From Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [17 May 1864]
Summary
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [17 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 219.1: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4498F |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
To Charles William Crocker 31 January [1864]
Summary
Reminds CWC that he offered to give information with respect to his observations on hollyhocks. Wishes he could persuade CWC to undertake experiments on the fertility of some crosses between the most distinct varieties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles William Crocker |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1864] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3425 |
To Asa Gray 28 May [1864]
Summary
Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids
– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.
Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.
How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?
He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 28 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4511 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 11, letter to W. E. Darwin, [5 May 1863] and n. 6). For CD’s observations on gyno-dioecism in 1864 see the letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 …
- … 11, letter from Asa Gray, 7 July 1863 , and letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] ). CD was interested in this North American species, now known as Triodanis perfoliata , because it bears cleistogamic flowers (see Forms of flowers , p. 330). CD refers to the dimorphic species Pulmonaria angustifolia , which he thought might represent a transition from heterostyly to what he later called ‘gyno-dioecism’, in which species include both hermaphrodite and female individuals on different plants (see letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 …
To J. D. Hooker [27 January 1864]
Summary
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 Jan 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4398 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 June [1864]
Summary
L. H. Palm [Über das Winden der Pflanzen (1827)] is better on climbing plants than H. von Mohl [Über den Bau und das Winden der Ranken und Schlingpflanzen (1827)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 15 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 49 (EH 88206032) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4536 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14 June 1864. In ‘Climbing plants’ , CD cited the work extensively; he credited Hugo von Mohl with many original contributions (see, for example, pp. 1, 5–6, 9, 49), while criticising some of his observations and conclusions (see, for example, pp. 48, 72). CD was particularly concerned to redress botanists’ exclusive attention to homologies. On pp. 110–11 …
From W. H. Harvey 8 November [1864]
Summary
The plants from the Cape did not show climbing habit in native country; WHH believes it a consequence of their being grown under disadvantages of climate.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4665 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] ). Harvey was professor of botany and curator of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin ( R. Desmond 1994 ). CD had enclosed a memorandum for Harvey in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 October [1864] . The memorandum has not been found. See letters from W. H. Harvey, 10 November 1864 and 11 …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14. Carbonate of magnesia had evidently been prescribed by William Jenner , along with other antacids and purgatives, when he first visited CD on 20 March 1864 (see letter from William Jenner to Emma Darwin, [17 March 1864] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 6). Scott published his work on lycopods, or club-mosses, in Scott 1864c (see letter from John Scott, 12 [February 1864] and nn. 10 and 11); …
To Roland Trimen 13 May 1864
Summary
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 13 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4493 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11, letter from Roland Trimen, 16 March 1863 , and letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] . CD refers to an error in his description of the position of the viscid discs of the pollinia in relation to the passages leading to the nectary (see Poulton 1909 , p. 227, n. 3). The erratum sent to the Journal of the Linnean Society has not been found. Trimen’s additional observations on Disa grandiflora were presumably sent in his missing letter to CD of 14 …
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14 April [1864] . The reference is to John Hutton Balfour . CD had also sent Hooker a postscript to a letter of Scott’s from March 1864 (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 31 March [1864] and n. 5). The Royal Horticultural Society employed gardeners to manage their gardens at Chiswick and Kensington (see Fletcher 1969 ). Hooker had been working on the government-sponsored Handbook of the New Zealand flora ( J. D. Hooker 1864–7 ) for over a year (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
From J. D. Hooker 16 February 1864
Summary
CD’s climbing plant experiments make it impossible to deny nerve force in plants.
Has discussed Frankland’s new glacial theory with Lyell.
Bishop Colenso’s trial.
Possibility of Scott’s coming to Kew as a curator.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 183–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4408 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11); see letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] and n. 15. There is a lightly annotated copy of Thury 1863 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Hooker refers either to David Thomas Ansted’s The Ionian islands in the year 1863 ( Ansted 1863a , pp. 196–7, 334–7), or to an article Ansted published in the last issue for 1863 of the quarterly Popular Science Review ( Ansted 1863b , pp. 464–5). John Lindley . Joseph Ellison Portlock died on 14 …
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| Darwin, Emma | (4) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (4) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (46) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (19) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (5) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (5) |
