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DCP-LETT-10978

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 95: 442
Summary:

CD thanks JDH for assistance with "bloom" study.

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DCP-LETT-11000

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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DCP-LETT-11002

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 443–4
Summary:

CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.

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DCP-LETT-11003

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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DCP-LETT-11006

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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DCP-LETT-11015

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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DCP-LETT-11190

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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DCP-LETT-11195

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 457–8
Summary:

Welcomes JDH home from American expedition.

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DCP-LETT-11210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Oct 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 455–6
Summary:

Requests seeds for experiments he and Frank are doing on automatic movements of cotyledons.

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DCP-LETT-11220

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.4: 432
Summary:

Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11226

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 459–60
Summary:

Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.

Son William is to be married 28 November.

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DCP-LETT-11227

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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DCP-LETT-11229

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 461–2
Summary:

CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.

CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.

Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.

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DCP-LETT-11234

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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DCP-LETT-11253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 463
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.

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DCP-LETT-11257

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 465
Summary:

Suggests revisions in JDH’s 1877 Presidential Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1877): 427–46].

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DCP-LETT-11322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 466
Summary:

In London and wishes to meet JDH.

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DCP-LETT-11323

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 101–2
Summary:

Invites CD to Kew.

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DCP-LETT-11356

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 113
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.

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DCP-LETT-11360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 95: 467
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.

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