To William Jackson Hooker [23 August 1845]
Summary
Will be pleased to provide a testimonial for J. D. Hooker, who is seeking the Chair in Botany at Edinburgh, but fears he himself is so little known that it could only be of the smallest service. Has asked Lyell to write to J. F. W. Herschel giving an opinion of J. D. Hooker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Aug 1845] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence: English letters 1845, 23: 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-904 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1845]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.
"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."
Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-927 |
To J. D. Hooker [27 June 1845]
Summary
Busy correcting proofs. Thanks for JDH’s remarks; asks him to send any other corrections soon; goes to press with second part of Journal of researches in less than a week.
Urges collections of all kinds on any isolated islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 June 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-880 |
| letter | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, W. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, W. J. | (1) |
