To J. D. Hooker [13 March 1846]
Summary
Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.
Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [13 Mar 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-961 |
To J. D. Hooker [24 March 1846]
Summary
C. G. Ehrenberg wants specimen grasses from Ascension Island.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [24 Mar 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-962 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 March or 5 April 1846]
Summary
If JDH can send grasses CD will write to Ehrenberg enclosing them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 Mar or 5 Apr] 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 58 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-963 |
To J. D. Hooker [May 1846]
Summary
Interested in sterility of alpine plants in lowland and sterility of some plants in cultivation.
Curious to see Galapagos paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [May 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-971 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 April [1846]
Summary
Is pleased JDH will attend to polymorphism and also with the botanical relation, as stated by JDH, between Africa and Java.
Would welcome any information on impregnation in the bud.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-973 |
To J. D. Hooker [16 April 1846]
Summary
CD’s suggestions for improving a paragraph by JDH.
On distribution of certain species and their variation relative to a central, typical form.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [16 Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-974 |
To J. D. Hooker [19 May 1846]
Summary
CD brought some plants in spirits from Tierra del Fuego. Did JDH see them?
Problems of explaining formation of coalfields. Comments on recent work on coal formation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [19 May 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-976 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 or 15 July 1846]
Summary
Regrets he cannot visit JDH.
Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.
Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8 or 15] July 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-986 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 September 1846]
Summary
Has nearly finished South America.
Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.
CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [3 Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-996 |
| letter | (29) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
