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DCP-LETT-4401

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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DCP-LETT-4445

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222
Summary:

JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.

John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.

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DCP-LETT-4508

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: A89–93, B48–50
Summary:

Encloses drawings of Menyanthes and Pulmonaria anthers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4526

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 51: B22; DAR 177: 109
Summary:

Sends Passiflora paper [see 4485].

Sends seeds of peloric Antirrhinum crossed by normal form and sends results of his experiments [table of crosses].

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DCP-LETT-4558

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82
Summary:

Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.

Comments on some climbing plants.

Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].

Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.

Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.

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DCP-LETT-4621

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 14; DAR 115: 250a–c
Summary:

Pleased with news of BAAS meeting

and Scott’s possible position as Thomas Anderson’s curator.

Suggests Wallace is due for a Royal Medal.

Agrees with JDH’s criticism of Lyell’s address [see 4614].

Bentham’s Linnean Society address treats continuity of life in a vague non-natural sense.

Rereading his old MS [Natural selection] CD is impressed with work he had already done.

Writing Variation much harder than Climbing plants.

Encloses request to JDH to propose, or suggest on his behalf, that the Ray Society publish a translation of C. F. von Gärtner’s Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849).

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DCP-LETT-4641

From:
Charles Buxton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 375, 394
Summary:

Forwards a letter from his head brewer, Laurence Burleigh, on yeast. They seldom exchange yeast with other brewers, and he doubts whether weak yeast from one brewery will ferment strongly in another.

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DCP-LETT-4699

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 109: A87; DAR 165: 145
Summary:

Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.

Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.

Discusses the Civil War.

Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.

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DCP-LETT-4708

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 262–3
Summary:

Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.

Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.

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FL-0317

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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FL-0318

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[March 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 116
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0448

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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FL-0449

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. 17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 80
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0450

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[22 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 81
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0451

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[3 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 82
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0452

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[16? June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 83
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0602

From:
Margaret
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[September 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 1
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0603

From:
Thorley, Emily
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 2
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0646

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[7 June 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0647

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

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