To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1866]
Summary
Requests water-lily pods to count, weigh, and to germinate some of the seeds of the crossed and uncrossed pods.
Hopes Haeckel did not bore him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5262 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 November 1866
Summary
Left strict orders about Euryale seeds but "labour, difficulty and expense of getting anything done scientifically by practical men is untold".
The E. J. Eyre controversy [Jamaica uprising]. Odd that Huxley joins the "persecution fund". The principles involved are fiddlesticks.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Nov 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 110–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5266 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 November [1866]
Summary
Requests roots of two species of Mirabilis for "a curious experiment in crossing".
Has subscribed £10 to Jamaica committee to prosecute Governor Eyre.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5281 |
From J. D. Hooker [22 November 1866]
Summary
His views on the Eyre controversy.
Went to Shrewsbury (for sale of Susan’s effects), hoping to buy some Wedgwood medallions, but they had been bought.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 112–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5283 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1866]
Summary
Will visit Kew on Tuesday [27 Nov].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5284 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
