Royal Botanic Garden Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England
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Missouri Botanical Garden Library, St Louis, Missouri
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National Botanic Gardens of Ireland Library, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland
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University of Birmingham, Winterbourne House and Garden
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From John Scott 8 January [1868]
Summary
Asks CD for memorandum giving his opinion on a proposal to move the site of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Gives details of the position, the physical character and the climate of the present site to show how desirable a move would be.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5351 |
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- … move the site of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Gives details of the position, the physical …
- … Press [in association with the] Royal Botanic Gardens. Hadfield, Miles. 1960. Gardening in …
- … A cyclone on 2 November 1867 destroyed much of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta; the …
- … disadvantages of the garden’s lowland site on the banks of the tidal River Hooghly near …
- … Roy l Bot Gardens | Calcutta 8 th . Jan y . 1867 Dear …
- … Dr. Anderson the Superintendent of the Gardens, to solicit you to favor us with a short …
- … the desirability that the now ruined Bot. Gardens of Calcutta should be transferred to one …
- … R. Desmond 1992 . The Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, administered a Cinchona plantation …
- … 20 January 1865 ). Workers from the Calcutta garden also often collected plants in the …
- … Kendrick Thwaites , director of the botanic gardens in Peradeniya, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). …
- … superintendents of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta; see also Gardeners’ Chronicle , 28 …
- … successful acclimatisation in British gardens, see Hadfield 1960 , pp. 17–18, 358, 414– …
- … rare indeed that any visitors come to the Garden, and these are all but confined to a two …
- … public is concerned with the Botanic Gardens as a scientific institution—I do assure you …
- … will sanction, in their transferring the gardens—namely give them in lieu a public park on …
- … in part of the sale of our present garden site. Secondly—with regard to the physical …
- … we can bestow— This should not be in a tropical garden— I can afford you no more emphatic …
- … Gangetic delta for the purposes of a Botanic Garden than by noting the character of the …
- … or 100 years. The oldest in the Botanic Gardens does not I believe exceed 90 years, and I …
- … to the unsuitability of sites for Botanic Gardens! The dwarf vegetation is also extremely …
- … reference to the present condition of the gardens, I may say that it is all but destitute …
- … recommendation for the continuation of the gardens on the present site. — It would be a …
- … we could have both our thoroughly tropical garden and at higher elevations others for the …
- … cyclones) would we soon raise a Botanic Garden worthy of the presidency of Britains …
Moore, Charles (b) (1820–1905)
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- … Moore 1820–1905 Botanist. Gardener at the Trinity College Botanic Garden, Dublin, 1835–8. …
- … Gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1847. Emigrated to Sydney, Australia, in 1848. …
- … HMS Havannah in 1850. Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 1848–96. R. Desmond 1994 . …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … Bristol, Pa. : Taylor & Francis. 6,7,10,17 Havannah Trinity College Botanic Garden Royal …
- … Botanic Gardens …
- … Botanic Gardens Dublin Kew Sydney Australia South Pacific Botanist Gardener …
To the syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden 4 December 1878
Summary
Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden |
Date: | 4 Dec 1878 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11770 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden …
- … To the syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden 4 December 1878 …
- … Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge]. …
- … Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Dec 1878 Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden …
- … the curatorship of the Cambridge Botanic Garden; he was appointed to the position on 14 …
Williamson, Alexander (1819–70)
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- … of the pleasure grounds at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1848–66. R. Desmond 1995 . …
- … Bibliography Desmond, Ray. 1995. Kew: the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens. London: …
- … Harvill Press with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. …
- … 11,13 pleasure grounds Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Scottish gardener …
To John Scott [after 8 January 1868]
Summary
Supports relocating the Calcutta Botanic Garden to a site near the Himalayas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 116v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5352 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Supports relocating the Calcutta Botanic Garden to a site near the Himalayas. …
- … Bibliography McCracken, Donal P. 1997. Gardens of empire: botanical institutions of the …
- … The reference is to the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. See letter from John Scott, 8 …
- … and John Scott’s efforts to relocate the garden were unsuccessful (see McCracken 1997 , …
- … indigenous plants cultivated in the garden to other countries; with this aim as well as …
- … experiment w d be an immense advantage if the Garden were situated near the Himalaya, so …
- … be observed cultivated & propagated. As the garden has now been so [ relatively cleared ] …
- … I have always understood that the present Gardens stand at an extremely low level; & are …
- … plants. plants foreign to the country where the Garden is established & the exportation of …
From Robert Thomson 24 July 1864
Summary
Observations on insects visiting Melastomataceae.
Author: | Robert Thomson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4574 |
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- … DAR 178: 117 Robert Thomson Botanic Garden, Jamaica 24 July 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … resources of the West Indies. Royal Gardens, Kew. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. …
- … on the road to Annotto Bay. Land for the garden at Castleton had been purchased in 1857. …
- … under Wilson’s direction, helped to establish the new garden ( Morris 1898 , pp. 137–44). …
- … who was curator of the oldest botanical garden in Jamaica, located at Bath, was also …
- … the establishment of a new botanical garden at Castleton, nineteen miles north of Kingston …
- … Botanic Garden | Golden Spring P.O. | Jamaica 24 July 1864 Sir Being informed by M r . …
- … I was appointed M r Wilson’s assistant by Sir W. Hooker in Kew Garden two years ago. I …
- … am engaged in the formation of a new Botanic Garden. There is not the slightest attempt at …
- … Flora of the Island. The chief object of the garden is as a Nursery for the propogation of …
- … were systematically represented, the garden would acquire an important position, and be of …
Royal Gardens, Kew. 1899. Catalogue of the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (Royal Gardens, Kew, Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Additional Series 3). London.
Bain, John (1815–1903)
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- … John Bain 1815–1903 Irish-born botanist. Gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London. …
- … Assistant curator, Trinity College Garden, Dublin, 1850–62; curator, 1862–75. R. Desmond …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa. : Taylor & Francis. 12 Chelsea Physic Garden Trinity …
- … College Garden, Dublin Chelsea London Dublin Irish-born botanist …
McNab, William (1780–1848)
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- … McNab 1780–1848 Scottish gardener. Gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1801–10. …
- … Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1810–48. R. Desmond 1994 . …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa. : Taylor & Francis. 11 Royal Botanic Gardens Royal …
- … Botanic Garden Kew Edinburgh Scottish gardener …
Bell, William (c. 1833–1916)
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- … Bell c. 1833–1916 Scottish-born gardener. Gardener, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. …
- … Head gardener, Saharanpur Botanic Garden, India, 1862. Returned to Edinburgh in 1869. R. …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … History Museum. Bristol, Pa. : Taylor & Francis. 11,23 Royal Botanic Garden Saharanpur …
- … Botanic Garden Edinburgh India Scottish-born gardener …
Smith, John (b) (1798–1888)
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- … gardener and pteridologist. Gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 1818; at …
- … the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1822. …
- … Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1842–64. R. Desmond 1994 Taxonomic literature . …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … Netherlands: W. Junk. 1976–88. 6,9,10,11,12,13,14,20 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Kew Scottish gardener pteridologist …
Black, A. A. (1832–65)
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- … born botanist. First curator of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1853–64. …
- … Superintendent, Botanic Garden, Bangalore, India, 1864. R. Desmond 1994 Scotland old …
- … plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the …
- … and the Natural History Museum. Bristol, Pa. : Taylor & Francis. 11 Royal Botanic Gardens …
- … Botanic Garden Kew Bangalore India Scottish-born botanist …
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human evolution in Commentary
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … learned from the antics of the orang-utans at the Zoological Gardens in Regent’s Park that beasts …