From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 December 1867
Summary
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5724 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1867?]
Summary
Left his box of plants in dog-cart [on his visit to Down].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Dec 1867?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5738 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1867
Summary
Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.
Woolner comes on Sunday morning.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5731 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867
Summary
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5683 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1867
Summary
Has been too busy to write. Is leaving for Switzerland that evening.
A friend, who ran away from home as a boy, has two sons who have done the same several times. Is the case worth investigating for CD?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 July 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 169–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5577 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 March 1867
Summary
Sends Naudin’s letter.
Pangenesis.
Benjamin Clarke is mad.
Interested in CD’s Ipomoea experiment.
Scott’s experiments are all in CD’s favour.
Clarifies a sentence in "Insular floras".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 147–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5449 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
