To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 January 1877
Summary
CD thinks A. Günther’s tortoises are relics of closely allied forms, once widely distributed. Expressed this view to AG a few months ago. Cannot explain their restriction to volcanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 432–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10819 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1877]
Summary
CD counters Thiselton-Dyer’s objection to protoplasmic filaments of Dipsacus protruding beyond cell-wall, as Frank’s paper claims, by citing white "blood cells passing through vessels".
Has received Moseley’s collection of photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Mar [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 435–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10874 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 March [1877]
Summary
CD apologises for his burdensome request of Oliver.
Criticises JDH’s notice on Forsythia, which JDH said was dioecious. Forsythia sent to CD from Kew was heterostylous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Mar [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 437–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10906 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 April [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Apr [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 439 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10935 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 May [1877]
Summary
CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 May [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 440–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10972 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 May 1877
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 May 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 442 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10978 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 June [1877]
Summary
CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 443–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11002 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 457–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11195 |
To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1877]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [26 Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 455–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11210 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 459–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11226 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1877]
Summary
CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.
CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.
Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 461–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11229 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1877]
Summary
Neptunia seeds germinated by applying great heat. CD wants advice of Kew gardener, R. I. Lynch, on how to proceed.
Printed public oration for CD’s Cambridge doctorate enclosed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 463 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11253 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1877]
Summary
Suggests revisions in JDH’s 1877 Presidential Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1877): 427–46].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 465 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11257 |
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