To J. D. Hooker 17 November [1861]
Summary
JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.
Faunal distribution and the glacial period.
Orchid homologies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3322 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 October [1861]
Summary
JDH’s work on Gnetum: a living fossil.
Orchid anatomy.
Encloses lists of orchids and other specimens he would be interested in seeing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 121, 126a, 124a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3296 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1861]
Summary
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3329 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 10 November [1861] and 14 November [1861] . Hooker apparently attended the meeting of the Linnean Society of London on 21 November 1861 at which CD read his paper ‘On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula , and on their remarkable sexual relations’, Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 6 (1862): …
From T. F. Jamieson 24 October 1861
Summary
Discusses his observations at Glen Roy. Mentions glaciers seen by Hooker in the Himalayas. Discusses problems of glacier–lake theory.
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1861 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.112/2828-9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3297 |
To Asa Gray 5 June [1861]
Summary
AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].
Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.
Insect fertilisation of orchids.
Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 5 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3176 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
