From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David James Brown
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.299)
Summary:
Discusses DJB’s MS concerning the origin of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 [Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 230
Summary:
Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.
Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
Date:
21 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 117
Summary:
Writes about a land transaction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 231
Summary:
CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.
Leersia.
Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 122
Summary:
Writes of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A8, A10
Summary:
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
4 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031)
Summary:
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 13
Summary:
Experiment instructions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
6 May [1864]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32)
Summary:
Recommends paper by John Scott to be read at Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
6 May [1864]
Source of text:
Murch 1893, pp. 436–7
Summary:
Thanks WL for his MS on coral and suggests that it be sent to the Geological Society for printing or preserving in the archives.
Comments on his and WL’s bad health and recalls WL’s past kindness to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
13 May 1864
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59)
Summary:
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[14–17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A3
Summary:
Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5
Summary:
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 May 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 233
Summary:
Praises ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 233
Summary:
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
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:
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:
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:
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
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