From J. D. Hooker 13 March 1879
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 125–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11938 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 March [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 481–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11939 |
From Francis Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March 1879
Summary
Frank decides to accept Cambridge nomination for examiner; thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for their encouragement.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 483–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11941 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1879]
Summary
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 July [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 485–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12167 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 July 1879
Summary
JDH criticises John Ball’s theory of origin of higher plants in Carboniferous highlands, where low carbon dioxide levels permitted survival.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 128–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12173 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 October [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 489–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12241 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 October 1879
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 131–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12242 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 October [1879]
Summary
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | Halls (dealers) (29 July 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12249F |
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1879
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12251 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1879]
Summary
Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 185–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12261 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 November [1879]
Summary
Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Nov [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 191) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12290 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1879
Summary
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 134–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12336 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1879]
Summary
Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.
Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.
Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12338 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 December 1879
Summary
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 491–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12360 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 December 1879
Summary
Argues against pension for Wallace because of his spiritualism; the underhanded way he brought about discussion of spiritualism at BAAS; his pocketing money from a bet on the sphericity of the earth; his lack of absolute poverty.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 136–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12362 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 December [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 494–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12363 |
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