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From Thomas Stanley   24 January 1872

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Wants references to the work of Julius von Haast and James Hector on New Zealand glaciers, which CD mentions in the Origin [6th ed., p. 335].

Author:  Thomas Stanley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 177: 246
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8177

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  • … vol.  12, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 15 June 1864  and n.  10), and Hector 1864 . Stanley …

From J. D. Hooker   15 June 1872

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Expects the memorial to make Gladstone frantic. Government regrets granting Lord Derby the correspondence and Lubbock has been advised to postpone calling for it in Lower House. This looks fishy. Is exhausted by the affair.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 June 1872
Classmark:  DAR 103: 114–15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8386

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  • … vol.  12, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 29 March 1864 ). Maria Hooker . John James Robert …

From J. D. Hooker   24 January 1872

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William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.

Other family news.

No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.

Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 103: 103–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8176

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 3 July 1871 ). CD had acquired specimens of Leersia oryzoides in 1864 (see …

From J. D. Hooker   29 August 1872

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Encloses letter and cheque [from John Scott].

Again in thick of Ayrton matter. Tyndall and Huxley have shown themselves equal to the occasion in grasp of subject, tenacity of purpose, independence, and good-will.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Aug 1872
Classmark:  DAR 103: 118–19; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156 f. 1075)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8492

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  • Hooker had previously sent CD a letter from Scott regarding the repayment of money that CD had given Scott in 1864 (see Correspondence vol.  19, enclosure to letter from J.  D.   …
  • Hooker against the criticism of Richard Owen (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 August [1872] , n.  4). CD and Hooker had helped Scott to obtain a position at a Cinchona plantation near Darjeeling in 1864; …

From George Sparkes   14 February 1872

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Describes some crosses he has carried out with Primula;

mentions the infertility of cherimoyer [Annona cherimola] in England.

Author:  George Sparkes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1872
Classmark:  DAR 177: 223
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8213

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  • … vol.  12, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 April [1864] and n.  8). The cherimoya is Annona …

From J. D. Hooker   8 November 1872

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Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.

Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].

A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Nov 1872
Classmark:  DAR 103: 130–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8609

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  • Hooker on the ideal location of the national herbarium, see the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 27 October [1872] and nn.  3 and 4. Alfred William Bennett was the subeditor of Nature ; the editor was Norman Lockyer . Hooker had suffered from rheumatic fever in 1839 and 1864 ( …

From John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone   20 June 1872

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Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  William Ewart Gladstone
Date:  20 June 1872
Classmark:  Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, pp. 41–9.
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8403F

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  • 1864 with the costs to be borne by the Stationery Office. Daniel Oliver , under the supervision of J.  D.  Hooker, …