From George Stewardson Brady 19 March 1865
Summary
CD’s statement in Origin that clover is utterly dependent on humble-bee for fertilisation has been questioned by his friend’s evidence of visits by other insects. Asks CD’s opinion.
| Author: | George Stewardson Brady |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 276 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4790 |
From John Lubbock 22 and 26 March 1865
Summary
JL’s MS at printer’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Apologises for failure to post letter.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 and 26 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4791 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … John Lubbock, 22 and 26 March 1865 and n. 3). The reference is to Auguste Laugel . In 1860, …
- … John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. Jordan, Alexis. 1864. Diagnoses d’espèces nouvelles ou méconnues, pour servir de matériaux à une flore réformée de la France, et des contrées voisines. Paris: F. Savy. Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1860. …
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 June 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
From F. H. Hooker 13 September [1865]
Summary
J. D. Hooker’s health is improving;
he has been offered the Directorship at Kew.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 235–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4893 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1860 , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 October 1863 ). J. D. Hooker succeeded his father, William Jackson Hooker , as director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He took up his appointment on 1 November 1865 ( Allan 1967 , p. 211; R. Desmond 1999 , p. 221). John and Ellen Frances Lubbock …
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Brady, G. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Brady, G. S. | (1) |
| Henslow, F. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, F. H. | (1) |
