From John Scott 19 March 1864
Summary
On fertilisation of Gongora.
His work on peloric Antirrhinum, Passiflora, and Verbascum, done at CD’s suggestion, is at CD’s disposal.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4432 |
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 |
From William Bernhard Tegetmeier 1 February 1864
Summary
Would like his fowl skulls back.
Breeding experiments seem to show mongrels are just as fertile as pure breeds.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4761 |
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- … 1867, evidently retaining some so that they could be drawn as illustrations for Variation (see letters …
- … 1: 260–70 (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 6 January [1867] ( Calendar no. 5347)). No …
- … letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 . Tegetmeier mentioned his results in Tegetmeier 1867 , …
- … 1867] ( Calendar nos. 5347 and 5431), and Variation 1: 265). The Gordon Hotel, 3 Piazzas, Covent Garden ( Post Office London directory 1865) was probably a collection address. On 1 December 1862, the council of the Royal Society of London resolved to grant Tegetmeier £10 for ‘experiments on the cross-breeding of pigeons’ (Royal Society, Council minutes, 1 December 1862). CD’s interest in Tegetmeier’s work resulted from his shifting views on the causes of cross and hybrid sterility, which prompted him to seek further experimental evidence, especially with regard to animals (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
To Asa Gray 29 October [1864]
Summary
Sends question [missing] for an ornithologist.
Is plodding on at Variation.
Has added to Climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 29 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (88) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4647 |
From John Scott 16 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks for communicating Oncidium sterility paper [see 4485] to Linnean Society.
Surprised that CD’s seedlings of non-dimorphic cowslip breed true.
Surprised also that the red primrose he sent reverts to wild form. He had reasoned from red’s infertility with yellow that it was an established variety. Tries to correlate inheritance of colour and sterility between varieties.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4498 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 February [1864]
Summary
Returns WBT’s box of skulls. One or two skulls may be elsewhere, but CD does not have the strength to search for them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5389 |
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To F. T. Buckland 11 December [1864]
Summary
Asks for comparison of otter-hounds’ feet with those of other dogs.
Changes in oysters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 7 (EH 88206059) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4713 |
From John Scott 20 June [1864]
Summary
Preparations for trip to India. Thanks for testimonial.
Surprised by the self-fertility of CD’s peloric Antirrhinum.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4541 |
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 |
From Frederick Ransome 7 March 1864
Summary
Acknowledges cancelled bond and thanks CD for declining to accept interest. Suggests 4 Mar 1865 as date for payment of the bill CD holds.
| Author: | Frederick Ransome |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 24–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4421 |
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- … letter from Frederick Ransome, 6 February 1866 ( Calendar no. 5150)). Ransome had been attempting to relaunch the company under the name ‘the Patent Concrete Stone Company’ at new premises, but the company did not go into full-scale production until 1867 ( …
- … 1867, pp. 671–2). CD’s reply has not been found; however, see n. 2, above. For correspondence with Ransome in 1865 and 1866, see n. 2, above. Although no letters …
From Andrew Murray 15 February 1864
Summary
A regular column is to appear in the Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society on successful and failed interspecific crosses.
| Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 326 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4407 |
From Hermann Kindt 16 September 1864
Summary
CD’s views go hand-in-hand with those of Ludwig Büchner.
He requests an autograph for a friend.
| Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4615 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 October [1864]
Summary
Huxley has answered Kölliker in Natural History Review [(1864): 566–80].
CD is correcting two of Scott’s papers; is convinced primrose and cowslip are two good species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4630 |
From John Scott 28 March 1864
Summary
Surprised at CD’s account of Bryanthus.
H. Crüger’s approach to Gongora fertilisation is beset with difficulties.
Reports his work on self-sterility of Oncidium.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4438 |
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- … letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. 9. The article by Isaac Anderson -Henry has not been found in the Scottish Farmer ; however, see Anderson-Henry 1867 , …
- … 1867 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In 1863, Anderson-Henry reported to CD his successful production of Bryanthus erectus from crossing the two genera Rhodothamnus and Menziesia (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 13 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased that Bentham is cautious about Naudin’s view of reversion. CD can show experimentally that crossing of races and species tends to bring back ancient characters.
Suggests Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung [1849] be translated
and that Oliver review Scott’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] for a future issue of Natural History Review.
Is working on Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 249a–b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4612 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1864]
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.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 238a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4525 |
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 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 January 1864
Summary
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B8–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378 |
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- … letter from A. R. Wallace, 19 November 1866 ( Calendar no. 5280), and Wallace 1867 ). …
- … 1867 and 1868 writing The Malay Archipelago ( Wallace 1869 ); he spent the preceding three years in preparatory work related to his collections. See Wallace 1905 , 1: 405–6. Wallace refers to Henry Walter Bates’s recently published and successful book, The naturalist on the river Amazons ( Bates 1863 ); CD had encouraged Bates’s work on the book and had assisted him in its publication. See Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
From Hermann Crüger 21 January 1864
Summary
Sends his MS of orchid paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for CD to send to an editor.
CD was right about Catasetum sexes.
Ficus experiments fail.
| Author: | Hermann Crüger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 278 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4394 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1864]
Summary
Has found incipient stages of adhesive discs in Hanburia tendrils.
Huxley was probably right to have challenged Sabine, but the poor old man is sick.
CD remembers the old Disraeli novel [Tancred (1847)] that sneers at transmutation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 256 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4712 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1867 and J. D. Hooker 1881 ). The reference is to the German journal Botanische Zeitung . Daniel Oliver often provided CD with references to German and French articles (see, for example, letter …
- … 1867 is in the Darwin Library–Down. An English translation of Hofmeister’s 1851 book, Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Entfaltung und Fruchtbildung höherer Kryptogamen … und der Samenbildung der Coniferen (On the germination, development, and fructification of the higher Cryptogamia and on the fructification of the Coniferae), was published in 1862, with substantial revisions and additions, by the Ray Society ( Hofmeister 1862 ). Hooker had a long-running interest in the geographical distribution of plants (see, for example, J. D. Hooker 1853 , and Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
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| Kindt, Hermann | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Scott, John | (3) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Scott, John | (7) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
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- … Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that …
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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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…
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