From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 120
Summary:
Describes habits of worms.
Discusses Leersia experiments.
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 121
Summary:
Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Observations on worm-castings in India.
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From:
John Scott
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Oct 1872
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence Vol. 156, Indian letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1900, f. 1087)
Summary:
Thanks Hooker and Darwin for the money to emigrate to India to work.
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb 1877
Source of text:
DAR 177: 122
Summary:
Thanks for Cross and self-fertilisation.
His work on poppy varieties confirms increased vigour with crossing.
JS is carrying out opium poppy experiments CD suggested. He is busy with opium duties. Observing many fields of poppies, day and night, JS finds them remarkably free of insects. Believes they are wind-pollinated and that varieties have prepotent pollen since he has shown they do not cross naturally.
Plans to send a paper on Cyclosis to Linnean Society.
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1877
Source of text:
DAR 47: 207–9
Summary:
Comments on various species of Lagerstroemia.
In the series of opium poppy intercrosses made at CD’s suggestion, JS has learned that the reason they failed to intercross was the absence of insects at the period of their flowering.
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