To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1861]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 17 March 1862 and letter to J. D. Hooker, [18 May 1862] ). …
- … J. D. Hooker, 28 September [1861] and 18 October [1861] ), which Hooker eventually supplied in the spring of 1862 ( …
- … J. D. Hooker, 24–5 May [1861] . CD’s ‘recollections’ of Henslow, consisting chiefly of his memory of Henslow during his student days at Cambridge, were published in the Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow edited by Henslow’s brother-in-law Leonard Jenyns (Jenyns ed. 1862). …
To J. D. Hooker [6 July 1861]
Summary
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 July 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3200 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1861]
Summary
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3352 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 18 [December 1861], and to John Lindley , 24 December [1861]. Orchids was published by John Murray in May 1862. …
- … 1862 ( Oliver 1862a ). See also letter to Daniel Oliver, 30 November [1861] and n. 7. CD probably refers to the geologist and naturalist Samuel Pickworth Woodward . See letter to Daniel Oliver, 30 November [1861] . See letter from W. H. Gower, 23 November 1861 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 7 November [1861]
Summary
JDH’s Fernando Po case.
Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3310 |
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 4 January 1861
Summary
Comments on the travels of JDH.
Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.
Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1861 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041A |
Matches: 1 hit
To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1861]
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1861]
Summary
Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.
Orchids.
Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3268 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 24 September [1861] ; see also letter to John Murray, 21 September [1861] , and letter from John Murray, 23 September 1861 . Hooker and George Bentham were preparing the first part of the first volume of Genera plantarum , which was intended to be a systematic compilation of all known plant genera (Bentham and Hooker 1862 – …
To J. D. Hooker 17 November [1861]
Summary
JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.
Faunal distribution and the glacial period.
Orchid homologies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3322 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 October [1861]
Summary
JDH’s work on Gnetum: a living fossil.
Orchid anatomy.
Encloses lists of orchids and other specimens he would be interested in seeing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 121, 126a, 124a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3296 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1861]
Summary
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3329 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 10 November [1861] and 14 November [1861] . Hooker apparently attended the meeting of the Linnean Society of London on 21 November 1861 at which CD read his paper ‘On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula , and on their remarkable sexual relations’, Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
