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DCP-LETT-10972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 May [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 440–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 69)
Summary:

CD has again become interested in "bloom" on plants; requests JDH’s help with seeds and plants.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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-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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
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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-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.

Contributor:
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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.

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11229

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 461–2
Summary:

CD and Frank working hard on cotyledonary movement.

CD suggests technique for growing Welwitschia.

Approves of J. D. Dana and of O. Heer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1123

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 108
Summary:

Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.

Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.

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DCP-LETT-11253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 463
Summary:

Neptunia seeds germinated by applying great heat. CD wants advice of Kew gardener, R. I. Lynch, on how to proceed.

Printed public oration for CD’s Cambridge doctorate enclosed.

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DCP-LETT-11257

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 465
Summary:

Suggests revisions in JDH’s 1877 Presidential Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1877): 427–46].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1127

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 or 13] Oct 1847
Source of text:
DAR 114: 105
Summary:

Difficulty of scheduling visit before JDH departs on Himalayan expedition.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1129

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 107
Summary:

On scheduling farewell meeting.

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