From J. D. Hooker 13 December 1876
Summary
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 71–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10715 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from J. D. Hooker, 8 December 1876 and n. 4, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 December 1876 …
- … Hooker sent dried flowers of Forsythia suspensa (weeping forsythia) collected from different locations; see Forms of flowers , p. 117. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 …
- … Hooker too used to send him beautiful ones [bananas] from Kew— They were christened “Kew gooseberries” being I suppose I think considered a return for the gooseberry feast for which Hooker was supposed to come every year to Down’ (DAR 140.3). On the expensiveness and rarity of bananas in this period, see Endersby 2007 , pp. 170–1. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 …
To J. D. Hooker 17 September [1876]
Summary
CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 419–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10606 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 September 1876]
Summary
JDH again expresses his condolences.
The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.
Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?
Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Sept 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 62–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10605 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Hooker, 17 September [1876] . The Sunday following 17 September 1876 was 24 September. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 11 …
- … J. D. Hooker, 17 September [1876] . Francis Darwin had been living at Down Lodge with his wife, Amy , since their marriage in 1874 ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1874). Amy died at their home on 11 September 1876 ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 …
From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876
Summary
JDH’s condolences at Amy Darwin’s death.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10597 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1876]
Summary
CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 417–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10592 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1876
Summary
Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10446 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 December 1876
Summary
Plants received from JDH.
Requests he verify an identification by Fritz Müller.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 427–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10710 |
To George Bentham 12 December 1876
Summary
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 720) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10714 |
From George Henslow 24 October 1876
Summary
Thanks for CD’s book [Cross and self-fertilisation] and information on protandry and protogyny.
Health better, but paralysis lingers.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10652 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 June 1876
Summary
Has finished Geographical distribution; sends his comments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 25 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10550 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 April [1876]
Summary
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 404–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10445 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
