From W. E. Darwin [April–May 1865]
Summary
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Horace Darwin went to Clapham Grammar School in spring 1865 after Emma had consulted his private tutor, George Varenne Reed , curate of Hayes, Kent ( letter …
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Prior to this, Horace had been so ill for three years that he was able to study for only short periods with Reed ( Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]
Summary
Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [Feb 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4772 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Horace Darwin , who had been in London since 20 February, returned home. The ‘Josselinas’ was the family nickname for Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood III’s daughters, with whom Edmund Langton was friendly (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
- … letter of 9 February [1865] , CD had encouraged Hooker to visit Down House. On 25 February 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that ‘Ed. 3 Jossi & Horace’ …
To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]
Summary
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 257a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4742 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Francis and Leonard returned to school on 2 February 1865, and suggests that George may also have been at Down for part of December 1864 and January 1865. CD’s youngest son, Horace, aged 13, had been recovering from an intermittent illness since 1862 (see Correspondence vols. 10–12). CD bracketed the lines in the second paragraph of this letter …
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
