From J. D. Hooker [20 September 1867]
Summary
Would be delighted to see CD at Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Sept 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5631 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 October 1867
Summary
Must cut short visit to Down because of domestic problems.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 180–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5651 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867
Summary
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5683 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1867
Summary
Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.
Woolner comes on Sunday morning.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5731 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1867?]
Summary
Left his box of plants in dog-cart [on his visit to Down].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Dec 1867?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5738 |
