From J. D. Hooker [12 October 1862]
Summary
Has sent two Impatiens flowers; curious to know what CD makes of the floral whorls and their vascular bundles.
Cassia is another genus that has different [coloured] anthers in same flower.
Continues to work on Welwitschia.
Feels as CD does about his work, which after a time seems flat and stale. He could never have done what CD did in his Orchids.
CD’s facts about Verbascum have horrible bearing on JDH’s practice of lumping species together.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 59–60, 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3757 |
From J. D. Hooker [18 October 1862]
Summary
Does CD want Masdevallia?
Sends addresses of persons in S. America who would send Melastomataceae seeds.
Has ordered Matthieu Bonafous on maize [Histoire naturelle du maïs (1836)].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Oct 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3774 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 October 1862
Summary
Has sent Masdevallia and other plants.
J. J. F. W. v. Parrot’s Ararat [(1834), trans. W. D. Cooley, in The world surveyed in the XIXth century, vol. 1 (1845)] refreshing in its simple faith in the ark.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 64–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3780 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
