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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1864.04. Heteromorphic cowslip-polyanthus plants. CUL-DAR108.149-150. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).

"Scott, John, 1838-80. Botanist and gardener. Correspondent with CD from 1862 on botanical matters. "The only naturalist who can be described as a pupil of Darwin's" [sic]. Poulton, Darwin and the Origin, 1909, p. 53. 1859-64 On staff at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He left Edinburgh "at what...he considered discouragement and slight". 1862 CD to Hooker, "I have been corresponding largely with him: he is no common man". CCD10:598. 1863 CD to S, "I cannot help doubting...whether you fully comprehend what is meant by Natural Selection". CCD11:213. S's name appears on the presentation list for 'Two forms…Linum' (F1723). 1864 CD to Hooker, "I have paid the poor fellow passage out to India". CCD12:319. CD had thought of employing him at Down House, and suggested that Hooker take him on at Kew. S left for Calcutta at the end of the year without having secured a post. 1864 S visited Down. 1865- Curator Botanic Garden Calcutta. 1867 Brief biography by Sir George King, "shy and modest almost to being apologetic", "almost morbidly modest". ML1:217. 1867 CD to Hooker, he had had a nice letter from S on acclimatization. 1871 S offers to repay his fare. CD replies strongly that he is "a rich man" had given it as a present, not as a loan. 1873 FLS. S helped with Expression, p. 21, "The habit of accurate observation, gained by his botanical studies, has been brought to bear on our present subject". 1877 Became an expert on opium husbandry, Manual of opium husbandry, Calcutta. See CCD11-24." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)

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Black thread means pollen of own individual flower

Double black thread means pollen of another plant of same form.—

White thread — one form by pollen of other form

(Black wool means fertilised by pollen of red equal-styled Cowslip which is a seedling from J. Scott's original plant.)

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Heteromorphic Cowslip-polyanthus plants April 1864

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Homomorphic Cowslip-Polyanthus plants April— 1864 (Parentage given last year)

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This plant became beginning of June very unhealthy

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Black thread means pollen of own individual flower, or plant, when it had pollen.

Double black pollen from another plant of ~~same~~ form.— marked by X

White thread one form by pollen of other form

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