From J. D. Hooker 9 [March] 1864
Summary
Reception of Scott’s paper.
Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.
Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.
Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.
Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.
Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 [Mar] 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 189–92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4404 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1864]
Summary
Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Dec 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 262–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4708 |
From John Cook Gould 10 October 1864
Summary
Encloses an extract concerning beans from the Systema Horticultureæ of 1688 by J. Worlidge. Will be pleased to lend the volume if needed.
| Author: | John Cook Gould |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.2: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4631A |
From W. H. Harvey 10 November 1864
Summary
Identifies South African species of plants that are normally non-climbers in the wild but climb freely when grown from seed at Glasnevin. Thinks there is probably a gradation in the wild between climbing and non-climbing varieties related to the degree of exposure each particular plant faces.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4668 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 February 1864
Summary
John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.
Himalayan pine in Macedonia.
JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4401 |
From John Scott 28 May [1864]
Summary
Discusses the negative testimonial provided him by James McNab.
Sends testimonial from J. H. Balfour.
Would be glad if offered the sort of colonial opportunity Hooker suggests.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 107; Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4513 |
| letter | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Gould, J. C. | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Gould, J. C. | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
