From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1880
Summary
Quality of Frank’s work merits F.R.S., but quantity could defer speedy election. Will advise best strategy.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 146–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12873 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … D. Hooker, 28 November [1880] ; CD wanted to propose Francis Darwin for fellowship of the …
- … Francis Darwin had communicated one paper, ‘On the protrusion of protoplasmic filaments from the glandular hairs of the common teasel’ ( F. Darwin 1877 ), to the Royal Society. Daniel Oliver was elected as a member of the council of the Royal Society on 30 November 1880 ( …
From J. D. Hooker 12 June 1881
Summary
Has struggled for months with complexity of structure and distribution of palms for Genera plantarum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 150–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13201 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 February 1878
Summary
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11356 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Charles Darwin. Assisted by Francis Darwin. London: John Murray. 1880. Nobbe, Friedrich. …
- … Francis Darwin, [12 July 1878] ). CD remarked that in some genera it was indispensable that leaves be well illuminated during the day in order that they should assume a vertical position at night (see Movement in plants , pp. 318–19). On the new luminous paint, see the Chemical Gazette , 17 December 1880, …
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1873
Summary
Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.
Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 169–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9089 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1880
Summary
Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 148–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12887 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 October 1875
Summary
JDH shares CD’s annoyance with R. L. Tait.
Has identified awned carpels for CD.
Sports of Paritium.
Suggests extending Francis’ experiments with glycerine on twisted seeds, to Mimosa.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 38–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10197 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1873
Summary
Sends plant specimens.
He and Thiselton-Dyer, working on with Nepenthes, have independently found the spiral vessels going to the gland. CD’s view that the glands are secretory organs is suggestive. When Nepenthes is as much done as CD wants,
he will turn to Cephalotus and Sarracenia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 176–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9116 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 October 1878
Summary
Frank asked to summarise work with CD for use in JDH’s Royal Society address.
Work with A. Gray shows Colorado plants closer to Altai than to E. or W. America.
Work with J. Ball shows Moroccan plants very distinct from nearby Canaries.
JDH on Royal Commission to Paris Exhibition.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 115–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11714 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1878
Summary
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 118–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11718 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis Darwin was to provide Hooker with a list of his and CD’s published work ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 October [1878] ). Warren De la Rue and William Spottiswoode were researching phenomena associated with electrical discharge in a gas (see, for example, De la Rue and Müller 1878 and Spottiswoode and Moulton 1879). Hooker was collaborating with Asa Gray on a study of the flora of the Rocky Mountain region in relation to other parts of the world; the work was published in 1880 ( …
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