From J. D. Hooker [September 1873]
Summary
Abstracts literature on sensitive plants (Linnaeus, L. P. Cailletet, W. R. McNab).
The Mimosa at Down is M. pudica.
Dichogamy in Eucalyptus difficult to decide, but Thiselton-Dyer thinks there is some protandry.
[Letter is in W. T. Thiselton-Dyer’s hand.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.6: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9038 |
DCP-LETT-3369
Summary
Himalayan pine has turned up in Macedonia.
JDH has got into a quarrel with H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 161, DAR 101: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3369 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 July [1874]
Summary
JDH has told Murray that the Quarterly Review article attacking George [Darwin] and CD [137 (1874): 40–77] was "as base as it was baseless".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9552 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1873
Summary
George Henslow is worse. All plans to go abroad have been given up. James Paget’s diagnoses enclosed.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 151–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8857 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 August 1873
Summary
He and Strachey will arrive on Saturday.
Is aghast at thought of being questioned on injury to plants by watering. Fears he will be considered an ignorant Director of Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 160–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9018 |
From J. D. Hooker [22 August 1873]
Summary
Will arrive at Orpington by usual train.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9021 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 November 1873
Summary
Has time only to thank CD for the invaluable hints.
Encloses Lathyrus nissolia seeds.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9132 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 July 1874
Summary
The appetite of Nepenthes for hard-boiled egg is prodigious.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 204–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9537 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 April 1875
Summary
Likes draft of petition on vivisection. Asks whether phrase "and the lower animals" might not be added at end.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9917 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 September 1872
Summary
Kew’s Drosera capensis is at CD’s service.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8505 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 or 20 January 1873]
Summary
The Drosophyllum goes to Orpington by train this evening.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 20] Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 138–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8734 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 October 1871
Summary
JDH’s servant carries his letter to Henry Holland about problems with Ayrton. Suggests servant take CD’s letter to Holland to town and post them at same time. Holland is said to be very intimate friend of Gladstone.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 85–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8021 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1868
Summary
Anxious to hear how the Lubbocks take the disastrous termination to their hopes. [Sir John Lubbock was defeated in the Parliamentary election on 25 Nov 1868.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6477 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 September 1869
Summary
Time of his arrival.
Will bring bark story with him.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6908 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1867
Summary
Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.
Woolner comes on Sunday morning.
| 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 6 August 1868
Summary
Coming on Saturday.
Baby and wife pretty well.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6307 |
From J. D. Hooker [17 August 1866]
Summary
Hopes to arrive with MS of "Insular floras" on Saturday.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Aug 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5191 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 March 1867
Summary
Baby’s situation hopeless.
E. Perceval Wright on way to Seychelles for collecting.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5477 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 September 1863]
Summary
Grieves over the death of his second daughter [Maria Elizabeth].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4309 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 April 1862]
Summary
Is it convenient for him and Willy to come to Down from Thursday to Sunday?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Apr 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3506 |
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