From John Scott 25 September 1872
Summary
Acting as Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Observations on worm-castings in India.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8534 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Hooker, 29 August 1872 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 October 1872 ). The …
- … Smee Ayrton , see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 August [1872] and n. 1. The abstract of …
- … Hooker, 29 August 1872 ). King, the superintendent of the botanic gardens in Calcutta, had returned to England on medical leave (see enclosure to letter from J. D. …
From John Scott to J. D. Hooker 31 October 1872
Summary
Thanks Hooker and Darwin for the money to emigrate to India to work.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence Vol. 156, Indian letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1900, f. 1087) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8587F |
To John Scott 26 October 1872
Summary
Acknowledges JS’s excellent letter of 25 September. May CD assume that the gigantic worm-casts were nearly circular when measured before the rain?
That a medical man should always have the place of superintendent seems a piece of jobbery.
Mentions [George] King.
JS’s thin paper renders some words on other side almost illegible.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 26 Oct 1872 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8578F |
To John Scott 12 August 1872
Summary
Acknowledges a box of worm-casts from India and a bottle of worms in spirits. There is no memorandum.
His book on expression is finished and includes valuable information from JS.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 12 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8465F |
To John Scott 11 December [1862]
Summary
Criticises style of JS’s fern paper [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 16 (1862): 209–27].
JS’s remark on "the two sexes counteracting variability in the product of the one" is new to CD.
Does the female [fern?] plant always produce female by parthenogenesis?
They seem to work on same subjects; CD has much material on Drosera.
Does not understand JS’s objections to natural selection.
Offers to suggest experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 11 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B37, B49–52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3853 |
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