From:
William Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 109: A88–9
Summary:
Informs CD of two distinct forms of Plantago lanceolata.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 239
Summary:
W. H. Harvey’s dandelion case worth publishing.
Suspects the uniform Primula elatior JDH referred to is a distinct species.
Scott’s paper on Passiflora shows variability of reproductive systems.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[c. 10 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044)
Summary:
Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 27
Summary:
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 49 (EH 88206032)
Summary:
L. H. Palm [Über das Winden der Pflanzen (1827)] is better on climbing plants than H. von Mohl [Über den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen (1827)].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 227–8
Summary:
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
Contributor:
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From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 302
Summary:
Has been informed Miss E. Watts retiring from poultry department of the Field and would like to take the post if made available. Asks CD if he would provide a reference for him if necessary.
Has bred and reared a young turtle-dove.
On progress of his lawsuit.
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June [1864]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 19)
Summary:
Doesn't think will be able to find Buckthorn. Sends reference from Revue de Deux Mondes. Is settled at the Bank.
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 28
Summary:
Thanks for photograph.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
19 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 372
Summary:
Discusses fertilisation of flowers by bees. Thanks JTM for drawings.
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:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 202
Summary:
Studying insect pollination in Salvia
and heterostyly in Pulmonaria officinalis which is similar to Linum case.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 229
Summary:
JDH going to visit W. H. Harvey in Ireland.
New curator at Kew.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 239b, 240
Summary:
John Scott preparing to leave soon.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B28–9
Summary:
CD will be proposed for the Copley Medal. Hugh Falconer wants information: list of all CD’s papers, dates of the voyage, things not judicious to mention, when his sickness came on, etc.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B30
Summary:
Henry Holland thought CD would be interested to know that Buxton’s brewery cannot go on with their own yeast, but are obliged to interchange with other breweries.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
30 June 1864
Source of text:
ML 1: 247–8; DAR 154: 67
Summary:
Has heard nothing about the Copley Medal. Is grateful for Hugh Falconer’s interest [see 4546].
Supplies details about circumstances of his voyage on the Beagle.
Does not believe that his sea-sickness was the cause of his subsequent ill-health.
Encloses the requested list of publications [see 4550].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11)
Summary:
CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.
JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.
Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.
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