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:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 178: 61
Summary:
Would like his fowl skulls back.
Breeding experiments seem to show mongrels are just as fertile as pure breeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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