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DCP-LETT-5300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 308, 308b
Summary:

A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?

A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.

Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.

On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.

Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5302

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 118–19
Summary:

Plants arrived.

Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.

Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.

Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.

Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5305

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 121–6
Summary:

Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.

On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.

Bentham and Martin disagreement.

Speculations on New Zealand flora.

Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].

On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 309, 309b
Summary:

Has finished Variation. May insert a chapter on man.

Still puzzled by seeds of Adenanthera.

New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued.

Fritz Müller found six genera of dimorphic plants in one day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5324

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 127–8
Summary:

Analysis of New Zealand flora; proportion of indigenous annuals.

Uniform climates are poor in species.

Evergreen and deciduous vegetation: relationship to flora and fauna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 310, 310b
Summary:

B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?

Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5328

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 129–30
Summary:

Suggests fossil leaves go to Heer.

Agrees with CD on cut pages in books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1103

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
Date:
2 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1145

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
17 February 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.88-89, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1146

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
16 March 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.90-91, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1147

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
19 September 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.92, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1148

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
19 October 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.93, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1178

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
18 November 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.142, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1179

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
26 November 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.143, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1187

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
19 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.154-155, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1188

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
29 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.156-157, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1189

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
26 July 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.158-159, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1190

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
18 August 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.160, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1191

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
18 August 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.161-162, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

This is a second letter sent on the same day by Joseph Hooker to Sir Henry Barkly.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1360

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 July 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.152, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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