To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1864]
Summary
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Aug 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 242a, 242c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4576 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 August [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Aug [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4588 |
To J. D. Hooker [16 August 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [16 Aug 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4592 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 August [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Aug [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 247 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4593 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 August 1864]
Summary
First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.
Nepenthes is a true climber.
Scott has visited Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Aug 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4597 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 August 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Aug 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 245a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4599 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 August [1864]
Summary
CD is not well enough to sit for Woolner.
Two Bignonia plants, which JDH does not distinguish as species, can be separated by differences in climbing and sensitivity behaviour.
Wants to write a non-quarrelsome reply to R. A. Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86] in the Reader. Lyell opposes, but E. A. Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood support the idea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Aug [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4601 |