From George Bentham [after 12 July 1877]
Summary
Answers CD’s query on "bloom".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 12 July 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11051 |
From George Bentham 13 December 1876
Summary
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10718 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 15 February [1864]
Summary
John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4406 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 October [1870]
Summary
Does not think so poorly of Nature as JDH does, by any means; fears Popular Science Review is rather ephemeral but more durable than Nature.
The case of the charlock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Oct [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 184–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7344 |
From Daniel Oliver 23 October 1865
Summary
Returns a paper which he has looked over.
Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4922 |
To Asa Gray 3 January 1877
Summary
Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].
Is glad of the notice about black pigs.
Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;
thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (118) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10768 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July 1868
Summary
Thinks JDH would be wise not to touch on Pangenesis; it has very few friends. Bentham is doubtful, Carus against, and Alphonse de Candolle likes it least in the book. CD still convinced it will be hereafter looked on as "best hypothesis of generation inheritance & development". If JDH means to cut up Pangenesis he has no word to say in opposition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 76–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6276 |
CD’s notes arising from conversations with J. D. Hooker 8 December 1844
Summary
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 35–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-798 |
From G. J. Romanes 14 July 1875
Summary
Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1875 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10065 |
To Fritz Müller 2 November 1867
Summary
Variation to be published at end of month.
Dimorphism and self-sterility.
Seed dissemination in Adenanthera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 2 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5666 |
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 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 14 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus paper.
Dislikes the word "protoplasm", because improved microscopes will uncover more fundamental substances. Also "plasma" merely hides the ignorance of modern chemists.
Expects waxy, glaucous-leaved plants to be most frequent in dry temperate climates.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11106 |
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 |
To Asa Gray 9 August [1862]
Summary
Believes Lythrum is trimorphic. Asks AG for seeds of plants he suspects are polymorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 9 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (71) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3685 |
To Asa Gray 16 February [1862]
Summary
Floral structure of Melastoma. Asks AG to observe position of pistils in lately-opened flowers of different plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3448 |
Matches: 1 hit
From J. D. Hooker [2]9 June 1863
Summary
JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.
CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].
JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".
[Dated 9 June by JDH.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2]9 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 147–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4224 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [April 1867]
Summary
Has sent JDH’s Genera plantarum to Fritz Müller who finds it useful and offers to supply JDH with Brazilian plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 23–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5514 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1865
Summary
Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.
CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1860]
Summary
Lyell, de facto, first to stress importance of geological changes for geographical distribution.
Asa Gray has given CD too much credit for theories of geographical distribution.
Reaction to hostile criticism
and debt to Lyell, Huxley, JDH, and W. B. Carpenter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2802 |
letter | (42) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Bentham, George | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (40) |
Hooker, J. D. | (22) |
Gray, Asa | (5) |
Bentham, George | (3) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |