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From Daniel Oliver 18 February 1864

Summary

Thinks the paper by H. Crüger should appear in the Journal of the Linnean Society.

Author:	Daniel Oliver
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	18 Feb 1864
Classmark:	DAR 173: 26
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4411

Matches: 8 hits

… From Daniel Oliver 18 February 1864 …
… DAR 173: 26 Daniel Oliver Kew 18 Feb 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Bibliography Crüger, Hermann. 1864. A few notes on the fecundation of …
… and their morphology. [Read 3 March 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… Royal Gardens Kew 18 Feb y . 1864 My dear M r Darwin I strongly think that Crüger’s …
… his letter to Daniel Oliver of 17 February [1864] , CD enclosed the paper sent by Hermann …
… Crüger in his letter of 21 January 1864 . It was published …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) ( Crüger 1864 ). Oliver was one of the editors of the …

To Auguste Laugel 4 September [1864]

Summary

Thanks for a copy of AAL’s Problèmes de la nature 1864 (Problems of Nature; Laugel 1864).

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Antoine Auguste (Auguste) Laugel
Date:	4 Sept [1864]
Classmark:	Librairie du Manoir de Pron (dealers) (January 2016)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4607F

Matches: 6 hits

… To Auguste Laugel 4 September [1864] …
… January 2016) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Sept [1864] Antoine Auguste (Auguste) Laugel …
… Thanks for a copy of AAL’s Problèmes de la nature 1864 (Problems of …
… Nature; Laugel 1864). …
… The year is established by the reference to Laugel 1864 (see n. 2, below). …
… There is a copy of Laugel 1864 in the Darwin Library–Down. For CD’s health at this time, …

From W. E. Darwin 12 May [1864]

Summary

Observations on style length of 150 flowers of Pulmonaria [angustifolia]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 105.]

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	12 May [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 110: A66–7
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4492

Matches: 14 hits

… From W. E. Darwin 12 May [1864] …
… DAR 110: A66–7 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 12 May [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… 95 ’ 55 pencil — 150 Cover, recto : ‘May 13 th 1864’ pencil ; ‘4’ red crayon, circled …
… red crayon Cover, verso : ‘May 13 1864 | Pulmonaria | (number of Plants of both forms) | …
… heterostyly (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] and nn. 1 and 2; see also Forms of …
… E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] . The diagram is reproduced at 45 per cent of its original size. …
… in DAR 110: A53 (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 10). CD …
… from Friedrich Hildebrand of 21 June 1864 , in which Hildebrand mentioned his experiments …
… Pulmonaria angustifolia on the Isle of Wight in 1863 and 1864 (see letter from W. …
… E. Darwin, 18 April 1864 and nn. 2 and 3). CD recorded William’s observations of …
… each form in his memorandum of 6 May 1864. The long-styled anther that William labelled BV …
… anther size, see the letter to W. E. Darwin, 3 May [1864] and n. 2. See letter to W. …
… E. Darwin, [after 14 April – 5 May 1864] and nn. 3 and 4. …
… angustifolia stigmas with his memorandum of 6 May 1864. See postscript to letter to W. …

From John Scott 14 April [1864]

Summary

Thanks for CD’s consoling letter. His mind cannot concentrate after losing his position, and he feels "an inward dread of life’s future". Would have been glad to work for CD. Understands why Hooker cannot recommend him.

Author:	John Scott
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	14 Apr [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 177: 104
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4463

Matches: 14 hits

… From John Scott 14 April [1864] …
… DAR 177: 104 John Scott Denholm 14 Apr [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… in several editions ( DNB , NUC ). See letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 and n. 6. …
… by the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 . See …
… letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 . Scott had been carrying out numerous experiments …
… for example, letters from John Scott , 19 March 1864 . He had also recently published and …
… 1864a, 1864b, 1864c, and 1864d (see letters from John Scott , 19 March 1864 and nn. …
… 4, 5, and 9, and 28 March 1864 and nn. 13–15, and 17). Scott had recently left …
… House to work on scientific subjects (see letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 and n. 4). …
… Hooker , see letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 . David Page was an Edinburgh geologist …
… at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (see letters from John Scott , 10 March 1864 and …
… 28 March 1864 ). Scott may have been working on the table that was later published in …
… paper to CD with his letter of 5 May [1864] . Scott may also be referring to the table …
… enclosure to letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] . The relatives Scott refers to may be …

To J. T. Moggridge 1[7] July [1864]

Summary

Discusses dimorphism in flowers. Describes his experiments.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	John Traherne Moggridge
Date:	1[7] July [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 146: 373
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4563

Matches: 10 hits

… To J. T. Moggridge 1[7] July [1864] …
… DAR 146: 373 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1[7] July [1864] John Traherne Moggridge …
… elatior ) (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 June [1864] and n. 6, ‘Specific difference in …
… this letter, the letter from George Bentham, 10 July 1864 , and the letter from J. …
… T. Moggridge, 15 July [1864] . The copy is misdated. It is probable that the …
… for a 2. With his letter of 15 July [1864] , Moggridge included seeds and a dried specimen …
… of Trichonema rollii . See letter from George Bentham, 10 July 1864 and n. 5. See letter …
… from J. T. Moggridge, 15 July [1864] . The letter to Moggridge containing CD’s original …
… letter from J. T. Moggridge, 15 July [1864] and n. 4. CD eventually demonstrated that …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 17, and that the latter were distinct …

From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864]

Summary

CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.

Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.

Author:	Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	[18 May 1864]
Classmark:	DAR 210.6: 118
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4442

Matches: 11 hits

… From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864] …
… Henrietta Emma Darwin/Henrietta Emma Litchfield Down [18 May 1864] William Erasmus Darwin …
… to W. E. Darwin, [16 March 1864] , n. 3). …
… diary (DAR 242) for Saturday 21 May 1864: ‘Boys from school’. James Mackintosh Wedgwood. …
… See letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] and n. 6. …
… the letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] , and the letters from W. …
… E. Darwin, 18 May [1864] and [ …
… 19 May 1864] . For CD’s query regarding Menyanthes , see the letter from Emma …
… Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [17 May 1864] . No recent reference to Rhamnus , the buckthorn, …
… 50, and DAR 111. See letter to W. E. Darwin, [14–17 May 1864] and n. 2. George Howard, …
… at Clapham Grammar School in South London in May 1864 (see letter from H. E. Darwin …

From Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey 25 October 1864

Summary

Describes CD’s qualifications for Copley Medal.

Author:	Hugh Falconer
Addressee:	William Sharpey
Date:	25 Oct 1864
Classmark:	DAR 144: 475
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4644

Matches: 20 hits

… From Hugh Falconer to William Sharpey 25 October 1864 …
… DAR 144: 475 Hugh Falconer Montauban 25 Oct 1864 William Sharpey …
… Tarn [et] Garonne | Montauban 25th Oct. 1864. My dear Sharpey Busk and myself have made …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 7 (1864): 69–83. [ Collected papers 2: 93–105. ] Wells, …
… for the Copley Medal on Thursday 27 October 1864; voting on the award of the medal …
… was due to take place on 3 November 1864 (Royal Society, Council minutes). William Sharpey …
… Club of the Royal Society on 27 October 1864 (see Bonney 1919 , p. 168, and letter from …
… J. D. Hooker, 26[–8] October 1864 ). The expedition was financed by the British …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 September 1864] and n. 11, and Falconer 1868 , 2: 554– …
… the cave at Bruniquel (see letters from Hugh Falconer to Grace Milne, 5 October 1864 and …
… 19 October 1864, the Falconer Museum, Forres, Scotland, and Falconer 1868 , 2: 627–8). See …
… for the Copley Medal (Royal Society, Council minutes, 23 June 1864). See letter from E. …
… A. Darwin, 27 June [1864] . Edward Sabine was president of the Royal Society. …
… For the other members of the Council in 1864, see the letter from …
… Charles Lyell, 4 November 1864 , n. 3, and Appendix IV. The list has not been found. To …
… list of CD’s publications (see letter from E. A. Darwin, 27 June [1864] , letter to E. …
… A. Darwin, 30 June 1864 , and letter from E. A. …
… Darwin to Hugh Falconer, 2 July 1864 ). See Appendix IV. Falconer used the term ‘genetic …
… address to the Linnean Society on 24 May 1864 (see Bentham 1864a , pp. xviii–xix). For …

To Ernst Haeckel 19 July [1864]

Summary

Thanks for praise [of Origin].

Comments on EH’s Die Radiolarien.

Grieved EH has suffered calamity [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel].

CD recovering from long illness.

Doing easy botanical work.

Mentions variability.

Discusses reception of CD’s views in Germany.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:	19 July [1864]
Classmark:	Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/4)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4569

Matches: 13 hits

… To Ernst Haeckel 19 July [1864] …
… 1: 1-52/4) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 July [1864] Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel …
… Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur. See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] and n. 20. …
… and the letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] . There is a draft of this letter in DAR …
… 18–20. Letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] . CD may have been shown Die Radiolarien ( …
… ed. 1900, 1: 237). CD received his own copy from Haeckel early in 1864 (see letter to …
… Ernst Haeckel, 3 March [1864] ). See …
… By Charles Darwin. [ Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] . See …
… letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] and n. 18. …
… CD was 55 on 12 February 1864. CD refers to the photograph recently taken by his son …
… the frontispiece to this volume). See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] and n. 15. …
… the manuscript of Variation on 14 September 1864 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, …

To Daniel Oliver 15 June [1864]

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)].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Daniel Oliver
Date:	15 June [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 261.10: 49 (EH 88206032)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4536

Matches: 11 hits

… To Daniel Oliver 15 June [1864] …
… DAR 261.10: 49 (EH 88206032) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 June [1864] Daniel Oliver …
… between this letter and the letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 June 1864 . See letter to Daniel …
… Oliver , [ c. 10 June 1864], and letter from …
… Daniel Oliver, 14 June 1864 . Oliver had given CD the …
… reference to Mohl 1827 in his letters of [1 April 1864] and …
… 14 June 1864. In ‘Climbing plants’ , CD cited the work extensively; he credited Hugo von …
… See letter from Daniel Oliver, [1 April 1864] and n. 5. The reference is to Beer 1863 , …
… p. 3. See letter to Daniel Oliver, 18 March [1864] and nn. 5 …
… and 9, and letter from Daniel Oliver, 18 June 1864 . Joseph Dalton Hooker had sent CD some …
… See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] and n. 5. CD refers to Ueber das Winden …

From W. H. Harvey 8 November [1864]

Summary

The plants from the Cape did not show climbing habit in native country; WHH believes it a consequence of their being grown under disadvantages of climate.

Author:	William Henry Harvey
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	8 Nov [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 166: 117
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4665

Matches: 9 hits

… From W. H. Harvey 8 November [1864] …
… DAR 166: 117 William Henry Harvey Dublin 8 Nov [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… letter from W. H. Harvey, 10 November 1864 . CD’s letter to Harvey has not been found. …
… since July (see memorandum to J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1864? ] and n. 14, and letter …
… to J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] ). Harvey was professor of botany and curator of …
… in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 October [1864] . The memorandum has not been found. See …
… letters from W. H. Harvey, 10 November 1864 and …
… 11 November 1864 . See letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, [28 September 1864] and n. 7. …

To Hugh Falconer 8 November [1864]

Summary

Gratified to receive Copley Medal. Cannot attend anniversary [of Royal Society]. Would HF receive medal for him?

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Hugh Falconer
Date:	8 Nov [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 144: 36
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4664

Matches: 10 hits

… To Hugh Falconer 8 November [1864] …
… DAR 144: 36 Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Nov [1864] Hugh Falconer …
… between this letter and the letter from Hugh Falconer, 7 November [1864] . See …
… letter from Hugh Falconer, 7 November [1864] and nn. 3 and 4. …
… See letter from Edward Sabine, 3 November 1864 . The letter to Edward Sabine communicating …
… Royal Society, Council minutes, 23 June 1864; see also Appendix IV). CD’s letter to Sabine …
… the Council of the Royal Society of London in 1864 (Royal Society, Council minutes). Busk …
… the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society on 30 November 1864 (see Proceedings of the …
… Royal Society of London 13 (1864): 510). CD refers to Charles Lyell and Thomas Henry …
… Post Office London directory 1865). See letter from E. A. Darwin, 1 December 1864 . …

To Richard Kippist 24 November [1864]

Summary

CD sends [to the Linnean Society] a paper "On one of the most curious orchids in the world" [read J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 156–62]. [See 4680].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Richard Kippist
Date:	24 Nov [1864]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4678

Matches: 8 hits

… To Richard Kippist 24 November [1864] …
… Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Nov [1864] Richard Kippist …
… Bibliography Trimen, Roland. 1864. On the structure of Bonatea speciosa , Linn. sp. , …
… to its fertilisation. [Read 1 December 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) …
… The paper was read at the Linnean Society on 1 December 1864, and later published in …
… the Society’s Journal ( Trimen 1864 ). See …
… letter to Roland Trimen, 25 November 1864 and nn. 1 and 2. CD refers to the Council of …
… that accompanied Trimen’s published paper had six figures (see Trimen 1864 , tab. 1). …

To John Scott 8 January [1864]

Summary

Glad correspondent’s paper went well.

Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	John Scott
Date:	8 Jan [1864]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-13882

Matches: 8 hits

… To John Scott 8 January [1864] …
… Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Jan [1864] John Scott …
… by the relationship of this letter to the letters from John Scott , 7 January [1864] and [ …
… 13 January 1864] . …
… With his letter of 7 January [1864] , Scott included a note about a point discussed in the …
… manuscript of Scott 1864a (see letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and enclosure 1). …
… See letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] and nn. 12–14. …
… Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 8 January 1864 recorded ‘4. am–’ and ‘8– am. ’, the times at …

From W. E. Darwin 6 May 1864

Summary

Diagrams of short- and long-styled Pulmonaria under magnification.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	6 May 1864
Classmark:	DAR 110: A75–6
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4487F

Matches: 9 hits

… From W. E. Darwin 6 May 1864 …
… DAR 110: A75–6 William Erasmus Darwin 6 May 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
… see letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 April [1864] and n. 9, and letter to W. …
… E. Darwin, [after 14 April – 5 May 1864] ). William mentioned later that he thought all …
… were ‘more or less bilobed’ (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 12 May [1864] , and n. 7). …
… With his letter to William of 3 May [1864] , CD sent long-styled and short-styled flowers …
… sketches of anthers with his letter of 12 May [1864] ; he sent sketches of anthers in the …
… bud with his letters of 18 May [1864] and …
… 24 May 1864. CD had grown curious about the shape of the stigma in the two forms of the …

From J. D. Hooker 5 February 1864

Summary

John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.

Himalayan pine in Macedonia.

JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	5 Feb 1864
Classmark:	DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4401

Matches: 19 hits

… From J. D. Hooker 5 February 1864 …
… 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 5 Feb 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
… of the Linnean Society on 4 February 1864. George Bentham was president of the Linnean …
… of Scott 1864a (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1864] and nn. 5 and 6). See …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] and n. 4. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
… nos. 6471 and 6476). J. D. Hooker 1864–7 . Bentham and Hooker 1862–83 . Frances Harriet …
… and Drosera , see letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] and nn. 9 and 17. See …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] and n. 15. Hooker probably refers to Henry …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 ). Hooker did not travel to North Africa until …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n. 23. Hooker collected Wedgwood …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 and n. 23. Hooker refers to a defence fund …
… letter from E. A. Darwin, 1 February [1864] and nn. 3 and 5). On the general reluctance …
… Macedonia at the meeting of the Linnean Society on 3 March 1864 ( J. D. Hooker 1864b ). …
… Linnean Society ( Botany ) for 12 December 1864, containing the annotated article, is in …
… Watson to J. D. Hooker of 28 January 1864, Director’s correspondence, vol. 105, …
… Watson to J. D. Hooker of 28 January 1864, Director’s correspondence, vol. 105, …
… see DNB. In his letter of 1 February 1864 to J. D. Hooker (Director’s correspondence, …
… s reply to H. C. Watson of 5 February 1864 is in the Director’s correspondence, vol. …
… Brunswick: F. Vieweg. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1864–7. Handbook of the New Zealand flora: a …

From B. J. Sulivan 23 September [1864]

Summary

BJS’s health much improved by his continental tour.

Author:	Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	23 Sept [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 177: 283
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4622

Matches: 15 hits

… From B. J. Sulivan 23 September [1864] …
… DAR 177: 283 Bartholomew James Sulivan Board of Trade 23 Sept [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… gunnery ship stationed at Plymouth ( Navy list 1864–5). The reference is to Thomas Edward …
… and the letter from B. J. Sulivan, 18 March [1864] . Joseph Dalton Hooker . Sulivan, a …
… letter from B. J. Sulivan, 18 March [1864] , Correspondence vol. 13, letters from B. …
… 4. See also letter from B. J. Sulivan, 18 March [1864] . The reference is to James Young …
… Sulivan , who was appointed acting sub-lieutenant on 1 July 1864, and promoted to sub- …
… lieutenant on 15 November 1864. HMS Excellent was a …
… his visit to Italy and Switzerland in 1864 with his wife, Sophia Sulivan , is mentioned …
… America, since November 1862; he was granted his retirement on 9 September 1864. Under …
… an Order in Council dated 9 July 1864, captains aged 50 and over were eligible for …
… for younger officers to get promotion. Johnson was granted his retirement on 1 July 1864. …
… See Navy list 1864–5 and Report from the select committee on Navy (promotion and …
… Service on 11 June 1863, and Stokes was appointed rear-admiral on 9 February 1864. …
… In April 1864, Usborne succeeded to the command of HMS Bann , a paddle surveying vessel, …

From John Scott 10 June [1864]

Summary

Sends Passiflora paper [see 4485].

Sends seeds of peloric Antirrhinum crossed by normal form and sends results of his experiments [table of crosses].

Author:	John Scott
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	10 June [1864]
Classmark:	DAR 51: B22; DAR 177: 109
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4526

Matches: 13 hits

… From John Scott 10 June [1864] …
… DAR 51: B22; DAR 177: 109 John Scott Denholm 10 June [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
… pollen Peloric Anthirrhinum (P. No. 1) Verso of table : ‘M J. Scott | June 1864’ pencil …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] ). Scott and CD often considered the number, …
… example, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] and n. 6, experimental note in DAR 108: …
… and the letter from John Scott, 5 May [1864] . At CD’s suggestion, Scott had carried out …
… Correspondence vol. 11, and this volume, letters from John Scott , 19 March 1864 and …
… 28 March 1864 and nn. 16 and 17). Scott’ …
… Society , where it was read on 16 June 1864. It was published in the Journal of the …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] and n. 4). CD began crossing experiments on …
… 1863–5, in DAR 51: B18–23). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] and n. …
… 4, and letter from John Scott, 20 June [1864] and n. 6. Scott refers to Carl Ludwig …
… see letter from John Scott, 20 June [1864] and n. 6). Scott’s friend in Edinburgh has not …

To John Scott 20 May [1864]

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.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	John Scott
Date:	20 May [1864]
Classmark:	Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4504G

Matches: 11 hits

… To John Scott 20 May [1864] …
… Archæological Society (1908): 67 Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 May [1864] John Scott …
… assistance on several occasions (see letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 , and letter from …
… John Scott, 5 May [1864] ). See also letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 25 April [1864] and n. 4. …
… and the letter from John Scott, 16 May [1864] , and by the reference to Scott’s Primula …
… red cowslip seedlings in a letter dated 8 May 1864; the letter has not been found ( …
… see letter from John Scott, 16 May [1864] and n. 4). The reference is …
… Linnean Society ( Botany ) in September 1864 ( General index to the Journal of the Linnean …
… crosses to affinities in colour (see letter from John Scott, 16 May [1864] and n. 10). CD …
… vi). See letter from John Scott, 16 May [1864] and n. 9. CD refers to Karl Friedrich von …

To John Scott 21 May [1864]

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.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	John Scott
Date:	21 May [1864]
Classmark:	Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67–8
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4505F

Matches: 13 hits

… To John Scott 21 May [1864] …
… Archæological Society (1908): 67–8 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 May [1864] John Scott …
… 16 May [1864] ). Scott completed the first of these papers ( Scott 1864d ) before his …
… between this letter, the letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 , and the letter from …
… John Scott, 28 May [1864] . The enclosure has not been found, but it was …
… Dalton Hooker’s letter to CD of 19 May 1864 , in which he had offered to assist Scott to …
… see letter from John Scott, 10 March 1864 ). For an indication of the references that …
… see the letter from John Scott, 28 May [1864] . Without Scott’s knowledge, Balfour had …
… see letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 and enclosure). CD gave Scott £25 to purchase …
… second letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] ); this was the first of three gifts that CD …
… made to Scott (see also letter from John Scott, 2 August 1864 , and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, [16 August 1864] , n. 2). CD refers to Scott’s …
… Disemma , and Tacsonia , and on Verbascum (see letters from John Scott , 5 May [1864] and …

To J. D. Hooker [1 April 1864]

Summary

Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[1 Apr 1864]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 226a–b
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4444

