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To J. D. Hooker   [8 October 1846]

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Can JDH bring a good book on Corallina or Nullipora of Lamarck?

CD intends writing paper on their propagation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [8 Oct 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1007

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  • … 1834 ). See Sloan 1985 . Probably John Hensleigh Allen , see Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 100. …
  • … et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Emma Darwin ( …
  • … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …

To J. D. Hooker   [8 or 15 July 1846]

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Regrets he cannot visit JDH.

Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.

Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [8 or 15] July 1846
Classmark:  DAR 114: 63
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-986

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  • … to 7 July 1846, see letter to Emma Darwin, [24 June 1846] , n.  2. The British Association …
  • … vol.  3, Appendix II). Emma, William, and Anne Darwin were in Tenby from 19 June …

To J. D. Hooker   [8? February 1846]

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Will visit JDH in spring.

Will JDH ask Gay what birds, reptiles, or mammifers inhabit Juan Fernández [Island]?

Has JDH seen William Herbert’s paper ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [8? Feb 1846]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 52
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-950

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  • Emma yesterday to thank Lady Hooker & yourself for the Goldsmith Hall good-things, which will delight the children: I am going to send to Bromley tomorrow & will enquire at the Coach offices. Will you ask Gay for me, what Birds, Reptiles or Mammifers (not introduced) inhabit Juan Fernandez? I have always been curious about it— In Haste. I will write again before long. My dear Hooker | C.  Darwin
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