From J. D. Hooker [after 26 March 1862?]
Summary
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 26 Mar 1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3486 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3447 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1860] ). Emma Darwin took Horace to Headland on 11 February 1862, and recorded in her diary the commencement of an acid treatment on 14 February (DAR 242). Camilla Ludwig was governess to the Darwin children. CD refers to the lunch party at John Lubbock’s on 15 February 1862 to which, in addition to Joseph Dalton Hooker , George and Ellen Busk had been invited (see letter from John Lubbock, 13 February 1862 ). The references are to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , …
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