To J. D. Hooker 13 August 1873
Summary
Asks JDH why so many plants are protected by a thin layer of waxy matter or with fine hairs.
Wrote to John Smith for a plant of Oxalis sensitiva, but it has not acted well.
Rejoices over Ayrton’s retirement. Hopes W. P. Adam, his successor, is a good sort of man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 270–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9007 |
To H. C. F. Jenkin 30 April [1873]
Summary
HCFJ’s review of the Origin was the wittiest and in some respects the best written.
Thanks him for his Electricity and magnetism [1873].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8304 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 October 1873
Summary
Describes work on Nepenthes – more difficult than Drosera.
Has written to Dublin for a Drosophyllum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9102 |
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- … J. D. Hooker 1874 ; reprinted in Nature , 3 September 1874, pp. 366–72). Hooker would have written to the Botanic Garden in Dublin for a specimen of Drosophyllum lusitanicum (the Portuguese sundew or dewy pine); CD had obtained specimens in 1869 (see Correspondence vol. 17). CD discussed Neptunia oleracea (a synonym of N. prostrata , the sensitive neptunia or water mimosa) in Movement in plants. The next extant letter …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Jenkin, H. C. F. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Jenkin, H. C. F. | (1) |
