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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B25–6
Summary:

Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of surplus specimens; thinks "our progenitors" may well be there.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 229
Summary:

CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.

Health improving.

Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.

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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A68–74
Summary:

Observations on [length of style and length of filament and stigmas of] Pulmonaria.

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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 104
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s consoling letter. His mind cannot concentrate after losing his position, and he feels "an inward dread of life’s future". Would have been glad to work for CD. Understands why Hooker cannot recommend him.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 301
Summary:

No doubt that Owen wrote "Oken" and the archetype book, which appeared in its second edition in French.

Pressures of work and family.

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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: A77–81b
Summary:

CD is right about variability [of Pulmonaria]. Encloses observations and diagrams of additional plants.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 [Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 230
Summary:

Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.

Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 208–13
Summary:

Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
21 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 117
Summary:

Writes about a land transaction.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 231
Summary:

CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.

Leersia.

Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 or 27] Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 214–17
Summary:

JDH on John Scott.

Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.

Working on variation in New Zealand flora.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 92
Summary:

Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.

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From:
William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 146
Summary:

Will send grasses CD asked about.

Reports observations on brood of Australian chicks he is hatching.

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From:
Unidentified
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 174: 1
Summary:

On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.

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From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr – 19 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 181: 9
Summary:

Recalls being introduced to CD when [undergraduate] at Cambridge.

Sends CD some of his pamphlets

and expresses support of Origin.

Has discovered there are "3 sexes" in the solitary Cynips as well as social insects.

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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 84
Summary:

[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from red cowslip, magnified 350x.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[14–17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A3
Summary:

Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A8, A10
Summary:

Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
4 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031)
Summary:

Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].

Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.

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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15? Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B19–20
Summary:

Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.

Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.

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