From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 234
Summary:
Forwards two character references for John Scott, for position JDH is arranging in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
31 May 1864
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £242 11s. 10d.
Thanks JH for his kind enquiries about CD’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 235
Summary:
Request for climbing plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 237
Summary:
Requests climbing plants.
Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 238a–c
Summary:
CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.
Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.
W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[c. 10 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044)
Summary:
Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
10 June 1864
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68
Summary:
Letter of recommendation stating his high opinion of John Scott.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 239
Summary:
W. H. Harvey’s dandelion case worth publishing.
Suspects the uniform Primula elatior JDH referred to is a distinct species.
Scott’s paper on Passiflora shows variability of reproductive systems.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 49 (EH 88206032)
Summary:
L. H. Palm [Über das Winden der Pflanzen (1827)] is better on climbing plants than H. von Mohl [Über den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen (1827)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 June [1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 47)
Summary:
Short reply to ARW’s long letter. Reaffirms belief in sexual selection.
Postscript on M.-J.-P. Flourens’ "little dull book against me" [Examen du livre de M. Darwin (1864)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
19 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 372
Summary:
Discusses fertilisation of flowers by bees. Thanks JTM for drawings.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
25 June [1864]
Source of text:
Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
Summary:
Thanks for orchids.
Recovering from nine months’ illness.
Discusses fertilisation of Pulmonaria.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 239b, 240
Summary:
John Scott preparing to leave soon.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
28 June [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.300)
Summary:
Family matters; CD’s feelings on death of FW’s son [James Mackintosh Wedgwood, 1834–64].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
30 June 1864
Source of text:
ML 1: 247–8; DAR 154: 67
Summary:
Has heard nothing about the Copley Medal. Is grateful for Hugh Falconer’s interest [see 4546].
Supplies details about circumstances of his voyage on the Beagle.
Does not believe that his sea-sickness was the cause of his subsequent ill-health.
Encloses the requested list of publications [see 4550].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 July [1864]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 716)
Summary:
Asks for names of plants mentioned in an article in Natural History Review ["South European Floras", n.s. 4 (1864): 369–84] so he can get seeds.
Also would like specimens of the two forms of Aegiphila.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 July [1864]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 708)
Summary:
Thanks GB for specimens [of Aegiphila] and his information.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 241
Summary:
Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
12 July [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 8)
Summary:
Thanks for his book [Physical geology and geography of Great Britain, 2d. ed. (1864)].
Pleased that ACR’s glacial lake theory is progressing. New Zealand lakes support the view. Suggests he write to Charles Gould in Tasmania, calling his attention to glacial action.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
13 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 50 (EH 88206033)
Summary:
If CD understood Nepenthes, he would understand every class of climbers.
Contributor:
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