From J. D. Hooker [17 February 1865]
Summary
Why botanists will not subscribe to Falconer’s bust with enthusiasm.
Scott has been offered curatorship at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 10–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4773 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Hooker visited Down House between 4 and 6 March 1865. CD had asked Hooker what would be an appropriate contribution to the fund being raised for a marble bust of Hugh Falconer (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [February 1865] ). For two additional memorials made to Falconer, see the letter from George Busk, 20 February 1865 , n.4. Although Falconer had been superintendent of the botanic garden in Saharanpur, north-west India, from 1832 to 1842, and superintendent of the botanic garden in Calcutta and professor of botany at the Calcutta Medical College from 1848 …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [or 28 September 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 or 28] Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4901 |
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- … Emma, and Elizabeth Darwin often read to CD (see letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n. 9, and letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 September [1865] ). CD refers to Tylor 1865 and Lecky 1865 ; Hooker had recommended them in his letters of [26 May 1865] and 13 July 1865. CD’s bound volumes, many with annotations, of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History , ser. 1: vols. 1–20 (1838–47); ser. 2: vols. 1–14 (1848– …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
