From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
From Richard Spruce to J. D. Hooker 29 July 1864
Summary
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4577 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray. ‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles …
To J. D. Hooker [24 July 1864?]
Summary
Notes and queries on climbing plants for JDH [? given to him by CD at their meeting of 24 July 1864].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [24 July 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 242b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4573 |
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- … Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Beer, Joseph Georg. 1863. Beiträge zur Morphologie und Biologie der Familie der Orchideen. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. ‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Spruce, Richard | (1) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Hooker, J. D. | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Spruce, Richard | (1) |
