From J. D. Hooker 17 August 1874
Summary
Describes his work on Nepenthes.
Cephalotus is a beast.
His address is a history of Dionaea, Sarracenia, and Drosera.
Thiselton-Dyer has helped enormously except with the observations; but his health is so poor that JDH thinks he is "evidently cut out for a Literate not a working botanist".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 214–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9602 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 4 September 1874]
Summary
Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 4 Sept 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 222–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9615 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1874
Summary
Stupefied by CD’s trouble and kindness. All he wanted for Belfast meeting was assurance that mention of published work on Drosera, etc., in Nature, etc., would not interfere with CD’s book.
Would like his Nepenthes results to go to CD or to Royal Society, but prefers CD take them.
Cephalotus very puzzling.
Peas and cabbage grow twice as fast after two days’ immersion in Nepenthes as when placed in distilled water, but four days’ immersion seems to kill them.
Has a splendid Australian Drosera twice as big as D. rotundifolia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 210–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9558 |
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- … 1874 , and n. 3, below). CD had not published any of his research on insectivorous plants in Nature , but an article on electrical phenomena in Dionaea by John Scott Burdon Sanderson had recently been published in the journal ( Burdon Sanderson 1874a ). CD had advised on Burdon Sanderson’s experiments to investigate the electric currents in Dionaea muscipula (Venus fly trap; see Correspondence vol 21, letters to J. …
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