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DCP-LETT-10374

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 403
Summary:

Promises to vote for Lankester.

Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.

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DCP-LETT-10445

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 404–5
Summary:

McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.

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DCP-LETT-10457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 406
Summary:

Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10471

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 407
Summary:

CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.

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DCP-LETT-10542

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 408–12
Summary:

CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.

CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.

Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].

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DCP-LETT-10543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 413–14
Summary:

Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 415–16
Summary:

Asa Gray’s directed variation would make natural selection superfluous.

CD has read new theological reconciliations of Darwinism and religion.

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DCP-LETT-10592

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 417–18
Summary:

CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10606

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 419–20
Summary:

CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 423–4
Summary:

Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10653

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 425–6
Summary:

Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.

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DCP-LETT-10710

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 427–8
Summary:

Plants received from JDH.

Requests he verify an identification by Fritz Müller.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10721

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 429
Summary:

JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10282

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 49–50
Summary:

JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10371

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 51–2
Summary:

Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.

Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.

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DCP-LETT-10444

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 53–4
Summary:

Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10446

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 55
Summary:

Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10476

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 56
Summary:

Forwards copies of CD’s geology books.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10540

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 57–8
Summary:

JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.

Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.

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DCP-LETT-10556

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 59
Summary:

JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.

Preparing new editions of botany text-books.

His marriage is set for August.

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