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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 |
To Arthur Rawson 6 June [1863]
Summary
CD thanks the sender of a Cypripedium. He finds its pollination contrivances interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Rawson |
| Date: | 6 June [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5563 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Rawson, Arthur | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Rawson, Arthur | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
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Charles Thomas Whitley
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Born in Liverpool in 1808, Charles Thomas Whitley, like Darwin, attended Shrewsbury School and then Cambridge University where they were clearly very close, exchanging letters during the summer holidays. Whitley was a mathematician, a subject that held…
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- … of a martinet and every inch a ‘don’” ([Anon.] 1895 p. 606) – and indeed as he wrote to Darwin …
