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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 74–6
Summary:

JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 77–9
Summary:

JDH recounts discussion at Royal Society over Günther’s paper on distribution and affinities of gigantic tortoises ["Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises, Parts III and IV", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 25 (1876–7): 506–7]. Huxley suggests they are Miocene relics.

Royal Society will publish Frank’s Dipsacus paper [but see 10971 and 11073].

Thiselton-Dyer will review Cross and self-fertilisation.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Mar 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 93–4
Summary:

JDH reports on Frank’s reading of his Dipsacus paper at the Royal Society. Huxley slept through much of it, but JDH is well pleased with it.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 80–1
Summary:

Oliver cannot, as CD has requested, hunt for trimorphic flowers in the Herbarium’s collection of Oxalis specimens. He would help Frank if he comes.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 82–3
Summary:

JDH’s view of Thiselton-Dyer’s engagement to his daughter, Harriet.

JDH is pleased to help with "bloom" questions.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 84–5
Summary:

Responding to CD’s request for assistance with his study of "bloom", JDH sends seeds, a list of available plants, and a list of English wild plants with "bloom".

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 86–7
Summary:

JDH has to entertain the Emperor of Brazil [Pedro II], who wants to meet CD.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 88–9
Summary:

JDH finds the Emperor, once an energetic man, all used up.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 90–1
Summary:

JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 92
Summary:

Emperor of Brazil continues to press JDH for a meeting with CD.

JDH’s daughter, Harriet, marries W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 95–6
Summary:

JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 97–8
Summary:

Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.

Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 99–100
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.

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