To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1855]
Summary
Has named 35 species of grasses.
Seed-salting continues.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 July [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1711 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [July 1855]
Summary
CD experiments: sowing seeds in fields; "breaking" seeds’ constitution with coloured light; plant hybridisation. Compiling works on hybridism.
Respect for W. B. Carpenter.
Note on "nectar secreting" to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 258–9].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [July 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1717 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [July 1855]
Summary
Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.
JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [July 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1719 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 July [1855]
Summary
Parcels sent to Down by coach may get lost.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 July [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1722 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [July 1855]
Summary
Praise for JDH’s Flora Indica [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson (1855)] from CD and C. J. F. Bunbury.
CD and J. S. Henslow dining in London. JDH invited.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [July 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 143a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1731 |
