To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1857]1
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 4th
My dear Hooker
I send off this day D. C.2 & the 2 pamphlets, for which very many thanks. I was particularly glad to have seen Thuret.—3 I enclose the results of D. C. which, of course, I do not wish returned; but I shd. be very glad of your opinion on two points therein specified, whenever you have a little leisure, which probably will not be soon.—4 I have to beg one other favour; viz name of any intelligent Curator (& permission to use your or Sir William’s name as introduction) of any Botanic Garden in hot or hottish & dryish country, as Sydney or Cape of G. Hope, that I may enquire about temperate plants withstanding dryish heat, for my Glacial Chapter.5 I know you once gave me reference to some remark of your own on tropical or temperate plants ascending or descending more on dry or damp mountains; but thinking it would never concern me, I did not keep it.
I shd. be very glad to hear sometime how Henslow & all the Family are after their dreadful loss.6 Pray give my very kind remembrances & sympathy to Mrs Hooker;7 but perhaps she is yet at Hitcham, & indeed I do not know whether you are at Kew.—
My dear Hooker | Yours most truly | C. Darwin
The Parcel shall be paid to London.—
I hope you expressed my most sincere sympathy to poor dear Henslow.
Thank you very much for note just received telling me all I wanted to know about the Henslows—8 Thanks.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de and Candolle, Alphonse de. 1824–73. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta. 19 vols. Paris: Treuttel & Würtz [and others].
Natural selection: Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. Stauffer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1975.
Thuret, Gustave Adolphe. 1854–5. Recherches sur la fecondation des Fucacées, suivies d’observations sur les anthéridies des Algues. Annales des sciences naturelles (botanique) 4th ser. 2: 197–214; 3: 5–28.
Summary
Inquiries on effect of dry heat on temperate plants for glacial chapter.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2180
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 114: 216
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2180,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2180.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6