To John Scott 15 January 1872
Summary
Is resuming the study of worm-casts as he believes they will bear on the denudation of land. Requests specific information on the relative number, size, and manner of deterioration of worm-casts in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8159F |
From John Scott 22 March 1872
Summary
Describes habits of worms.
Discusses Leersia experiments.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8249 |
To John Scott 15 April [1872]
Summary
JS’s valuable observations on worms in India along with Asa Gray’s in the United States confirm CD’s opinion that worms work in the same way all over the world. Requests further information on the subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 15 Apr [1872] |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8287F |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Scott, John | (3) |
| Scott, John | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Scott, John | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
