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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (80)
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".

Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 85, 173–4
Summary:

Has drawn all three forms of primroses CD sent "with same result". Has found no pink variety with middle style.

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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 31 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 81, 104
Summary:

Encloses memorandum on tendrils. Nature of tendrils in Modecca.

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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Mar 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 107
Summary:

Observations on climbing species of Tacoma. [Tecoma!?]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/2)
Summary:

Has received EH’s Die Radiolarien. Drawings admirably executed. Had no idea such low animals could develop such beautiful structures.

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From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 24–5
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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
9 Mar 1864
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/3)
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.

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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 101
Summary:

Has left his position at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
11 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 69–70; DAR 261.10: 40 (EH 88206023)
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.

Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 103
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.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 188
Summary:

List of four plants sent.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 59 (EH 88206042)
Summary:

Thanks for information on Tecoma.

Cannot believe DO’s statement about Catasetum; is sure C. tridentatum sets seeds in its native country.

CD erred on Acropera, but how is it naturally fertilised?

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