From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1863]
Summary
Encourages CD to continue observations on tendrils.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 152–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4225 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 July 1863]
Summary
Sends "tendrilliferous" plants.
Plans visit to Down.
Naudin’s paper on tendrils [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 9 (1863): 180–203].
T. V. Wollaston snubs Bates’s work.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [31 July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 154–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4226 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1863]
Summary
Describes experiments on rotation of tendrils and shoots.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4227 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1863]
Summary
Requests tendril-bearing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 200 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4241 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1863]
Summary
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4250 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [July 1863]
Summary
Asa Gray writes as if Civil War were a holy war.
J. E. Renan on Jesus [Vie de Jésus (1863)].
Literature on tendrils of Cucurbita is contradictory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4254 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
