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From J. D. Hooker   18 June 1877

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JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 June 1877
Classmark:  DAR 104: 90–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11006

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  • … On Hooker’s Himalayan expedition, see J. D. Hooker 1854 . On his other contributions to …

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   3 January [1877]

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Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  3 Jan [1877]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 6 January 1877, p. 19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10769

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  • 1854–8 , 7: 370). CD had written to several people in New Zealand during the spring of 1858 to inquire about the fertilisation of clover by bees (see Correspondence vol. 7; see also ibid. , letters to J. D. Hooker, …
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