To John Scott 6 June [1863]
Summary
CD has spoken to Hooker of JS’s scientific merit, but has not suggested him for a colonial appointment.
Advice on style of writing.
Making extensive extract of JS’s orchid paper to communicate to Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 6 June [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B38–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4206 |
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- … but has not suggested him for a colonial appointment. Advice on style of writing. Making …
- … to ask him to remember you for a Colonial appointment: all that I have done is to speak …
From John Scott 16 June [1863]
Summary
Orchid paper in press.
Asks CD to correct MS of his Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4213 |
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- … solicited his aid in finding a better colonial appointment; CD had consulted Joseph Dalton …
Newton, Edward (1832–97)
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- … official. Held a succession of appointments in the colonial service, including colonial …
From J. D. Hooker 6 April 1864
Summary
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4452 |
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- … he clearly cannot be suited to a Colonial appointment: as a gardener, in short, he never …
From John Scott 22 May 1863
Summary
J. H. Balfour has arranged a position for him at a Cinchona nursery. Reluctant to take this position in part because of his experiments for CD.
Asks CD’s advice and solicits his aid in finding a better colonial position. James McNab mistreats him.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4177 |
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- … aid me in getting some foreign or colonial appointment. I should certainly regard it as a …
From John Scott [after 12] April [1863]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Has not published much because he would be ignored as a gardener; hence he is looking for a foreign appointment.
Has prepared orchid sterility paper at CD’s suggestion [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 12] Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4087 |
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- … succeed in getting a foreign or colonial appointment. At your suggest
〈 ion I have〉 drawn up …
From John Scott [3 June 1863]
Summary
Thanks CD for influence used with Hooker to obtain a colonial position. Has offended J. H. Balfour by refusing the Darjeeling post and James McNab has become unfriendly, although his experiments do not detract from his garden work.
Will write Primula paper for Linnean Society as CD suggests.
His Darwinism is unpalatable at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Describes results with non-dimorphic Primula species. Such cases do not accord with CD’s view that characters are slowly acquired.
Thanks for criticism of his writing style.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4202 |
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- … D r . Hooker; he obtains for me a colonial appointment, you will have no cause to regret …
From James Philip Mansel Weale 9 January 1867
Summary
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A113–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5355 |
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- … Kingdom late in 1866 after his appointment as colonial botanist was terminated, evidently …
- … appointment was controversial. Weale’s two letters to the Great Eastern (see n. 13, above) were intensely critical of Brown’s botanical knowledge and skill. Weale also accused Brown of preaching rather than collecting specimens, and of extravagant spending. Brown promoted the study of botany while in South Africa as colonial …
From John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone 20 June 1872
Summary
Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
| Date: | 20 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, pp. 41–9. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8403F |
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- … Colonial Offices, on all subjects connected with horticulture, forestry, botany, and the appointment …
From William Henry Harvey 19 May 1864
Summary
Sends dandelion [enclosed] with peculiar form of achene; suggests this solitary "sport" must have arisen by sudden jump from normal type.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4503 |
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- … appointment and teaching responsibilities, see Praeger 1913 , pp. 210–11 and 218–19. The specimens are preserved in the envelope to this letter. Harvey had studied South African plants during his employment as colonial …
| Scott, John | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Scott, John | (5) |
| Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Sexual selection in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
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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- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
