To J. D. Hooker 23 October [1873]
Summary
Neptunia is evidently a hopeless case.
Good news that fluid of Nepenthes is acid.
No discovery ever gave him more pleasure than proving a true act of digestion in Drosera.
Has become profoundly interested in Desmodium. Asks whether Frank [Darwin] can look over the whole dried collection of the genus.
Has JDH any seed of Lathyrus nissolia?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 282–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9108 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]
Summary
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 423–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10644 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … a synonym of D. fullonum ; see letter from Francis Darwin, [1 June 1876] and n. 2). The …
- … Cross and self fertilisation (see letter to Francis Darwin, 16 September [1876] ). George …
- … letter to Andrew Clark, [late June 1876] ). Frances Darwin had been in Wales with his in-laws, the Ruck family, following the death of his wife Amy. After their marriage in July 1874, Frances and Amy had moved into Down Lodge ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1874). Francis …
To J. D. Hooker 18 October [1873]
Summary
Hopes to get another species of Desmodium from Mr Rollisson.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.3a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9100 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 March 1879
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 125–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11938 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … this would be possible ( letter from Horace Darwin to Francis Maitland Balfour, 14 March …
- … letter to encourage Francis Darwin to reconsider his decision not to accept nomination as one of the examiners in the natural sciences tripos at the University of Cambridge. Horace Darwin also wanted Francis …
From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10282 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … was in Cambridge ( letter from Francis Darwin, [11 or 12 November 1880] ). Hooker was …
- … letter to James Paget, 14 November 1880 and n. 6. Hooker had mentioned the possibility of appointing a vegetable pathologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 22 November 1880 ). Francis Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 31 October 1873
Summary
On Nepenthes.
Asks JDH, if he publishes, to mention CD’s work on digestive powers of Drosera so that charges of plagiarism will not be made against CD later when he publishes.
Describes at length his observations on the movements of Desmodium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 300–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9118 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 December 1875]
Summary
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 401–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10295 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … admitted to the society (see letter from Francis Darwin, [after 2 December 1875] and n. …
- … letter to ? , [after 11 December 1875] ); Lankester was proposed at the next meeting of the society on 16 December, but the election did not take place until the meeting of 3 February 1876, when Lankester was duly elected ( Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (1875–6): iii). Francis Darwin , …
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1873
Summary
Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.
Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 169–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9089 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 November 1873]
Summary
Sends leaves and names by post.
Is writing everywhere for Drosophyllum.
Is deeply interested in Desmodium.
Had no intention of publishing on Nepenthes, the experiments were solely for CD’s "eating". Will continue with egg and raw meat experiments. Asks for advice on how to prove fluid is secreted by the glands.
Searles Wood’s letter is confused and would deny atavism if his principles were accepted.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 178–80, DAR 209.12: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9123 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1880
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 148–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12887 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 October [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3301 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 October [1873]
Summary
Extremely glad to hear of the aggregation in Nepenthes glands. Advises on experimenting with cubes of albumen – gives sizes, also suggests cubes of roast meat. Thanks for analyses of secretion of Nepenthes.
Asks for cutting of Acacia farnesiana.
Longs to examine a species of Desmodium with three leaflets. Has asked Frank [Darwin] to look for species of Desmodium with tendrils.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 284–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9114 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 24, letter from Francis Darwin, [28 May 1876] ). In the published …
- … Francis’s paper to the society and it was read on 1 March 1877; an abstract of it was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London ( F. Darwin 1877a ). The Council of the Royal Society later decided not to print the full paper (see letter …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 December [1873] ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 18 January 1877 . Much of the material from CD’s earlier papers, ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ , ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , and ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’ , was reworked in Forms of flowers , which was published on 9 July 1877 ( Freeman 1977 ). Francis Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker [30 and 31 December 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 and 31 Dec 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 83a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3576 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 October 1881
Summary
Visiting his son Horace.
Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.
Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?
Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 538–41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13420 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Wiesner’s criticisms, see the letter to Francis Darwin, 22 [October 1881] . Asa Gray left …
- … letter from George King, 13 September 1881 and n. 1. Nathaniel Wallich had illustrated and described Dischidia rafflesiana (a synonym of D. major ) in Plantae Asiaticae rariores ( Wallich 1830–2 , 2: 35–6 and plate 142). Francis Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 24 June [1868]
Summary
Thanks for name of grass.
Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.
Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.
Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 74–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6259 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859]
Summary
CD hopes Woodward was not the Athenæum reviewer. "The manner in which he drags in immortality, & sets the Priests at me … is base".
JDH has made CD feel he can "face a score of savage reviewers".
H. C. Watson has written to him in tremendous praise of the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2542 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 June 1847]
Summary
Encloses quasi-hybrid Laburnum.
Suggests a new view of symmetry of flowers.
Will discuss coal and species sketch at Oxford [BAAS meeting (1847)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 June 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1094 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
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