To J. D. Hooker [17 February 1858]
Summary
General success of survey makes CD very concerned about sources of error. Wants to meet JDH for an important talk about big genera. Arranges meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2209 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 [February 1858]
Summary
Returns books by Candolle and Robert Brown.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 [Feb 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2210 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1858]
Summary
Six volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus confirm rule that small genera vary less than large. Labiatae an exception to rule.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2212 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1858]
Summary
Fertilisation of clover by bees in New Zealand.
Uneasy about biggest genera and their varieties.
H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [History of civilisation in England (1857)].
Working on bees’ cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2222 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1858]
Summary
JDH has confirmed CD’s opinion on the affinities of species in great genera. Is looking at large genera in several local Floras to find the "range & commonness of varying species".
Has been "beyond measure interested" in the construction instincts of the hive-bee.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2228 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
