To J. D. Hooker [after 10 June 1863]
Summary
Notes on drops of nectar on sepals of cypripedium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [after 10 June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 151: 331 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585F |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1863]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".
John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.
Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4207 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 June 1863
Summary
JDH lays hard treatment of John Scott to J. H. Balfour’s anti-Darwinism.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 149–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4210 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 June 1863
Summary
Has heard from Julius von Haast that some of his letters were lost before leaving New Zealand. Haast’s enclosure for CD has been forwarded.
Haast and James Hector have both sent accounts of their travels in New Zealand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4216 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1863]
Summary
Herbert Spencer’s work disappointing – "all words & generalities".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4218 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [June 1863]
Summary
CD describes first observation of gyratory motion of tendrils: explains its adaptive function is to find objects to hold on to.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 [June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4221 |
From J. D. Hooker [2]9 June 1863
Summary
JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.
CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].
JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".
[Dated 9 June by JDH.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2]9 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 147–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4224 |
| letter | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
