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To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Summary
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]
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 June [1857]
Summary
"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 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 June [1857]
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1857]
Summary
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 |
