From J. D. Hooker 1 July 1870
Summary
Hibiscus and Nolana seeds not harvested at Kew. Sends list of the best plants of Lilium he can give.
Asks CD for name of work on orchids mentioned in his supplementary paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 51–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7258 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 or 7 July 1870]
Summary
Has CD read E. Claparède ["Remarques à propos de l’ouvrage de M. Alfred Russel Wallace sur la théorie de la sélection naturelle", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 38 (1870): 160–89]? Is it worth translating?
CD and J.-F. de Brandt are "en lutte for Ac. of Sc. [France]. What a farce it is".
His work on Nepenthes supports Miquel’s and Wallace’s view of the zoology of Borneo and Sumatra.
Brian Hodgson on dogs.
H. C. Bastian’s book [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)] unsatisfactory.
Lyell does not share CD’s view of Bentham’s address.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 or 7 July 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 55–56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7267 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1870
Summary
Sends seeds from R. L. Playfair in Algiers.
F. Delpino writes asking where M. A. Curtis has published physiological observations on Dionaea ["Enumeration of plants growing spontaneously around Wilmington, North Carolina", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (1834–7): 82–140; see Insectivorous plants, p. 301 n.].
Talk with Duke of Argyll on CD’s and Wallace’s views on man.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 53–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 17a: 117) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7272 |
