To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1856]
Summary
On the variety of species definitions prevalent among naturalists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2022 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1856]
Summary
CD is convinced of relation between separation of sexes and tree-habit.
Recent hard blows against crossing theory.
CD long tormented by land molluscs on oceanic islands; found transport possible experimentally.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2018 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]
Summary
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Oct [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 423–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10644 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 January 1862]
Summary
Sends plant specimens. William Borrer will be glad to send seeds.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3373 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 March 1867
Summary
More on Naudin’s hybrid; the wonder lessened slightly.
JDH’s view that insular plants [distantly] related to those of continents are common came to him only after the lecture was in print; has not yet thought it out fully.
Moroccan flora may throw some light on Madeira flora.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 151–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 143: 643) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5456 |
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- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 March 1867 and n. 3. Hooker refers to Charles Victor Naudin , George Bentham , and the Linnean Society . CD had asked Hooker to clarify whether the intermediate fruit that Naudin had sent was from the mother plant ( Chamaerops humilis ) or the hybrid plant produced by the cross ( …
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