Matches: 14 hits

… To J. D. Hooker [1 April 1864] …
… DAR 115: 226a–b Charles Robert Darwin Down [1 Apr 1864] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… See letter from John Scott, 28 March 1864 . William Jackson Hooker was Hooker’s father and …
… Letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 March 1864 . CD probably sent Hooker …
… John Scott’s postscript to his letter of 28 March 1864 (see letter to …
… Daniel Oliver, 31 March [1864] ). Scott had first written to CD about his experiments with …
… see letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 ; Desmond and Hepper 1993, pp. 6–7; and …
… that of curator. At the beginning of April 1864, this post was held by John Smith (1798– …
… 1863] , and this volume, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 , and first letter from …
… John Scott, 10 June [1864] ; see also letter from …
… John Scott, 20 June [1864] ). Scott did not publish this research, nor was it cited in CD’ …
… example, letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] ). Scott also discussed his results on …
… of orchids in his letter of 28 March 1864 ; he published these in Scott 1864b (see also …
… 1867 (see letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. 21). On educational opportunities …

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Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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… Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives the …
… Darwin corresponded little during the first three months of 1864, dictating nearly all his letters …
… had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin exclaimed to his close friend, …
… letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the surgeon and naturalist …
… his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the Copley being open to all …
… five years earlier. His primary botanical preoccupation in 1864 was climbing plants. He had become …
… ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin wrote to Hooker: ‘The …
… produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). Darwin’s excitement about his …
… & therefore sacred’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] ). When Darwin asked Oliver …
… light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] ). Though Darwin replied with his …
… . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October [1864] that he was continuing to study …
… addition to his work on climbing plants, Darwin engaged in 1864 in botanical observations and …
… were produced. Continuing from these earlier studies, in 1864 he conducted crossing experiments …
… in causing sterility both within and between species in his 1864 paper, ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
… trimorphic Lythrum , and when his health permitted in 1864 he drew up the results (see …
… Darwin remarked to Hooker in a letter of 26 November [1864] that nothing had interested him so …
… species with the common oxlip. In a letter of 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly wrote to …
… flowers ). A household enterprise Darwin’s 1864 correspondence with family members …
… Forms of flowers . The greatest assistance in 1864, however, was provided by William, Darwin …
… minute and painstaking observations, writing on 14 April [1864] , ‘I can do as much pollen work …
… letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] ), or his excitement when he …
… for my stomach’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] ). Darwin was also impressed …
… to inspire the research of others as well; he influenced the 1864 publication of a paper by another …
… publish his new material on them. Nevertheless, his work in 1864 contributed to his 1869 paper …
… continuing identification of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again …
… on the orchid Oncidium to the Linnean Society in 1864 (Scott 1864b). Recognising Scott’s skills …
… paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] ). Hooker’s series of …
… over them’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] ). Hooker warned Darwin: ‘Do pray …
… careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). Nevertheless, Hooker solicited and …
… hastening the fall’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 ). In his reply of 25 April [1864] …

Darwin's health

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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…

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… of a fashionable spinal ice treatment. In April 1864, Darwin attributed his improved health to Dr …
… gaining vigour .’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ) Why was Darwin’s so ill? …
… vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 December [1864] ). On Darwin’s early stomach …
… vol. 4). Throughout the winter of 1863 and spring of 1864, he was sick almost daily (see …
… Chapman. In a letter to J. D. Hooker, [20-] 22 February [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), …
… in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and 1865. ‘Bad hysteria & sickness …
… 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] . Treatments and medications …
… doses of chalk, magnesia, and other antacids in March 1864 (see Emma Darwin’s diary, DAR 242, and n. …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ). …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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… an important focus for his experiments. By the spring of 1864, he was thinking of expansion, telling …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864 ). The plan was quickly set in motion, and …
… the work, while William Ledger did the building. By August 1864, he had spent £126 10s. on the new …
… was replaced after Darwin’s death, and one section of the 1864 greenhouse was subsequently …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1864] ). In view of the importance of Darwin …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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… the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, Darwin claimed that sexual …
… (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). Darwin’s theory of …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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… W. E. Darwin's observations on Pulmonaria , 14 April [1864] Ernst Haeckel's …

Natural Science and Femininity

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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…

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… Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 January 1864] Haeckel sends Darwin some …
… Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] Darwin thanks Hooker for …
… Letter 4469 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [20 April 1864] Hooker discusses the scientific …
… Letter 4472 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [26 or 27 April 1864] Hooker once again discusses …

