From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 99
Summary:
Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.
Sends promised Linum seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 [Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 100
Summary:
Regrets sending his MS missing two pages.
Has proofs of his paper on the monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
J. H. Balfour objected to notion of maize descent from a hermaphrodite.
Reading of JS’s paper on Selaginella hybrid [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 192–9] deferred until March. Believes it is first example of experimentally produced hybridity in higher cryptogams.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 300
Summary:
Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Hardcastle; Mary Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 255
Summary:
On his deathbed her husband [Francis] expressed admiration for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Goodwin Mumbray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 318–318/1
Summary:
Has verified J. M. Bechstein’s contention that species of finches hybridise.
Quotes Thomas Bewick’s observations on hybrids between pheasants and common fowl. RGM had often noticed so-called "pheasant fowl", but thought it was a foreign bird.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 174: 17
Summary:
Collecting subscriptions for a school at Ford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hermann Crüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 278
Summary:
Sends his MS of orchid paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for CD to send to an editor.
CD was right about Catasetum sexes.
Ficus experiments fail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 176–9
Summary:
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Jan – 8 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 97
Summary:
Botanists are obliged to regard tendrils as either leaf- or stem-formations. Vitis, Passiflora, and Clematis are discussed. [See 4398.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 182
Summary:
Bentham proposes John Scott be made an associate of the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B23–4
Summary:
Tells of a declaration and a subscription list to defend the rights of Bishop Colenso.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 [Mar] 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 189–92
Summary:
Reception of Scott’s paper.
Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.
Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.
Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.
Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.
Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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!?]
Contributor:
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