To J. D. Hooker 20 July [1874]
Summary
"It is grand about Nepenthes."
JDH is welcome to notice in any way any of CD’s published or unpublished results with insectivorous plants. Gives an abstract of his observations on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 July [1874] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 32–37) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9555 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … acids. See letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 30 March [1874] ). See letter from Joseph …
- … 1874 and n. 2). In the summer of 1873, CD had described his work on Drosera (sundew) to John Scott Burdon Sanderson , who proposed testing for electrical changes in the leaves. CD suggested that Dionaea would be more suitable as an experimental subject (see Correspondence vol 21, letter from J. …
To J. D. Hooker 25 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for information about Hedychium. Hopes wings of Sphinx will be found covered with pollen for that will be a fine bit of prophecy from the structure of a flower to special and new means of fertilisation.
Has been at Descent so hard he has done nothing, not even H. Spencer’s answer.
Has not yet read Croll ["Ocean currents", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 47 (1874): 94–122, 168–90].
Has heard nothing about Carter and Eozoon. Eozoon, he infers, is done for.
Has read Belt [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: best of all natural history travel books.
Has written to Fritz Müller about leaf-carrying ants.
Hopes to resume work on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 317–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9372 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1874]
Summary
Thanks JDH for his "quite admirable" address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874) pt 2: 102–16]. Suggests revisions.
CD thinks he is "now on right track about Utricularia" after wasting several weeks "in fruitless trials and observations".
Mrs Barber’s paper is very curious and ought to be published.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1874] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/6/3 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9613 |
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