From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 106
Summary:
References to and résumés of articles on climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 172: 41
Summary:
Marvels that seeds from the lump of clay on the partridge’s foot have germinated. At Zoological Society [J. E.?] Gray ridiculed him. Now Frank Buckland would like to see the specimen.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 202
Summary:
JDH has written to J. H. Balfour for a character reference for John Scott.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (Letters): 254–5
Summary:
Reports on a strange breed of sheep at Aden,
a Brazilian plant naturalised in Ceylon,
the Australian Casuarina equisetum spreading in Taiwan,
and an excrescence on wing of several thrushes of Taiwan similar to a growth on wing of a Syrian species.
Contributor:
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From:
Philip Henry Gosse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 79
Summary:
Asks how he can identify pollen-tubes.
Has succeeded in impregnating orchids of widely different genera with each other’s pollinia. "Is not this something new?"
Offers to exchange Catasetum for other varieties.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311)
Summary:
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
Contributor:
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 6 Apr 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 100
Summary:
Calculates the relationship between grains and milligrams; asks his mother for a fruit tart and twelve napkins.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 172: 42
Summary:
CD need not worry about having discarded the partridge’s foot.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 206–7
Summary:
Men of Scott’s Celtic temperament are very troublesome. Tries to dissuade CD from hiring him as a scientific gardener.
George Rolleston, not Spencer, wrote review of Schleiden [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 187–99].
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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".
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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