To J. D. Hooker 20 January 1882
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 545 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13628 |
From A. B. Mitford 17 January 1882
Summary
The Secretary to the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works thanks CD for providing the funds for a new edition of Steudel’s Nomenclator [Index Kewensis].
Author: | Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale; Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13620 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 January 1882
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 176–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13625 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1880]
Summary
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 500–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12870 |
Palmer, Elizabeth (1824/5–1901)
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- … Hooker attended from 1875. From at least 1888 until 1900, in Brighton, Sussex; for part of that time ran a home for Anglo-Indian children at 50a Westbourne Villas. Brighton and Hove blue book 1888–1900 Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1645/40/41), 1861 (RG9/368/261/39) letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 January 1875 Post Office directory of the six home counties 1866, 1882. …
To J. D. Hooker 20 December 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 507–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12927 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 5 December 1880 . Francis Darwin was being proposed for fellowship of the Royal Society of London ; Hooker had agreed to propose him, but, in the event, Francis was proposed by Michael Foster in January 1881 and elected in June 1882 (Royal Society archives, GB 117 EC/1882/09). William Turner Thiselton-Dyer also signed the certificate for Francis. CD had prepared a memorial to obtain a government pension for Alfred Russel Wallace (see letter …
To S. P. Woodward 6 March [1860]
Summary
Will be glad to have SPW’s criticisms of Origin.
Discusses his use of terms, "typical" and "specialisation".
Emphasises large body of facts explained by his theory of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2724 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1882
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13613 |
From Julius Sachs 24 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Admires natural selection.
Climbing plants has attracted attention in Germany, but most botanists are interested in cell development and similar questions.
Author: | Julius Sachs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7512 |
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