From J. D. Hooker 17 August 1867
Summary
His opinion of two novels: Mary Barton and North and south [both by Mrs Gaskell].
Sends R. O. Cunningham’s letters.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 174–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5609 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 August 1867
Summary
Has given up Scotland trip due to his mother’s illness.
Asks for Fritz Müller’s full name – "he can help us much".
Reports on self-impregnated Victoria and impregnation of Chatsworth plants. Difficult to get foreman [of gardens] to keep accurate register.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 176–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5619 |
From J. D. Hooker [14 September 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Sept 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5627 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 September 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Sept 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5631 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 October 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 180–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5651 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867
Summary
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5683 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5731 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1867?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Dec 1867?] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5738 |
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