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To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1855]
Summary
Asks JDH not to send H. C. Watson’s paper on Azores plants [Hooker’s Lond. J. Bot. 2 (1843): 1–9, 125–31, 394–408; 3 (1844): 582–617; 6 (1847): 380–97].
CD cannot endure trying all the Azorean seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 June [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1692 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1855]
Summary
Seeds: worried they will turn into another barnacle job.
Studies plants colonising abandoned field.
Experiment on plant sleep movements.
CD objects to "Atlantis" because no evidence; does not affect species theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 June [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1693 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1855]
Summary
Detailed response to JDH’s critique of sea transport and continental connection theories. JDH’s claim that low plants are widely distributed fits both theories.
Species theory does not touch origin of life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 June [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1696 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1855]
Summary
Thanks for Hedysarum.
Pleasure in identifying field plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [June 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1700 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1855]
Summary
Has used borrowing rights at Linnean Society Library arranged for him by JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [June 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1702 |
