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From J. D. Hooker   2 July 1860

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JDH reports on the debate on the Origin at Oxford [BAAS] meeting.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 July 1860
Classmark:  DAR 100: 141–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2852

To J. D. Hooker   [2 July 1860]

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CD, ill and despondent about hostile reviews, is cheered by JDH’s account of Oxford battle, particularly by willingness of JDH and Huxley to fight for CD’s theory in public.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [2 July 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 64
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2853

To J. D. Hooker   [3 July 1860]

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Reread JDH’s letter "with infinite pleasure".

Plans to visit Kew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [3 July 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 66
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2856

To J. D. Hooker   [4 July 1860]

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CD will visit Kew on way home from E. W. Lane’s hydropathy establishment.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [4 July 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 65
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2858

To J. D. Hooker   12 July [1860]

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Floral anatomy; pistil curvature and pistil movement. CD’s rule that bent pistils occur in "gangway" into nectaries.

The book JDH is planning, which he and CD discussed at Kew, should deal with plant reproduction.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  12 July [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2864

To J. D. Hooker   19 [July 1860]

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Asa Gray’s anonymous review.

"Intensely interested" in orchid homologies; like a "game of chess".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  19 [July 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 68
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2871

To J. D. Hooker   [20? July 1860]

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CD’s reaction to review of the Origin [by Samuel Wilberforce] in Quarterly Review [see 2881].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [20? July 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 33a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2875

To J. D. Hooker   [17 July 1860]

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Asa Gray’s articles in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [10 Apr 1860] excellent; considering asking Athenæum to reprint them.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [17 July 1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 69
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2878

To J. D. Hooker   29 July [1860]

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Casual observations on Drosera.

Wants to know author of good review of Origin in London Review [& Wkly J. Polit. 1 (1860): 11–12, 32–3, 58–9].

Athenæum will reprint Gray’s discussion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  29 July [1860]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2880
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