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… Robert Thomson 1840–1908 Gardener. Trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. …
… Assistant gardener, Castleton Botanical Garden, Jamaica, 1862; superintendent 1867–78. …
… Desmond, Ray 1994 Morris, Daniel 1898: 144 17 Royal Botanic Gardens …
… Botanic Gardens Kew Castleton Jamaica Gardener …

From John Scott 8 January [1868]

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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

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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 …

Royal Zoological Gardens

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… Royal Zoological Gardens …

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]

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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

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… 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

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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.

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… 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. 6 …

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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British Association meeting 1860

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Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…

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… by Natural Selection—a theory open—like the Zoological Gardens (from a particular cage in which it …

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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… John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Letters to J. D. Hooker, …
… John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Letters to J. D. Hooker, vol …

Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings

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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…

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… to the new assistant director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, …

Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours

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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…

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… 25 January . He had been troubling Hooker and others at Kew gardens for more plants to aid his …

Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep

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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…

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… , pp. 96–7). As usual, staff at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, were enrolled as researchers, as …

Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'

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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…

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… seeds and fed them to ocean-going birds in the zoological gardens in London. As he cheerfully …

Visiting the Darwins

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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…

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… Mr. Church came down to lunch with us, to see the Gardens— He brought me a beautiful photo of …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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… Kendrick Thwaites, the director of the Peradeniya botanic gardens in Ceylon. Closer to home, Darwin …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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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 …

Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots

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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…

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… hope that trials might be carried out at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. ‘It would be of no use to …

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