To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1855]
Summary
CD has begun seed-salting experiments. Wants JDH to write which seeds he expects to be easily killed [in salt water].
CD’s idea that coal-plants lived in salt water like mangroves made JDH savage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1661 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1855]
Summary
Pea self-fertilisation: has forty-five varieties growing side by side.
Describes seed-salting experiments: e.g., immersion in tank filled with snow. Reports some successful germinations.
Made list of naturalised plants from Asa Gray’s Manual [of Botany] to calculate the proportions of the great families.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1667 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 April [1855]
Summary
Rejects JDH’s suggestion that seed-salting experiments be conducted on huge scale. Only wishes to demonstrate possibility of sea transport, not establishment of any particular insular flora. More seed results.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 129 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1669 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 April [1855]
Summary
More on seed-salting. JDH’s admission that he expected seeds to die in a week gives CD "a nice little triumph".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1671 |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
