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To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1877]
Summary
Neptunia seeds germinated by applying great heat. CD wants advice of Kew gardener, R. I. Lynch, on how to proceed.
Printed public oration for CD’s Cambridge doctorate enclosed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 463 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11253 |
To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [26 Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 455–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11210 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1877]
Summary
CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.
CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.
Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 461–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11229 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 May [1877]
Summary
CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 May [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 440–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10972 |
