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DCP-LETT-4501

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 220–1
Summary:

JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.

Conversation with Herbert Spencer.

George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.

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DCP-LETT-4369

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 19 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 83
Summary:

[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from a red cowslip.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4504

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A82, A87–8
Summary:

Clarifies his letter of 18 May [4500].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4504F

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 142: 95
Summary:

Taeas [?] allied to L. hyssopifolia. [Cover containing packets of seed specimens.] Mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (fS 4512).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4505

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 7
Summary:

CCB thought CD wanted live specimens, but now will send some dried ones from his herbarium.

Contributor:
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4509

From:
William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 147
Summary:

Sends plant and directions to his home so that CD’s gardener may call for another plant.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4513

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 107; Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68
Summary:

Discusses the negative testimonial provided him by James McNab.

Sends testimonial from J. H. Balfour.

Would be glad if offered the sort of colonial opportunity Hooker suggests.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4514

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B14–19
Summary:

Argues the antiquity of the human species because natural selection acts differently with respect to men. Changes in man are largely confined to head and brain. Warfare and sex are very uncertain as means of selection.

Gives CD complete credit for theory of natural selection.

Is beginning his narrative of his travels.

Lyell argues against tracing man as far back as Miocene times. R. I. Murchison’s argument that Africa is the oldest existing land implies that Africa is the place to look for early man.

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WCP1859

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May [1864]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B14-19
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 43-46
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 155-159]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4518

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

DCP-LETT-4519

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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DCP-LETT-4521

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.

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DCP-LETT-4522

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

DCP-LETT-4523

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4524

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4527

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4529

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.

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DCP-LETT-4530

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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