From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 474
Summary:
Wants Oxalis specimen named; is fascinated by cotyledonary movements of the genus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 475–6
Summary:
Before JDH discusses flora of Canary Islands CD suggests he read F. B. White’s paper [see 11707], which explains stocking of Atlantic island fauna as due to changed currents during [last, or Miocene] northern glacial period.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 477–8
Summary:
Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.
Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 479–80
Summary:
Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
