From J. D. Hooker 13 November 1877
Summary
JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.
O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11234 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1877]
Summary
Neptunia seeds germinated by applying great heat. CD wants advice of Kew gardener, R. I. Lynch, on how to proceed.
Printed public oration for CD’s Cambridge doctorate enclosed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 463 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11253 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1877]
Summary
Suggests revisions in JDH’s 1877 Presidential Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1877): 427–46].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 465 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11257 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 or 13 October 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 or 13] Oct 1847 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1127 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1129 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 October 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1130 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 December 1880]
Summary
Asks JDH to read the enclosed Memorial, sign it, and send it to T. H. Huxley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Jeffrey Winograd (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11300F |
To J. D. Hooker [31 October 1847]
Summary
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1131 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [January 1878]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 [Jan 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 466 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11322 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1878
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11323 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1847]
Summary
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Nov 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1133 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 November 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 Nov 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1134 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 February 1878
Summary
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11356 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 February 1878
Summary
Supports idea to translate C. K. Sprengel, but opposes publishing it together with H. Müller because this would raise price of Müller’s useful book.
Confirms JDH’s observation that only tip of cabbage radicle shows geotropism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 467 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11360 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [February 1878]
Summary
CD solicits JDH’s aid in obtaining Government funds for James Torbitt’s efforts to breed disease resistance in potatoes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Feb 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 449–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11380 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 March 1878]
Summary
CD again asks JDH to support Torbitt’s project to breed disease-resistant potatoes. He has also sought support of Farrer, Duke of Richmond, and James Caird.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Mar 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 451–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11386 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 or 4 March 1878]
Summary
His attempts to obtain a Government grant for Torbitt seem hopeless.
CD is suffering from constant swimming of the head.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 or 4 Mar 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 453–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11390 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 March 1878
Summary
Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 103–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11391 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1878]
Summary
Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Mar [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11412F |
From J. D. Hooker 12 March 1878
Summary
Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.
Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 105–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11417 |
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