From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 70
Summary:
Observations on barnacles.
Would like to meet JDH in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 392–3
Summary:
R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.
Certificate for G. J. Romanes.
Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 38–9
Summary:
JDH shares CD’s annoyance with R. L. Tait.
Has identified awned carpels for CD.
Sports of Paritium.
Suggests extending Francis’ experiments with glycerine on twisted seeds, to Mimosa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 394–6
Summary:
Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 40–1
Summary:
Gives directions for growing plants he has sent and corrects CD’s taxonomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 397–8
Summary:
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 42–3
Summary:
Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 71
Summary:
Will JDH be in London?
Cirripede observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 72
Summary:
Proposes to visit Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 73
Summary:
Will come to Kew on Friday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 74
Summary:
CD’s visit to Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 44
Summary:
JDH concerned about preparations for [his address at] Royal Society [anniversary] meeting [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 72–94].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 49–50
Summary:
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 399–400
Summary:
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 45–8
Summary:
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 401–2
Summary:
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 75
Summary:
Has read JDH’s paper ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 116–233] and thinks it the best essay on geographical distribution he has ever met with. Comments on the paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 77–8
Summary:
Thanks for reading paper. Accepts CD’s criticisms; discussion of some points.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 76
Summary:
Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.
Thanks for the corallines.
Mention of JDH’s capital speech.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 77
Summary:
Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.
Contributor:
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