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From J. D. Hooker   26 August 1864

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Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.

Will CD sit for Woolner?

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Aug 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 234–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4600

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 26 November [1868] ( Calendar no.  6476)). The references are to the novels Beppo the conscript ( T.  A.  Trollope 1864 ) and Quits ( Tautphoeus 1857 ). …

From J. D. Hooker   5 September 1864

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R. I. Murchison’s address [see 4595] smashes Ramsay’s glacial theory.

JDH defends his view that CD should not answer Kölliker.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Sept 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 238–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4608

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  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [1 September 1864] and n.  8. Tautphoeus 1857 . See letter …

From J. D. Hooker   20 April 1864

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Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 208–13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4469

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 29 March 1864  and n.  4). On the public value and the instructional value of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the nineteenth century, see R.  Desmond 1995 , pp.  228–38. A museum of economic botany at Kew opened to the public in 1848; a new museum building opened in 1857 ( …

To J. D. Hooker   2 June [1864]

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Requests climbing plants.

Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  2 June [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 237
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4517

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  • … vol.  6, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 14 [November 1857] ); at that time, CD was interested …
  • Hooker in February (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] ). CD had obtained seeds of A.  cirrhosa from Kew in 1857 ( …

To J. D. Hooker   [1 September 1864]

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CD continues to have trouble reconciling the Veitch’s names for Bignonia plants and Kew names.

Lyell and Falconer called on CD in London.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [1 Sept 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 248
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4605

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 30 August 1864 . In 1864, 1 September was a Thursday. Quits was the title of a novel ( Tautphoeus 1857 ). …

To J. D. Hooker   [27 January 1864]

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CD continues very ill.

His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.

Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [27 Jan 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 218
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4398

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, [21 July 1863] ). CD was also aware that Asa Gray thought tendrils of the Cucurbitaceae, which include gourds, were modified branches ( Gray 1857 , …
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