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DCP-LETT-1722

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:
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DCP-LETT-1731

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
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DCP-LETT-1736

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
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DCP-LETT-1737

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
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DCP-LETT-1741

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
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DCP-LETT-1742

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
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DCP-LETT-1763

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
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DCP-LETT-1773

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
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DCP-LETT-1774

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
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DCP-LETT-1781

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
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DCP-LETT-1785

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
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