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To J. D. Hooker   1 November [1861]

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Orchid anatomy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 123
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3304

To J. D. Hooker   1 November [1861]

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Orchid homologies.

Sensitive responses in Catasetum.

Acropera becoming clear.

T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 124
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3305

To J. D. Hooker   5 [November 1861]

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Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  5 [Nov 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 77
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3308

To J. D. Hooker   6 [November 1861]

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Rostellum of Masdevallia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  6 [Nov 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3309

To J. D. Hooker   7 November [1861]

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JDH’s Fernando Po case.

Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  7 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 125
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3310

To J. D. Hooker   8 November [1861]

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Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.

Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 126, 129b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3311

To J. D. Hooker   10 November [1861]

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CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  10 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 128, 129a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3315

To J. D. Hooker   14 November [1861]

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Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 130
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3318

To J. D. Hooker   17 November [1861]

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JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.

Faunal distribution and the glacial period.

Orchid homologies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  17 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 131
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3322

To J. D. Hooker   20 [November 1861]

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JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  20 [Nov 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 132
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3325

To J. D. Hooker   [22 November 1861]

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Transport of an orchid to Down.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [22 Nov 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 133
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3326

To J. D. Hooker   25 November [1861]

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Acropera species may be males of other orchids.

Homologies of ducts in orchids.

Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  25 Nov [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 134
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3329

To J. D. Hooker   1 December [1861]

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Rudimentary ovules of Acropera.

High opinion of Bates.

Orchid anatomy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 Dec [1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 135
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3337

To J. D. Hooker   [9 December 1861]

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Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].

H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [9 Dec 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 136, 129c
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3341

To J. D. Hooker   18 [December 1861]

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Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.

CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.

Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  18 [Dec 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 137
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3346

To J. D. Hooker   27 [December 1861]

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Seeks information on heating hothouses night and day.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  27 [Dec 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 138
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3351

To J. D. Hooker   28 [December 1861]

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Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.

Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  28 [Dec 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 139
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3352

From J. D. Hooker   [29 December 1861]

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Asks CD whether he hears from Asa Gray. JDH’s opinion of the crisis [Trent case, Nov 1861] and the American Civil War.

Julius von Haast alludes to glacial drift in Middle Island of New Zealand.

Backwardness of JDH’s son, Willy.

Encloses a reference from Daniel Oliver which may be useful.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [29 Dec 1861]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 1, 2a–c
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3374

From J. D. Hooker   [30 December 1861 or 6 January 1862]

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Glad CD has given up on Acropera ovules.

Doubts phanerogams less different in extreme forms [than Crustacea].

No systematic parallelism between plants and animals.

Offers list of Arctic plants with their colours. Asks CD whether it is useful to add colour to [descriptions of] plants.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [30 Dec] 1861 or [6 Jan] 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 3–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3375

To J. D. Hooker   [30 and 31 December 1861]

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Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  30 and 31 Dec 1861
Classmark:  DAR 115: 83a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3576
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