From J. D. Hooker 3 March 1874
Summary
The row at the Linnean Society and other troubles.
The Agricultural Society has sent Anton De Bary £100 to investigate the potato disease – an insult to M. J. Berkeley, who had worked on it for 30 years.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 189–92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9331 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1874]
Summary
JDH should do as he likes with insectivorous plant materials.
He has always thought telling JDH what he has been doing was as good as publishing.
Cephalotus seems as horrid a puzzle as Utricularia.
Nepenthes will turn out a great job if the pitchers of different species act differently. JDH’s paper on Nepenthes [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16] is too long for CD’s book. Well deserves a place in Philosophical Transactions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 July [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 328–31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9560 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 16 July 1874 ). CD refers to descriptions sent to him by Hermann Crüger , who observed bees of the genus Euglossa gnawing the fleshy protuberance of the labellum (large lip petal) in flowers of the orchid Catasetum (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 …
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