'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

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… for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Annual Report, 1864, p. 32; Animal World , 1 February …
… with the RSPCA; however, the RSPCA Annual Report for 1864 records that 'a benevolent lady, …
… the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, in June 1864 ( The Times , 27 May 1864, p. 11, …
… Darwin 2: 200). Although the RSPCA considered in 1864 that many game preservers had …
… were 'awakening to its barbarity' (RSPCA Annual Report 1864, p. 32), the use of the steel …
… payments being recorded from 1854 to 1861, in 1863 and 1864, from 1871 to 1875, and in 1878 and 1880 …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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… Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [6 June 1864] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, responds …
… Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] Darwin thanks Hooker for …
… - Wright, Charles to Gray, A., [20, 25, 26 March & 1 April 1864] Charles Wright tells …

The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…

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… and Scotland (Lubbock 1862a, 1862b, and 1863a). In the July 1864 issue of Natural History Review …
… address for the British Association meeting at Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By …
… Darwin’s theory ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 213). In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from …
… 3. Letters from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 22 February 1864 and 24 February 1864 (British …
… 12. Letter from Hugh Falconer to John Lubbock, 24 May [1864], in (British Library, Add. MSS 49640) …
… and gentlemen in the formation of the X Club, 1851–1864. Isis 89: 410–44. Bynum, William …
… History Review n.s. 3: 211–19. Lubbock, John. 1864. Cave-men. Natural History Review n …
… revised. London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1864. Presidential address. Report of the …

Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870

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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…

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… & succeeding in India. John Scott to Darwin, 1864. I was astounded at …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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… ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

Science: A Man’s World?

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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…

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… Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 January 1864] Haeckel sends Darwin some …
… Letter 4441 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [30 March 1864] Lydia Becker sends Darwin a copy …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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… Letter 4463 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., 14 Apr [1864] Scott thanks Darwin for his …
… Letter 4468 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 19 [Apr 1864] Darwin makes another plea to his …
… Letter 4469 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 20 Apr 1864 Hooker again refuses to help Scott, …
… Letter 4471 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 25 Apr [1864] Darwin thinks his friend Kew …
… Letter 4611 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 13 Sept [1864] Darwin sends abstract of John Scott …
… Letter 4441 — Becker, Lydia to Darwin, C. R., 30 Mar 1864 Becker sends Darwin a copy of her …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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… Civil War. DARWIN: 157 February 1864… My dear Gray. It is now six months since I …
… 1863 157 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 25 FEBRUARY 1864 158 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 …
… 27 OCTOBER 1862 168 TO ASA GRAY 29 OCTOBER 1864 169 FROM ASA GRAY 5 …

Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865

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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…

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… a period of severe illness, which improved by March 1864 under the care of the physician William …
… his brain or heart to be ‘primarily affected’. In March 1864, Darwin began to consult Jenner, who …
… Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864], letter from William Jenner to …

Darwin and Fatherhood

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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…

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… daughter reveal (J. D. Hooker to Darwin, 16 September 1864 ). In addition to his fears for …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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… for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had staunchly supported his candidacy, …
… to CD’s theory of transmutation, in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to …
… ), and wrote up his results on his voyage to India in late 1864, despite suffering from sea-sickness …
… in learned societies and in the popular press. In December 1864, George Douglas Campbell, the duke …
… this and that modification of structure’ (G. D. Campbell 1864, pp. 275–6). Campbell argued further …

3.5 William Darwin, photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…

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… the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. …
… among the prints that William posted to his father in May 1864, since the photograph subsequently …
… simply inscribed by hand on the back in pencil ‘C. Darwin 1864’ – the accuracy of the dating …
… Erasmus Darwin   date of creation April 1864   computer-readable date 1864-04 …
… William Darwin’s letter to his father [19 May 1864] sending prints of his recent photograph (DCP …

Darwin’s Photographic Portraits

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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…

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… far more satisfied with the results. In 1860-61 and again in 1864 Charles Darwin sat for his eldest …
… photographs of Darwin.The years between 1860 and 1864 took a physical and emotional toll on Darwin, …
… and the Botany Libraries (left) and Charles Darwin, 1864, William Darwin, Dar 225:113, …
… took the first portrait with his ‘venerable beard’ in 1864. Image: Charles Darwin, 1881, …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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… able to work’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [ c . 10 April 1864] ). To the physician Henry Holland, …
… History every day’ ( letter to Henry Holland, 6 November [1864] ). Writing to the clergyman and …

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