To J. D. Hooker 12–13 August [1863]
Summary
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12–13 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4266 |
To Charles Lyell 14 August [1863]
Summary
Congratulates CL on finding Arctic shells.
Comments on paper by E. B. Hunt ["On the origin, growth, substructure and chronology of the Florida reef", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 197–210].
Mentions J. D. Dana’s health.
George Bentham’s statement on species [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix].
Praises Bates’s book [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 14 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.296) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4267 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wedgwood portrait medallion of Erasmus Darwin (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 12–13 August [1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 August 1863 ). There is no evidence that Hooker visited Down after CD’s return from Malvern Wells, Worcestershire (see n. 4, below). CD travelled to London on 1 September 1863 with Henrietta Emma Darwin ; …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
