From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
18 May 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.73-74, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: B43–7
Summary:
Sends specimens of Menyanthes with observations and drawings [see Forms of flowers, p. 115].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[19 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 186
Summary:
Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 116
Summary:
Sends dandelion [enclosed] with peculiar form of achene; suggests this solitary "sport" must have arisen by sudden jump from normal type.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Nasmyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.83
Summary:
Hopes JH and Lady Herschel will be able to visit them on some days named. Will write respecting trains as soon as they hear the answer.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 May 1864
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 350
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 18]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A7
Summary:
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Tharp Girdlestone
Date:
20 May 1864
Source of text:
MS 8692, box 943/1(a), La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Brewer
Date:
20 May 1864
Source of text:
MS 100, William Henry Brewer Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
20 May [1864]
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67
Summary:
Corrects his former account of cowslips.
The delay in the publication of JS’s Primula paper.
Delights in JS’s experimentation on Verbascum which confirms [C. F.] Gärtner’s statements.
Should be pleased if JS would accept offer of help.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
21 May [1864]
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67–8
Summary:
Encloses an extract from a letter received from [J. D.] Hooker which suggests a job opportunity in India. Advises careful reflection about the risks and the need for a character recommendation. Would like to support the costs of the voyage and initial living expenses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Merchants Taylor Co.
Date:
[21 May 1864]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (62)
Summary:
Compliments to the company.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 May 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 236, 236b
Summary:
Praises ARW's paper on Man.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[22 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 81
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 236
Summary:
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
