From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1873
Summary
George Henslow is worse. All plans to go abroad have been given up. James Paget’s diagnoses enclosed.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 151–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8857 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 October 1881]
Summary
Pleasure in reading Earthworms.
Buying land to build a cottage.
Finishing palms for Genera plantarum after three years’ work.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 164–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13424 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bowman , whose house, Joldwynds, was designed by Philip Speakman Webb and completed in 1875 ( ODNB s.v. Webb, Philip Speakman). Hooker’s son-in-law, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer , and his daughter Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer had gone on a six-week holiday to the continent on 7 September 1881 (see letter …
From J. D. Hooker 25 August 1854
Summary
JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.
Insects found in coal.
Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.
JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1854 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 384 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1581 |
