To J. D. Hooker 5 [November 1861]
Summary
Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3308 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 [November 1861]
Summary
Rostellum of Masdevallia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 [Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3309 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 November [1861]
Summary
JDH’s Fernando Po case.
Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3310 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1861]
Summary
Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.
Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 126, 129b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3311 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 November [1861]
Summary
CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 128, 129a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3315 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1861]
Summary
Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3318 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 November [1861]
Summary
JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.
Faunal distribution and the glacial period.
Orchid homologies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3322 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 [November 1861]
Summary
JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 [Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3325 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1861]
Summary
Transport of an orchid to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3326 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1861]
Summary
Acropera species may be males of other orchids.
Homologies of ducts in orchids.
Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Nov [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3329 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1861]
Summary
Rudimentary ovules of Acropera.
High opinion of Bates.
Orchid anatomy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3337 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 December 1861]
Summary
Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 136, 129c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3341 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [December 1861]
Summary
Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.
CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.
Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3346 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [December 1861]
Summary
Seeks information on heating hothouses night and day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3351 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1861]
Summary
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3352 |
To J. D. Hooker [30 and 31 December 1861]
Summary
Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 and 31 Dec 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 83a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3576 |
