From J. D. Hooker [17 May 1862]
Summary
Discusses Leschenaultia, finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium.
Gives information on where to obtain paper for drying plants and where to obtain a microscope.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 28 (EH 88206079) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3527 |
From J. D. Hooker [16 May 1862]
Summary
Has dissected Leschenaultia biloba flowers. Finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium. Describes what is the apparent stigma but has found no pollen-tubes to confirm it as the real one.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 27 (EH 88206079)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3530 |
From J. D. Hooker [5 May 1862]
Summary
Household problems – stolen silver, maids. His house for some months has had reputation for being not a little disreputable.
On Cameroon plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [5 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 33, 134a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3537 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 May 1862
Summary
Does not know Rhododendron boothii; is sending Rhododendron keysii, a remarkable form. Will send Melastomataceae anon.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3567 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 May 1862]
Summary
Sends two flowers of Vanilla and two Melastomataceae.
Has worked on Cameroon list ["Mountain flowering plants and ferns of the Cameroons", in Burton, Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains (1863) 2: 270–7]
and Genera plantarum.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3574 |
