To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 14 July [1877]
Summary
"Frank and I are working very hard on ""bloom"" and sleep" [movements]. Asks for succulent species for experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 14 July [1877] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 70–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11053 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1877] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 ). CD mentioned …
- … to Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 May [1877] ). Hooker replied that …
- … did not have it at Kew ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 ). The nocturnal movement …
- … J. D. Hooker, 31 May 1877 ). Hooker had offered CD Strephium floribundum instead of the species CD asked for, S. guianense . Hooker misread CD’s handwriting and could not identify the species he intended; see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1877]
Summary
CD counters Thiselton-Dyer’s objection to protoplasmic filaments of Dipsacus protruding beyond cell-wall, as Frank’s paper claims, by citing white "blood cells passing through vessels".
Has received Moseley’s collection of photographs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 435–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10874 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 January [1877] . Henry Nottidge Moseley ; see letter from J. …
- … between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 March 1877] . See letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, [2 March 1877] . Francis Darwin had delivered his paper on the teasel ( Dipsacus sylvestris ; F. Darwin 1877a ) at the Royal Society of London on 1 March 1877. CD alludes to Francis’s wife, Amy, who had died on 11 September 1876; see Correspondence vol. 24, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 31 May 1877
Summary
CD thanks JDH for assistance with "bloom" study.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 442 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10978 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1877]
Summary
Neptunia seeds germinated by applying great heat. CD wants advice of Kew gardener, R. I. Lynch, on how to proceed.
Printed public oration for CD’s Cambridge doctorate enclosed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 463 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11253 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … has not been found. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 November [1877] and n. 2, and letter …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 November 1877 . Richard Irwin Lynch was …
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 November 1877 . Neptunia oleracea (a synonym of N. prostrata ) is water mimosa or sensitive neptunia. CD discussed the movement of the cotyledons of Oxalis sensitiva (a synonym of Biophytum sensitivum ) in Movement in plants . See also letter …
To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1877]
Summary
CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.
CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.
Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 461–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11229 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 November 1877 . See letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 ). Susan Ridley Sedgwick Norton , the sister of Sara and Theodora, died in 1872. Theodora’s letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 7 November 1877 . CD discussed the movement of the cotyledons in Cycas pectinata in Movement in plants . Francis Darwin was assisting him with his work. William Erasmus Darwin was engaged to Sara Sedgwick . Hooker had met her sister Theodora on his 1877 visit to the US ( letter …
To J. D. Hooker 16 June [1877]
Summary
CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 June [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 443–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11002 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 October [1877]
Summary
Welcomes JDH home from American expedition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 457–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11195 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 . Hooker had reported his …
- … Hooker’s daughter Harriet Anne in June, was about to leave for a delayed honeymoon (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 …
- … United States. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 October 1877 and n. 3. William Erasmus …
From J. D. Hooker 29 May 1877
Summary
JDH’s view of Thiselton-Dyer’s engagement to his daughter, Harriet.
JDH is pleased to help with "bloom" questions.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 82–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10975 |
To Francis Darwin [c. 20 March 1877]
Summary
Asks FD to mollify Daniel Oliver and assure him that CD asks "only for what I wd. give my life’s blood for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 20 Mar 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10752 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 March [1877]
Summary
CD apologises for his burdensome request of Oliver.
Criticises JDH’s notice on Forsythia, which JDH said was dioecious. Forsythia sent to CD from Kew was heterostylous.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 437–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10906 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1877
Summary
JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 90–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11006 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [June 1877 or later]
Summary
Notes and extracts relating to "bloom".
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [June 1877 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 68: 32–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10751 |
To C. E. Norton 25 October 1877
Summary
CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Eliot Norton |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1877 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1597) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11208 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 459–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11226 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … gyrans , see the letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 October 1877] . Earlier in the year, William …
- … Hooker’s work on Welwitschia , see J. D. Hooker 1862 and Correspondence vol. 10. CD’s son-in-law, Richard Buckley Litchfield , had been taken ill with appendicitis in Switzerland in September 1877 ( letter …
To Hyacinth Hooker [18 November 1877]
Summary
Having a splendid time at awarding of LL.D.
Thanks for bananas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hyacinth Symonds; Hyacinth Jardine; Hyacinth Hooker |
| Date: | [18 Nov 1877] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11238 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 January 1877
Summary
CD thinks A. Günther’s tortoises are relics of closely allied forms, once widely distributed. Expressed this view to AG a few months ago. Cannot explain their restriction to volcanic islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 432–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10819 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1877
Summary
Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.
Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 97–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11227 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 November [1877] . CD had mentioned Theodora and Sara …
- … Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). Welwitschia plants have only two foliage leaves, which Hooker thought developed from the two cotyledons ( J. D. Hooker 1862 , p. 2). Welwitschia is a monospecific genus in the monotypic family Welwitschiaceae; Hooker classified it within the related family Gnetaceae. Richard Buckley Litchfield . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 November [1877] …
- … J. D. Hooker, 6 November [1877] and nn. 2 and 3. Hooker had a long-standing dislike of professional gardeners: of all classes of men Gardeners are the most troublesome I ever had dealings with—what with their superficial knowlged, tempers, the conflict of science & practice in their brains, conceit & tyrannical conduct to those under them— they do require very careful treatment ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
To Sara Sedgwick 29 September [1877]
Summary
Rejoices that SS has accepted his son [William]. Judging from his own experience "life would be a most dreary blank without a dear wife to love with all one’s soul".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Sara Sedgwick; Sara Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept [1877] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9524) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11158 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 November 1877
Summary
JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.
O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11234 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Botanic Gardens, Kew. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 November [1877] and n. 2. The friend …
- … Hooker gave his presidential address to the Royal Society of London on 30 November 1877 ( J. D. Hooker 1877a ). As director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Hooker had to submit estimates for expenses annually to the Board of Works. In his letter to Hooker of 8 November [1877] , …
| letter | (41) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Norton, C. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (6) |
| Darwin, Francis | (3) |
| Norton, C. E. | (2) |
