To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1861]
Summary
Affectionate regards to Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3111 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1861]
Summary
CD infers [incorrectly] from Huxley’s report that Henslow is dead.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3116 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [November 1861]
Summary
Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3308 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 [November 1861]
Summary
Rostellum of Masdevallia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 [Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3309 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 [November 1861]
Summary
JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 [Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3325 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 October [1861]
Summary
Orchid anatomy: movement in Mormodes column.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3281 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [April 1861]
Summary
CD misunderstood Huxley: Henslow is not dead.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3119 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1861]
Summary
Transport of an orchid to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3326 |
To J. D. Hooker [30 and 31 December 1861]
Summary
Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.
| 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 27 [December 1861]
Summary
Seeks information on heating hothouses night and day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3351 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Offers to go to Henslow despite his own poor health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3125 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1861]
Summary
Orchid anatomy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3304 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1861]
Summary
Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3318 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 December 1861]
Summary
Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 136, 129c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3341 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1861]
Summary
Henslow is dying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [Mar 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3101 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 October [1861]
Summary
Query on orchid homology.
Critical of F. A. Bauer on orchids [Illustrations of orchidaceous plants (1830–8)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 115, DAR 115: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3276 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 November [1861]
Summary
JDH’s Fernando Po case.
Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3310 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1861]
Summary
Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3085 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 July 1861]
Summary
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 July 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3200 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1861]
Summary
After much crossing, has worked out meaning of dimorphism in Primula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3248 |
