From J. D. Hooker 31 August 1867
Summary
Has given up Scotland trip due to his mother’s illness.
Asks for Fritz Müller’s full name – "he can help us much".
Reports on self-impregnated Victoria and impregnation of Chatsworth plants. Difficult to get foreman [of gardens] to keep accurate register.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 176–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5619 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 September [1867]
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s address;
disagrees on Mary Barton.
Seeks name of the Mimulus on which he has experimented [see Variation 2: 128].
Requests flowers of yellow variety of Mirabilis jalapa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Sept [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 33–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5621 |
From J. D. Hooker [14 September 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Sept 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5627 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 September 1867]
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
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 180–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5651 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 November [1867]
Summary
Has finished last revise of his book [Variation].
Is curious to know what JDH thinks of Pangenesis. It is fearfully imperfect, yet satisfying, for it connects large groups of facts by an intelligible thread.
Thomas Woolner is coming [to do a bust of CD].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Nov [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 35–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5680 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1867]
Summary
Woolner’s bust.
Smith’s health.
St Helena Umbelliferae.
Brambles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Nov [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5696 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1867
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?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Dec 1867?] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5738 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 December 1867
Summary
Would like to come to Down on 20th or 21st.
Woolner is unwell.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5724 |
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