From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 Apr 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10282 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 January 1876
Summary
Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.
Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10371 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1876
Summary
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10444 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10446 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 April 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10476 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 June 1876
Summary
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10540 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1876
Summary
JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.
Preparing new editions of botany text-books.
His marriage is set for August.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10556 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 September 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10597 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 September 1876]
Summary
JDH again expresses his condolences.
The Glasgow BAAS meeting was good, except for Tait’s shameful attack on Tyndall.
Immensely impressed on Scottish geological and glacial features. Is CD aware that the earth beneath Glen Roy roads was found to contain freshwater diatoms?
Recounts the itinerary of his honeymoon in Scotland.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 62–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10605 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1876
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10642 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1876
Summary
JDH looking for Hoya for CD.
Hookers tried to visit Down on foot, but weather was too inclement.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10658 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1876
Summary
JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].
Return of Challenger.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10671 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 December 1876
Summary
He has examined Hoya flowers with Bentham and Oliver, but they are not satisfied about the five processes alternating with the sepals. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 331–2.] Sends specimens of plants.
Babington’s surprise at JDH’s advocacy of Darwinian views at Norwich [BAAS meeting].
Criticism of the behaviour of the trustees of the British Museum [in the Challenger affair].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A85, DAR 104: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10705 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 December 1876
Summary
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 71–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10715 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 December 1876
Summary
Notes variation in style and stamen length in Forsythia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B78a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10727 |
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