To J. D. Hooker 19 August 1873
Summary
Asks JDH to inquire of gardeners at Kew what they think about injury to plants from watering during sunshine. Wishes to experiment. He is already convinced that drops of water do not act as burning lenses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 272–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9017 |
From J. D. Hooker [22 August 1873]
Summary
Will arrive at Orpington by usual train.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9021 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 August 1873
Summary
He and Strachey will arrive on Saturday.
Is aghast at thought of being questioned on injury to plants by watering. Fears he will be considered an ignorant Director of Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 160–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9018 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 August 1873
Summary
Returned last night. Huxley, left at Baden Baden, remarkably well.
Would like to come to Down with Strachey.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8999 |
To J. T. Moggridge 27 August 1873
Summary
Comments on experiments of touching seeds with acid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Date: | 27 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 380 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9030 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 August [1873]
Summary
Starts tomorrow for visit to Farrer and Effie [Euphemia Farrer, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood]. Has not done such a feat [i.e., staying as a guest of someone outside the immediate family?] for 25 years.
Has been half killing himself with Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 268–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9000 |
From Richard Strachey 25 August 1873
Summary
Reports that grapes are spoiled by rain at vintage time and that damaged grapes, whose "bloom" is not intact, are particularly susceptible.
| Author: | Richard Strachey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 264 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9026 |
From W. E. Darwin [22 August 1873]
Summary
Experiments with Mimosa.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9022 |
From G. H. Darwin to Richard Strachey [29 August 1873]
Summary
Writes for CD to thank RS for his very valuable information.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Strachey |
| Date: | [29 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (IOL Mss Eur F127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9031 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 August 1873
Summary
Asks JDH why so many plants are protected by a thin layer of waxy matter or with fine hairs.
Wrote to John Smith for a plant of Oxalis sensitiva, but it has not acted well.
Rejoices over Ayrton’s retirement. Hopes W. P. Adam, his successor, is a good sort of man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 270–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9007 |
From C. L. Brace [August? 1873]
Summary
Reports that the ability to move ears is common among the Sioux.
| Author: | Charles Loring Brace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Aug? 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 273 (fragile letters) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8717 |
From Francis Darwin [25 August 1873]
Summary
Regrets that "our brush theory" is wrong.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Aug 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 142–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9016 |
To Francis Darwin 15 August [1873]
Summary
Observations on bees’ biting holes in Lathyrus.
Suggests an experiment FD could carry out with Drosera.
CD is working on Mimosa, and "everything has turned out as perversely as possible".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9014 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1873
Summary
Identifies three plants sent by CD.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 77: 173; DAR 209.6: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9034 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Brace, C. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Strachey, Richard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Strachey, Richard | (2) |
| Brace, C. L. | (1) |
