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DCP-LETT-10977

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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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-1098

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 96
Summary:

CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.

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DCP-LETT-1099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 97
Summary:

JDH’s books have arrived.

Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.

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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-1101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 98
Summary:

Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.

Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.

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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-1104

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 99
Summary:

Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.

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DCP-LETT-1105

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 100
Summary:

Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.

Urges JDH to go to Scotland.

Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.

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DCP-LETT-1106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 104
Summary:

Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.

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DCP-LETT-1110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 102
Summary:

Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.

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DCP-LETT-1118

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 103
Summary:

David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.

Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.

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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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