To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1864]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4561 |
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
Matches: 1 hit
To H. H. Higgins 18 August [1880]
Summary
Thanks HHH for essay.
Describes disposition of cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Hugh Higgins |
| Date: | 18 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service (HG12/8/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12691 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from Higgins on Nassa , a genus of sea snails, has not been found. The essay on Nassa is probably Marrat 1880 ; a copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. It was published in the Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool , of which Higgins was vice-president. CD had given duplicates of his Cirripedia type-specimens to George Brettingham Sowerby Jr ; these were later transferred to John Ellor Taylor ’ …
To J. D. Hooker 27 October [1861]
Summary
Acropera anatomy puzzling. Malaxis anatomy deciphered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3301 |
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- … Taylor. Kurr, Johann Gottlob von. 1833. Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen: auf eigene Beobachtungen und Versuche gegründet. Stuttgart: Henneschen Buchhandlung. Lindley, John. 1853. The vegetable kingdom; or, the structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. 3d edition with corrections and additional genera. London: Bradbury & Evans. ML : More letters …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Higgins, H. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Higgins, H. H. | (1) |
