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DCP-LETT-11798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 479–80
Summary:

Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.

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DCP-LETT-11938

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 125–7
Summary:

Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.

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DCP-LETT-11939

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 481–2
Summary:

Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.

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DCP-LETT-12167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 485–8
Summary:

At work on Movement in plants.

Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".

Frank is working in Würzburg.

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DCP-LETT-12173

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 128–30
Summary:

JDH criticises John Ball’s theory of origin of higher plants in Carboniferous highlands, where low carbon dioxide levels permitted survival.

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DCP-LETT-12241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 489–90
Summary:

Searching for the right gardener.

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DCP-LETT-12242

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 131–2
Summary:

JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.

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DCP-LETT-12249F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Halls (dealers) (29 July 2009)
Summary:

Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.

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DCP-LETT-12251

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 133
Summary:

JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.

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DCP-LETT-12261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 185–6)
Summary:

Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.

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DCP-LETT-12290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 191)
Summary:

Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.

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DCP-LETT-12336

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 134–5
Summary:

Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.

Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.

Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.

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DCP-LETT-12338

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4)
Summary:

Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.

Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.

Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.

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DCP-LETT-12360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 95: 491–3
Summary:

Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.

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DCP-LETT-12362

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 136–7
Summary:

Argues against pension for Wallace because of his spiritualism; the underhanded way he brought about discussion of spiritualism at BAAS; his pocketing money from a bet on the sphericity of the earth; his lack of absolute poverty.

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DCP-LETT-12363

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 494–5
Summary:

JDH convinces CD not to press for pension for Wallace.

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DCP-LETT-6646

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 42–5
Summary:

Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

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DCP-LETT-6964

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236)
Summary:

Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.

Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!

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DCP-LETT-7115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 164–6
Summary:

Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.

A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.

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DCP-LETT-7128

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Mar [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 167–8
Summary:

Would like to see JDH become Sir J. H. Does not think JDH owes his position in science to his father.

Sends questions on Round Island – if JDH should write [to Henry Barkly?].

Has he read Federico Delpino on Marantaceae [Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 1 (1869): 293–206]?

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