To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1865]
Summary
Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4825 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 May [1865]
Summary
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 268a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4827 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865]
Summary
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4836 |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |