From J. D. Hooker 23 June 1864
Summary
JDH going to visit W. H. Harvey in Ireland.
New curator at Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4543 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [June 1864]
Summary
John Scott preparing to leave soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 [June 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 239b, 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4544 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1864
Summary
JDH pursues the coffee plantation job for Scott.
Wrote 14 letters today. JDH’s work load.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 230–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4552 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1864]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4561 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1864]
Summary
Returned from Ireland, JDH wishes to visit Down.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 July 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4572 |
To J. D. Hooker [24 July 1864?]
Summary
Notes and queries on climbing plants for JDH [? given to him by CD at their meeting of 24 July 1864].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [24 July 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 242b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4573 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1864]
Summary
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 242a, 242c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4576 |
From Richard Spruce to J. D. Hooker 29 July 1864
Summary
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4577 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 July 1864]
Summary
The Kew agent has looked into ships to Calcutta for Scott, who should come to Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 July 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 264 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4584 |
From J. D. Hooker [4–]6 August 1864
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries on climbing plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–]6 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4585 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 August [1864]
Summary
Clarifies queries on climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4588 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 August 1864]
Summary
Replies to queries on climbing plants.
JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 232–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4590 |
To J. D. Hooker [16 August 1864]
Summary
Scott would be very welcome at Down for a short visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [16 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4592 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 August [1864]
Summary
Asks JDH to name a Bignonia.
Coming to end of climbing plants paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Aug [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 247 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4593 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 August 1864]
Summary
First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.
Nepenthes is a true climber.
Scott has visited Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4597 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 August 1864]
Summary
Believes he gave JDH wrong address.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [25 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 245a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4599 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1864
Summary
Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.
Will CD sit for Woolner?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 234–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4600 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 August [1864]
Summary
CD is not well enough to sit for Woolner.
Two Bignonia plants, which JDH does not distinguish as species, can be separated by differences in climbing and sensitivity behaviour.
Wants to write a non-quarrelsome reply to R. A. Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86] in the Reader. Lyell opposes, but E. A. Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood support the idea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4601 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1864
Summary
John Scott has sailed.
Concurs with Lyell that CD need not reply to Kölliker.
CD’s Bignonia plants cannot be told apart without flowers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 236–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4602 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 September 1864]
Summary
CD continues to have trouble reconciling the Veitch’s names for Bignonia plants and Kew names.
Lyell and Falconer called on CD in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [1 Sept 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4605 |
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