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To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1855]
Summary
JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.
On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 May [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 131 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1680 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1855]
Summary
CD upset because salted seeds do not float.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [May 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1681 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 May [1855]
Summary
CD’s seed paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8];
CD attacks Forbes’s "Atlantis".
Considers solutions to floating problem. Decides to test Azores seeds.
Photographs and drawings of CD.
Plant movement experiments with Hedysarum gyrans.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 May [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1688 |
