From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1874
Summary
Stupefied by CD’s trouble and kindness. All he wanted for Belfast meeting was assurance that mention of published work on Drosera, etc., in Nature, etc., would not interfere with CD’s book.
Would like his Nepenthes results to go to CD or to Royal Society, but prefers CD take them.
Cephalotus very puzzling.
Peas and cabbage grow twice as fast after two days’ immersion in Nepenthes as when placed in distilled water, but four days’ immersion seems to kill them.
Has a splendid Australian Drosera twice as big as D. rotundifolia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 210–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9558 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1874]
Summary
JDH should do as he likes with insectivorous plant materials.
He has always thought telling JDH what he has been doing was as good as publishing.
Cephalotus seems as horrid a puzzle as Utricularia.
Nepenthes will turn out a great job if the pitchers of different species act differently. JDH’s paper on Nepenthes [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 102–16] is too long for CD’s book. Well deserves a place in Philosophical Transactions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 July [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 328–31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9560 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 August 1874
Summary
Describes his work on Nepenthes.
Cephalotus is a beast.
His address is a history of Dionaea, Sarracenia, and Drosera.
Thiselton-Dyer has helped enormously except with the observations; but his health is so poor that JDH thinks he is "evidently cut out for a Literate not a working botanist".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 214–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9602 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 August 1874
Summary
It is splendid how Nepenthes is behaving. Drosera and Dionaea are insignificant by comparison.
Takes rather a malicious pleasure in JDH’s failure with Cephalotus as a match to his with Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 332–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9604 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 August 1874]
Summary
Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.
Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.
Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Aug 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 219–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9610 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1874]
Summary
Thanks JDH for his "quite admirable" address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874) pt 2: 102–16]. Suggests revisions.
CD thinks he is "now on right track about Utricularia" after wasting several weeks "in fruitless trials and observations".
Mrs Barber’s paper is very curious and ought to be published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/6/3 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9613 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 4 September 1874]
Summary
Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 222–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9615 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 334–335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9629 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1874
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer’s announcement of his inability to continue as JDH’s private secretary is a blow. He will now be doing original work. JDH is glad of that but the loss of his help is great.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 88–9; DAR 103: 221; Insectivorous plants, p. 5 n. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9638 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 September [1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Sept [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 336–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9645 |
To J. D. Hooker [20 September 1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 338 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9647 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 September 1874
Summary
CD’s Utricularia findings – bladders, subterranean roots, and insects decomposing in them – a grand discovery.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 224–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9655 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [September 1874]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 339 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9662 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 September 1874
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 93–94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9663 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 [September 1874]
Summary
The Aldrovanda has arrived. Has examined the leaves. It is an aquatic Dionaea which has acquired some structures identical to those of Utricularia!
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 [Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 340–341 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9664 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 October [1874]
Summary
Thanks JDH for extract on Hedychium pollination; it shows CD’s prior interpretation was incorrect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Oct [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 421–422 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9665 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 October 1874
Summary
Asks JDH for leaves of Byblis and Roridula to examine, and D. Oliver for an anomalous species of Utricularia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 341a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9670 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 October 1874
Summary
Oliver will attend to his letter.
Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.
Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.
His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 226–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9673 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 December 1874?]
Summary
Probably a discussiion of J. D. Hooker’s feelings after death of his wife, Frances Harriet, on 13 November 1874: the letter is badly damaged.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Dec 1874?] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9719F |
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1874]
Summary
Extremely glad to have JDH come to Down. It is wise of JDH to exert himself and face the inevitable as well as he can. [Death of JDH’s wife, 13 Nov.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Nov 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 342 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9728 |
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