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
Summary
CD thanks JDH for assistance with "bloom" study.
| 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 [17 June 1847]
Summary
CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 June 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1098 |
To J. D. Hooker [19 June 1847]
Summary
JDH’s books have arrived.
Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [19 June 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1099 |
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 [19 July 1847]
Summary
Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.
Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [19 July 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1101 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 July [1847]
Summary
Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 July [1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1104 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 August 1847]
Summary
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [4 Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1105 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 August 1847]
Summary
Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1106 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 August 1847]
Summary
Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [18 Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1110 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 September 1847]
Summary
David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.
Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 Sept 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1118 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1877]
Summary
Welcomes JDH home from American expedition.
| 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]
Summary
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
| 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 [5 October 1847]
Summary
Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.
Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1123 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 or 13 October 1847]
Summary
Difficulty of scheduling visit before JDH departs on Himalayan expedition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 or 13] Oct 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1127 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1847]
Summary
On scheduling farewell meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [21 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1129 |
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