From J. D. Hooker 13 December 1876
Royal Gardens Kew
Dec 13/76
Dear Darwin
6 Banana go today, not best kind— better will ripen ere long. A little white-sugar brings out flavor wonderfully— I find this with all fruit.1
We have an unnamed Suteria in Herb. with flower like this.2
I enclose Forsythia flowers all we have on our specimens are like them. In spring (early) we shall have lots of flowers of both species.3 I cannot think it right in Gunther to make of hearsay imputations reports to official bodies, & I think that the conduct of the Trustees: forwarding such officially to the Government is very bad. Whose character is safe under such charges?
Gunther not only repeats the report of Archer, but says that he is disposed to believe it—& this without the slightest investigation.4
Ever aff yrs | Jos D Hooker.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Endersby, Jim. 2007. A guinea pig’s history of biology: the plants and animals who taught us the facts of life. London: William Heinemann.
Forms of flowers: The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1877.
Summary
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10715
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 71–2
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10715,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10715.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24