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To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1861]
Summary
Rudimentary ovules of Acropera.
High opinion of Bates.
Orchid anatomy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3337 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 December 1861]
Summary
Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 136, 129c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3341 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [December 1861]
Summary
Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.
CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.
Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3346 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [December 1861]
Summary
Seeks information on heating hothouses night and day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3351 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1861]
Summary
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3352 |
To J. D. Hooker [30 and 31 December 1861]
Summary
Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 and 31 Dec 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 83a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3576 |
