From William Bennett 25 May 1864
Author: | William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4509 |
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- … From William Bennett 25 May 1864 …
- … DAR 160: 147 William Bennett Reigate 25 May 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and nn. 14 and 15, and letter from William Bennett, 29 April 1864 ). For CD’s …
- … plant, see the letter from William Bennett, 29 April 1864 , n. 4. Glyceria is a genus of …
- … William Bennett , had discovered Leersia in Surrey (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 …
From William Bennett 29 April 1864
Summary
Will send grasses CD asked about.
Reports observations on brood of Australian chicks he is hatching.
Author: | William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4475 |
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- … From William Bennett 29 April 1864 …
- … DAR 160: 146 William Bennett Reigate 29 Apr 1864 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bennett, see the letter from William Bennett, 25 May 1864 . In Forms of flowers , p. 333, …
- … William Bennett has not been found; however, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 April [1864] …
- … William Bennett discovered Leersia near his father’s home in Surrey (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 …
To J. D. Hooker [15 May 1864]
Summary
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [15 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 233 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4496 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December [1866]
Summary
Is sending some plants and seeds to JDH.
Thanks Mrs Hooker for telling him of a life of his grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] of which he had not heard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5295 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1864
Summary
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 208–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4469 |
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- … near the village (see n. 14, above, and letter from William Bennett, 29 April 1864 ). …
- … 1864] and nn. 8–10) Both quotations are from James Alexander Brewer’s Flora of Surrey ( Brewer 1863 , p. 272). The first part of the description for Leersia oryzoides is attributed to Hewett Cottrell Watson : ‘On the muddy margin of the river Mole, almost close to the foot-bridge over that river, about midway between East Moulsey Church and Ember Mill, where it will likely be extirpated through changes in progress in 1860–62’. The second part of the description is attributed to Alfred William Bennett : ‘ …
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1872
Summary
William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.
Other family news.
No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.
Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 103–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8176 |
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 |
From John Scott 21 July 1865
Summary
JS has now taken post of Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
Wishes to vindicate himself of the charge that he pursued his experiments at Edinburgh to the detriment of his work.
Apologises for poor quality of his Verbascum paper, which was written from his notes during the passage to India [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 36 (1865) pt 2: 145–74].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B120a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4876 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1864]
Summary
CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.
Leersia.
Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 231 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4471 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters March 1866
Summary
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5022 |
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From J. D. Hooker 8 November 1872
Summary
Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.
Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].
A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 130–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8609 |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bennett, William | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Bennett, William | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |