To J. D. Hooker 18 September [1881]
Summary
Comte [de Paris] will have plants next summer.
Arruda Furtado will send his mountain plants from Azores.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 Sept [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 536–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13342 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 October 1881
Summary
Visiting his son Horace.
Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.
Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?
Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 538–41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13420 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1881 ). For a discussion of some of Wiesner’s criticisms, see the letter to Francis Darwin, …
- … 1881 and n. 1. Nathaniel Wallich had illustrated and described Dischidia rafflesiana (a synonym of D. major ) in Plantae Asiaticae rariores ( Wallich 1830–2 , 2: 35–6 and plate 142). Francis Darwin added a note on Dischidia rafflesiana to Insectivorous plants 2d ed. , pp. 366–7 n. Francis …
To J. D. Hooker 20 December 1880
Summary
On Wallace’s pension and Frank’s F.R.S.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 507–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12927 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December 1880
Summary
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 504–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12890 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December 1880
Summary
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 502–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12880 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 October 1881
Summary
Profuse thanks for plants.
Specifies which euphorbs he wants. Euphorbs’ alternate rows of ammonium carbonate reactive/non-reactive cells are worth more study.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 542–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13442 |
Matches: 1 hit
To J. D. Hooker 15 June 1881
Summary
CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 513–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13207 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 June [1881]
Summary
Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.
Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 June [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 516–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13211 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1881. ] Report of the 51st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at York , Transactions of the sections, pp. 727–38. McLennan, John Ferguson. 1896. Studies in ancient history. The second series: comprising an inquiry into the origin of exogamy. Edited by Eleanora Anne McLennan and Arthur Platt. London and New York: Macmillan. Movement in plants : The power of movement in plants. By Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis …
