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DCP-LETT-3101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 92
Summary:

Henslow is dying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 93
Summary:

H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".

H. C. Watson’s hostility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3111

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 95
Summary:

Affectionate regards to Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3116

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 96
Summary:

CD infers [incorrectly] from Huxley’s report that Henslow is dead.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3119

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 97
Summary:

CD misunderstood Huxley: Henslow is not dead.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3125

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 98
Summary:

Offers to go to Henslow despite his own poor health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 99
Summary:

Henslow’s long suffering.

Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 100
Summary:

Henslow’s death.

What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

Beaton not to be trusted.

CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24–5 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 101
Summary:

CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 102
Summary:

Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3190

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 103
Summary:

CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.

William Darwin’s partnership in bank.

Work: variation and orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 84
Summary:

Many mutual acquaintances are ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 104
Summary:

Trip to Torquay.

Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 105
Summary:

Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.

On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 106
Summary:

Orchids from Kew.

JDH’s income problems.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3220

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 107
Summary:

On orchids supplied by Kew; homologies of pollen and rostellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 July – 10 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 109
Summary:

Puzzled by function of orchids’ rostellum.

Orchids’ pollen concentrated in two pollinia; hence one flower can fertilise only two others. This may explain precision of orchid pollination mechanisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3226

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: : 108
Summary:

Has found function of rostellum: modified stigma guarantees attachment of pollinia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3231

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 110
Summary:

Personal regards.

William Darwin will make a botanist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 111
Summary:

Orchid anatomy. Requests Lindley’s work on orchids [The genera and species of orchidaceous plants (1830–40)].

Contributor:
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