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To J. D. Hooker   15 [October 1861]

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Orchid anatomy. Wind as agent of self-fertilisation in orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 [Oct 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 119
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3286

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  • … illustrations for Orchids (see letter to W.  E. Darwin, 12 October [1861] ). Reichenbach  …

To J. D. Hooker   30 May [1861]

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Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  30 May [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3168

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  • … career. See letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [25 May 1861] . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24–5  …

To J. D. Hooker   4 February [1861]

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Changes in admission to Athenaeum.

Slowly working at his volume on Variation.

Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 Feb [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115.2: 87
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3057

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  • … 534–7. See letters to Asa Gray , 23 [January 1861] , and to W.  E.  Darwin, [24 January  …

To J. D. Hooker   19 June [1861]

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CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.

William Darwin’s partnership in bank.

Work: variation and orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  19 June [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 103
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3190

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  • … for William Erasmus Darwin in the Southampton and Hampshire Bank. See letters to W.  E.   …
  • Darwin, [25 May 1861] and 6 [June 1861] . William Darwin had developed an interest in botany while he was being tutored before entering Cambridge University (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter to W.  E. …

To J. D. Hooker   8 [February 1861]

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Henrietta’s continuing poor health. JDH’s suggestion to rub her with cod-liver oil.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 [Feb 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115.2: 86
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3060

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  • Darwins’ family physician. Williams had been treating Henrietta Emma Darwin throughout her illness of the past year. Etty, whose condition had been improving, had suffered a severe vomiting attack late in January ( letter to W.  E.   …

To J. D. Hooker   14 May [1861]

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Henslow’s long suffering.

Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 May [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3149

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  • Darwin went to London on 8 May 1861 and returned to Down on 17 May ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letter to W.  E.   …
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