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 |
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 16 February 1864 and n. 11, and 9 [March] 1864 and n. 14). Jukes’s two most recent …
- … 14 n. , CD thanked Veitch ‘for having generously given me a large collection of fine specimens of climbing plants’. CD’s Classed account book (Down House MS) indicates that this work was completed by August 1864; he spent at least £126 10 s. on the new greenhouse and on adapting the old one into an enclosed greenhouse or ‘cool stove’, which was kept at a high humidity but cooler than the hothouse. See Correspondence vol. 11, …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4426 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 March 1864
Summary
Discusses homologies of plant organs.
The passion-flower tendril should be considered a modified branch rather than a modified flower. Considers the distinction between the peduncle and the leaf midrib.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4425 |
letter | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Ransome, Frederick | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Ransome, Frederick | (1) |