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To J. D. Hooker [6 July 1861]
Summary
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 July 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3200 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 July [1861]
Summary
Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.
On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3207 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [July 1861]
Summary
Orchids from Kew.
JDH’s income problems.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 [July 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3210 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 July [1861]
Summary
On orchids supplied by Kew; homologies of pollen and rostellum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3220 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 July – 10 August 1861]
Summary
Puzzled by function of orchids’ rostellum.
Orchids’ pollen concentrated in two pollinia; hence one flower can fertilise only two others. This may explain precision of orchid pollination mechanisms.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 July – 10 Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3221 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
