From J. D. Hooker 24 March 1874
Summary
"Half an answer" to CD’s query on visit of Sphinx to Hedychium gardnerianum.
Business affairs and family ill health keep him busy.
G. J. Allman will succeed Bentham as President of Linnean Society. Busk has refused.
Huxley is well.
JDH has indoctrinated Sir Stafford Northcote with his merits.
Lyell frail.
Old J. E. Gray goes on publishing.
"Is not [Thomas] Belt splendid!"
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 195–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9371 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for information about Hedychium. Hopes wings of Sphinx will be found covered with pollen for that will be a fine bit of prophecy from the structure of a flower to special and new means of fertilisation.
Has been at Descent so hard he has done nothing, not even H. Spencer’s answer.
Has not yet read Croll ["Ocean currents", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 47 (1874): 94–122, 168–90].
Has heard nothing about Carter and Eozoon. Eozoon, he infers, is done for.
Has read Belt [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: best of all natural history travel books.
Has written to Fritz Müller about leaf-carrying ants.
Hopes to resume work on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Mar [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 317–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9372 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [March 1874]
Summary
Etty [Henrietta Litchfield] is helping with Coral reefs [2d ed.]; will JDH lend her his copy?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Mar 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9373 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 [April 1874]
Summary
C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 [Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9395 |
To J. D. Hooker [before 15 July 1874]
Summary
Suggests experiments to try [with Nepenthes]. Asks JDH to test whether cabbage seeds and peas exposed to the ferment germinate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [before 15 July 1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 38–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9523 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 July 1874
Summary
Has "given the slip" to Nepenthes, but is setting a plant up in an enclosure for special observation.
Has some splendid Sarracenia and will perform any miracle regarding them CD puts him up to.
Charmed with CD’s account of Pinguicula. Would like to try whether Lychnis has the same use of viscid fluid.
Has written for English Utricularia for CD.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 200–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9526 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July 1874
Summary
Thinks Frank and he have worked out Pinguicula well and they long to attack Utricularia. Tried several plants with sticky glandular hairs; some few absorb ammonia, but the greater number do not. If JDH sends plant or seed of Lychnis CD will examine it to see whether it catches many flies. Asa Gray has written him much about Sarracenia, with a specimen showing the splendid dodge by which ground insects are enticed up and then drowned. Describes how it may be investigated, to see whether it absorbs decayed matter from flies, or ammonia thus generated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 322–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9529 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 July 1874
Summary
Sends results of his observations on Nepenthes. Would be grateful for any hints for further observations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 202–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9530 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 July 1874
Summary
It would be interesting to prove that some plants feed on decayed animal matter whilst others like Drosera can digest fresh animal matter. Suggests the method for observing this.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 324–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9532 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 July 1874
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9537 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 July 1874
Summary
Asks what can be the meaning of appendages to tips of leaflets of enclosed Acacia or Mimosa.
Is at fibrin today.
Michael Foster suggests coagulation of protoplasm may be diseased, not digestive, symptom.
F. M. Balfour is at Kew today.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 206–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9548 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 July 1874
Summary
The Acacia must be Belt’s "Bulls’ horns".
The complexity of Utricularia has driven Frank and CD almost mad. Suspects it is necrophagous, i.e., it cannot digest, but absorbs decaying animal matter.
Foster is certainly in error. Every insect that Drosera catches causes aggregation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 326–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9550 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 July [1874]
Summary
JDH has told Murray that the Quarterly Review article attacking George [Darwin] and CD [137 (1874): 40–77] was "as base as it was baseless".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9552 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 July 1874
Summary
Two Nepenthes have devoured two pieces of fibrin [sketch shows size] in three days.
Has CD any objection to JDH’s giving an account of CD’s Drosera observations at Belfast [BAAS meeting] in a résumé of pitcher-plant results ["Address to the department of botany and zoology", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16]?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 208–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9553 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 July [1874]
Summary
"It is grand about Nepenthes."
JDH is welcome to notice in any way any of CD’s published or unpublished results with insectivorous plants. Gives an abstract of his observations on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 July [1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 32–37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9555 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1874
Summary
Stupefied by CD’s trouble and kindness. All he wanted for Belfast meeting was assurance that mention of published work on Drosera, etc., in Nature, etc., would not interfere with CD’s book.
Would like his Nepenthes results to go to CD or to Royal Society, but prefers CD take them.
Cephalotus very puzzling.
Peas and cabbage grow twice as fast after two days’ immersion in Nepenthes as when placed in distilled water, but four days’ immersion seems to kill them.
Has a splendid Australian Drosera twice as big as D. rotundifolia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 210–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9558 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1874]
Summary
JDH should do as he likes with insectivorous plant materials.
He has always thought telling JDH what he has been doing was as good as publishing.
Cephalotus seems as horrid a puzzle as Utricularia.
Nepenthes will turn out a great job if the pitchers of different species act differently. JDH’s paper on Nepenthes [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16] is too long for CD’s book. Well deserves a place in Philosophical Transactions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 328–31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9560 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 August 1874
Summary
Describes his work on Nepenthes.
Cephalotus is a beast.
His address is a history of Dionaea, Sarracenia, and Drosera.
Thiselton-Dyer has helped enormously except with the observations; but his health is so poor that JDH thinks he is "evidently cut out for a Literate not a working botanist".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 214–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9602 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 August 1874
Summary
It is splendid how Nepenthes is behaving. Drosera and Dionaea are insignificant by comparison.
Takes rather a malicious pleasure in JDH’s failure with Cephalotus as a match to his with Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 332–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9604 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 December 1874]
Summary
Has gone over Huxley’s letter, thinks it a model. All must now await developments. If Mivart does not apologise, JDH will write to him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Dec 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 241–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9780 |
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