To J. D. Hooker 15 June 1881
Summary
CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 513–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13207 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 March [1881]
Summary
Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1881] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 212–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13094 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1881
Summary
At 63 JDH still works hard to support his family. Many friends have died. Memories of times past spent with CD lift his pessimism.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 152–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13209 |
To Wilhelm Breitenbach 20 [June] 1881
Summary
Glad WB has arrived in Brazil. Suggests study of insects and study of fertilisation in Melastomataceae. Want of books is not a serious evil.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Wilhelm Breitenbach |
| Date: | 20 [June] 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13021 |
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- … George Bentham, 7 May 1869 , and letter to Linnean Society, President and Council, [10 May 1869] ). Müller had written to CD about his observations of the different types of pollen in several plants of the Melastomaceae; CD had investigated some of these in 1861 and 1862 as possibly exhibiting a novel form of dimorphism (see letter to Fritz Müller, 20 March 1881 and nn. 2 and 3). CD told Müller that he hoped to repeat some of his earlier experiments ( letter to Fritz Müller, 12 …
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Breitenbach, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
