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DCP-LETT-4529

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11)
Summary:

CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.

JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.

Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.

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DCP-LETT-4692

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4)
Summary:

Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.

Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.

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DCP-LETT-4734

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224
Summary:

Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.

Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.

The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".

Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.

THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.

Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].

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DCP-LETT-5017

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 or 27] Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 65–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156: 1048)
Summary:

Lyell wants to see JDH’s last letter [the part on glacial periods]. Lyell full of concern about astronomical causes of heat and cold on the globe.

Encloses letter from John Scott.

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DCP-LETT-5456

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 151–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 143: 643)
Summary:

More on Naudin’s hybrid; the wonder lessened slightly.

JDH’s view that insular plants [distantly] related to those of continents are common came to him only after the lecture was in print; has not yet thought it out fully.

Moroccan flora may throw some light on Madeira flora.

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DCP-LETT-5539

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125)
Summary:

Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.

Will go to Paris again at end of month.

Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.

Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.

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DCP-LETT-5831

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200)
Summary:

Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.

Candolle’s contribution to botany.

Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.

CD’s answer to Greg was capital.

Comments on Variation.

Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.

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DCP-LETT-6964

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 May 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 46; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 236)
Summary:

Sends enclosure [a letter from Lady Lyell?]. He is choking with vanity.

Is going to send Willy to Mr La Touche in Salop; he brought up young Colenso and Frank Lyell. Some of his friends will think he is sending his son into a nest of young adders!

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DCP-LETT-7272

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 53–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 17a: 117)
Summary:

Sends seeds from R. L. Playfair in Algiers.

F. Delpino writes asking where M. A. Curtis has published physiological observations on Dionaea ["Enumeration of plants growing spontaneously around Wilmington, North Carolina", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (1834–7): 82–140; see Insectivorous plants, p. 301 n.].

Talk with Duke of Argyll on CD’s and Wallace’s views on man.

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DCP-LETT-8036

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 93–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’Correspondence vol. 156, Indian Letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1905, ff. 1066–7)
Summary:

Details of the JDH–Ayrton–Gladstone imbroglio.

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DCP-LETT-8492

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 118–19; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156 f. 1075)
Summary:

Encloses letter and cheque [from John Scott].

Again in thick of Ayrton matter. Tyndall and Huxley have shown themselves equal to the occasion in grasp of subject, tenacity of purpose, independence, and good-will.

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DCP-LETT-9732

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 228–9; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/1/14/f. 54)
Summary:

Encloses a letter [from Huxley about his invitation to lecture at Edinburgh]. Has done his best to dissuade Huxley from accepting the burden.

JDH’s depression in bereavement.

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DCP-LETT-11412F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310)
Summary:

Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.

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DCP-LETT-11581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Royal Society Letters, c . 1875 – c . 1905, JDH/2/18: f.36)
Summary:

JDH may put CD’s name down for £200 for the proposed fund.

Does JDH have a plant of Porlieria hygrometrica he could lend to CD?

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DCP-LETT-12261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 185–6)
Summary:

Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.

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DCP-LETT-12290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 191)
Summary:

Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.

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DCP-LETT-12338

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4)
Summary:

Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.

Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.

Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.

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DCP-LETT-12982

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Jan 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/136/949)
Summary:

Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.

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DCP-LETT-1738

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129)
Summary:

Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.

When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?

Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.

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DCP-LETT-7321F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Sept 1870
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 307)
Summary:

Discusses germination of charlock after a long interval.

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