From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1862
Summary
JDH admits he wrote Gardeners’ Chronicle and Natural History Review articles on orchids [Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863, 910; Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6].
JDH’s objections to CD’s idea of how Greenland was repopulated. Temperate Greenland has as Arctic a flora as Arctic Greenland – a fact of astounding force. Why should certain Scandinavian species be absent? Migration by sea-currents can no more account for the present distribution in Greenland than can special creation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 68–9, 73–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3797 |
From Berthold Carl Seemann 24 April 1862
Summary
Encloses a passage from his book, The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. "Herald" [1852–7].
Discusses possibility of publishing work on flora of Hawaiian Islands.
| Author: | Berthold Carl Seemann |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 130, DAR 50: E28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3518 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 September 1862
Summary
Asks his opinion of A. C. Ramsay’s glacial lake theory. Encloses Julius Haast’s communication on glacial phenomena.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 58, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s Correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 273) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3731 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 May 1862]
Summary
Sends two flowers of Vanilla and two Melastomataceae.
Has worked on Cameroon list ["Mountain flowering plants and ferns of the Cameroons", in Burton, Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains (1863) 2: 270–7]
and Genera plantarum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3574 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, [7 April 1862] and n. 2); CD’ s notes on the specimens sent by Hooker are in DAR 70: 94–5. Syon House, near Isleworth, Middlesex, was the property of Algernon Percy , fourth duke of Northumberland, who further developed its notable gardens ( Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 18 February 1865, …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [August 1862]
Summary
Lythrum. Wants to examine fresh flowers of Lythraceae. Lythrum salicaria has interested him very much.
Microscopes.
Asks whether JDH can think of plants that have different coloured anthers or pollen in same flowers (as in Melastoma) or on same and in different plants as in Lythrum. Would be a safe guide to dimorphism.
Observation of action of pollen in Linum grandiflorum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 [Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3696 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1865 , pp. 102–4. In October 1861, CD had begun to investigate the occurrence of what he considered might be a novel form of dimorphism in the Melastomataceae, the structure and colour of the stamens facing the petals differing from that of the stamens facing the sepals in the same flower (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Seemann, B. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Seemann, B. C. | (1) |
