From Lydia Ernestine Becker 30 March 1864
Summary
Sends CD a copy of her book [Botany for novices (1864?)], intended to encourage the young, especially ladies, to study nature.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4441 |
From H. E. Darwin to W. E. Darwin [18 May 1864]
Summary
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [18 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4442 |
From Daniel Oliver [1 April 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4443 |
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 J. D. Hooker [2 April 1864]
Summary
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4445 |
From Alfred Newton 2 April 1864
Summary
Marvels that seeds from the lump of clay on the partridge’s foot have germinated. At Zoological Society [J. E.?] Gray ridiculed him. Now Frank Buckland would like to see the specimen.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4446 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 April 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4448 |
From Robert Swinhoe 4 April 1864
Summary
Reports on a strange breed of sheep at Aden,
a Brazilian plant naturalised in Ceylon,
the Australian Casuarina equisetum spreading in Taiwan,
and an excrescence on wing of several thrushes of Taiwan similar to a growth on wing of a Syrian species.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (Letters): 254–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4449 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 April [1864]
Summary
Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.
CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 227a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4450 |
From Philip Henry Gosse 5 April 1864
Summary
Asks how he can identify pollen-tubes.
Has succeeded in impregnating orchids of widely different genera with each other’s pollinia. "Is not this something new?"
Offers to exchange Catasetum for other varieties.
Author: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4451 |
To George Howard Darwin [after 5 April 1864?]
Summary
Enquires about the relationship of English grains to French milligrammes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 Apr 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4451F |
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 |
To Alfred Newton 6 April [1864]
Summary
CD has thrown away injured partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 6 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4453 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 6 April 1864?]
Summary
Calculates the relationship between grains and milligrams; asks his mother for a fruit tart and twelve napkins.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 6 Apr 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4453F |
To P. H. Gosse 7 April [1864]
Summary
Discusses microscopic observation of pollen tubes.
Unable to exchange orchids because of his illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Date: | 7 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.298) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4454 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1864]
Summary
CD apologises for having asked JDH to help him with Scott and now seeks advice on how to break the news.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4455 |
From Alfred Newton 7 April 1864
Summary
CD need not worry about having discarded the partridge’s foot.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4456 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1864
Summary
Men of Scott’s Celtic temperament are very troublesome. Tries to dissuade CD from hiring him as a scientific gardener.
George Rolleston, not Spencer, wrote review of Schleiden [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 187–99].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 206–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4457 |
From E. A. Darwin 9 April [1864]
Summary
Lyell thinks an expedition should be sent to the caves in Borneo, supported by the sale of surplus specimens; thinks "our progenitors" may well be there.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4458 |
To John Scott 9 April 1864
Summary
Regrets that JS has left the [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden and that [J. D.] Hooker is not in a position to secure a foreign appointment for him. Offers financial assistance on the grounds of science.
Has sent JS a copy of the Reader.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 9 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4458F |
Darwin, C. R. | (143) |
Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Darwin, E. A. | (15) |
Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
Darwin, C. R. | (202) |
Hooker, J. D. | (45) |
Darwin, W. E. | (11) |
Oliver, Daniel | (11) |
Scott, John | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (345) |
Hooker, J. D. | (83) |
Darwin, W. E. | (25) |
Scott, John | (24) |
Oliver, Daniel | (21) |