To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1867]
Summary
The date-palm seed case is important for Pangenesis.
Reports experiments on pollination of Ipomoea.
"Insular floras": A. Murray’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle is poor.
John Scott’s work on acclimatisation of plants.
The anomaly of the Azores flora on the migration theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 13a–e |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5445 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [March 1867]
Summary
Returns Charles Naudin’s letter with its case in support of CD’s view of impregnation.
Twits JDH for trying to wriggle out of error made in his lecture and admires his "candour in letting the rat out of the bag". [See 5449 and 5451.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5457A |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 20 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for two copies of Hildebrand’s monograph on plant sexuality (Hildebrand 1867a).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5450F |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] and n. 6). Daniel Oliver had been a botany editor of the Natural History Review , a journal that ceased publication in 1865, and had been responsible for the bibliography of phanerogamic botany that appeared regularly in the journal. He often referred CD to German and French publications on botanical topics (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 June 1864 ). …
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