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From Frederick Ransome   7 March 1864

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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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  • … company (see Correspondence vol.  11, CD memorandum, 14 February 1863, letter to D.  T.   …

To J. D. Hooker   26[–7] March [1864]

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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

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  • … 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]

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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

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  • 14 n. The hothouse, accommodating stove-plants, at Down House was completed in February 1863; a greenhouse had been built in the 1850s (see Correspondence vol.  11, …

From Daniel Oliver   12 March 1864

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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

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  • 11); he also commented: ‘we can hardly avoid asking, whether the difference between foliar and axial organs can be of so fundamental a nature as is generally supposed to be the case’ ( ibid. , pp.  113–14). …