From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 7
Summary:
Inquires about CD’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 222–4
Summary:
JDH is writing letters for Scott, whose temper will be "no obstacle for Hindoos and Musselmen working under him".
New curator at Kew finds considerable neglect, with hundreds of plants dying.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 8
Summary:
Cannot get any Stellaria graminea for CD. It is rare. Some, producing different kinds of flowers, once grew in Sandgate, Kent. Variations in flowers need to be re-examined.
Contributor:
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From:
Patrick Matthew
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 92
Summary:
Would like to meet CD.
He is writing a piece on the Schleswig-Holstein affair which will expose the British press.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A60–1
Summary:
Sends observations on seeds of Pulmonaria officinalis requested by CD.
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 108
Summary:
Discusses cost of trip to India and CD’s offer to advance sum. Thanks Hooker for assistance. Would prize a scientific testimonial from CD.
Contributor:
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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].
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 110
Summary:
Thanks CD for £25. Discusses preparations for trip to India.
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.
Contributor:
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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:
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:
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.
Contributor:
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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.
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:
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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