:
CD too unwell to read. JS should not send Primula paper MS until CD returns home.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
24 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B3–4
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.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
25 Sept [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 97
Summary:
Regrets CD’s poor health.
"Do not return Primula MS."
Contributor:
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