From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 139
Summary:
Parcels sent to Down by coach may get lost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 143a
Summary:
Praise for JDH’s Flora Indica [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson (1855)] from CD and C. J. F. Bunbury.
CD and J. S. Henslow dining in London. JDH invited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 [Dec 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 143
Summary:
Burying charlock seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 144
Summary:
Morning with H. C. Watson; discussed problems of inferences from buried seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129)
Summary:
Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.
When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?
Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 145
Summary:
When JDH goes to Germany, will he ask seed men if their marvellous true breeding lines are the result of selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Oct 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 146
Summary:
Seeds of two tropical island plants have floated for ten days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 151
Summary:
Sick of seed-salting.
Reading Candolle with great interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 153
Summary:
Naudin’s theory, in J. Decaisne’s review of Flora Indica, of subspecies descended from a single stock only adds to the confusion. John Lindley and M. J. Berkeley cut down species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 154
Summary:
Very impressed by Candolle’s book [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)]. Wants to recalculate his results.
CD’s pigeon fancy is getting on.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 155
Summary:
Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.
Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 157
Summary:
CD not sure that he can come to London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
23 July 1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.133, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-7-1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.109-110, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 July 1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.111, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13?-7-1855?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.112, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 July 1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.113-114, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1855?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.115, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1855?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.116, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
4 page letter over 1 folio.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
26 June 1855
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.213, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project