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To J. D. Hooker   [8 February 1864]

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Compares Clematis and Tropaeolum with respect to touch response. Tropaeolum shows a momentary response and quick recovery. Clematis takes hours to respond, and shows no recovery.

CD can show the gradations between leaves and tendrils, but how a branch passes into a tendril utterly puzzles him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [8 Feb 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 219
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4403

To J. D. Hooker   [20–]22 February [1864]

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Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.

Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.

Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?

Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [20–]22 Feb [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 221a–c
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4412

To J. D. Hooker   24 [February 1864]

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Asks for a Smilax to study movement.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24 [Feb 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 222
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4414

From J. D. Hooker   [before 9 February 1864]

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Bentham proposes John Scott be made an associate of the Linnean Society.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 9 Feb 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 182
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4399

From J. D. Hooker   5 February 1864

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John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.

Himalayan pine in Macedonia.

JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Feb 1864
Classmark:  DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4401

From J. D. Hooker   16 February 1864

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CD’s climbing plant experiments make it impossible to deny nerve force in plants.

Has discussed Frankland’s new glacial theory with Lyell.

Bishop Colenso’s trial.

Possibility of Scott’s coming to Kew as a curator.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Feb 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 183–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4408

From J. D. Hooker   [20 February 1864]

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Sends a Corydalis.

Hermann Crüger’s paper [see 4394] splendid, but he has made a mess of propagating Cinchona in Trinidad.

JDH’s opinion of Germans.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [20 Feb 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 186–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4413
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