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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gosse, P. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Gosse, P. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … positive ([Brewster] 1838; see also Manier 1978, pp. 40–5) which Darwin read in August 1838 …
