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To J. D. Hooker   [June 1857]

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Request for Floras of Pacific Islands and Greenland.

Individual variation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [June 1857]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 222b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2198

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker    [June 1857] …
  • … questions for Hooker. In the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] , CD stated that …
  • … following the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] . The final question in this …
  • … in any species is apt to be highly variable ( letter to J.  D. Hooker, 16 [May 1857] ). …
  • … See also letters to J.  D. Hooker, 3 June [1857] and 5 June [1857] , in which CD expressed …
  • … a neighbouring Pacific island in 1857 ( J.  D. Hooker 1857 ), would presumably have known …
  • … by CD in the letters to J.  D. Hooker, 16 [May 1857] and 3 June [1857] . The chapter of …

To J. D. Hooker   5 June [1857]

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Royal Society medals.

Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.

Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  5 June [1857]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 201
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2102

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   5 June [1857] …
  • … to J.  D. Hooker, 2 June [1857] . See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 2 June [1857] . CD had …
  • … Frankland . See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 3 June [1857] . George Robert Waterhouse had …

To William Sharpey   2 June [1857]

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Supports nomination of John Lindley for award of Royal Medal of the Royal Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Sharpey
Date:  2 June [1857]
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 84)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2100

Matches: 2 hits

  • … and Joseph Prestwich was a recipient in 1865. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 2 June [1857] . …
  • … letter to J.  D. Hooker, 2 June [1857] . See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 2 June [1857] . See …

From J. D. Hooker   [27] June 1857

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Embryology of plants of low systematic order. Comparative development begins only with first post-cotyledonary leaves.

Curt letter to JDH from George Henslow.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [27] June 1857
Classmark:  DAR 100: 115
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2114

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   [27] June 1857
  • … June in 1857. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 25 June [1857] . George Henslow , the youngest …

To J. D. Hooker   3 June [1857]

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"Law" [see 2092] correlating variability and abnormal development not confirmed by JDH for plants.

CD studies struggle for existence in his weed garden.

Scotch fir observed at Moor Park.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  3 June [1857]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 200
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2101

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   3 June [1857] …
  • … see n.  8, below). See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 16 [May 1857] . In the discussion of this …
  • J.  D. Hooker, [April 1852] ). In an entry in his Experimental book, p.  27 (DAR 157a), headed ‘1857. …

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   [before 13 June 1857]

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Requests information from readers on breeding of dun or mouse-coloured ponies with a dark stripe down their backs. Must one or both parents be dun?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  [before 13 June 1857]
Classmark:  Gloucestershire Archives (T. C. Morton deposit D1021/8/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2105

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  • … June [1857] , and letters to J.  D. Hooker, 5 June [1857] , and to T.  C. Eyton, 26 [June …

To J. D. Hooker   25 June [1857]

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Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  25 June [1857]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 205
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2112

Matches: 1 hit

To J. D. Hooker   2 June [1857]

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Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  2 June [1857]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 199
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2099

Matches: 2 hits

  • … To J.  D. Hooker   2 June [1857] …
  • J.  D. Hooker, 8 April [1856] ). The previous year, CD had supported Joseph Prestwich and Albany Hancock as ‘eminently well qualified for the Royal Medal’ ( letter to Edward Sabine, 23 April [1856] ). See letter to William Sharpey, 2 June [1857] . …

To Asa Gray   18 June [1857]

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Thanks for AG’s remarks on disjoined species. CD’s notions are based on belief that disjoined species have suffered much extinction, which is the common cause of small genera and disjoined ranges.

Discusses out-crossing in plants.

Has failed to meet with a detailed account of regular and normal impregnation in the bud. Podostemon, Subularia, and underwater Leguminosae are the strongest cases against him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  18 June [1857]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (9a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2109

Matches: 1 hit

  • … and letter from Asa Gray, 1 June 1857 . J.  D. Hooker 1854 . Steudel 1840–1. See letter to …

To T. C. Eyton   9 June [1857]

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Comments on TCE’s work [Catalogue of the species of birds in his collection (1856)].

Mentions African dog’s skin.

Asks about colours of horses

and about variation in tracheae of male birds.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:  9 June [1857]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.146)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2103

Matches: 1 hit

  • … of horses, see the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 5 June [1857] and letter to T.  C. Eyton, 26 [ …