To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1862]
Summary
Has passed the time by dissecting flowers of Cruciferae. Sends results, with diagrams, to JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3721 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1862
Summary
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 56–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3725 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 September 1862]
Summary
Thanks for JDH’s letter [3725].
Has become interested in experimenting on Drosera.
Observations on the ovaria of Cruciferae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [18 Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3729 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 September 1862
Summary
Asks his opinion of A. C. Ramsay’s glacial lake theory. Encloses Julius Haast’s communication on glacial phenomena.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 58, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s Correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 273) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3731 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [September 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Haast’s observations. Particularly glad to get geological evidence of glacial action (in Southern Hemisphere).
Thinks Ramsay’s theory to large extent true, but thinks that in a much disturbed country some lakes would have been formed in depressions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 [Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3735 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 September [1862]
Summary
Encloses MS on observations and experiments on Drosera. JDH’s opinion will help him decide whether to pursue subject in some future year.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 60.2: 88, DAR 115: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3738 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
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