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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 74–6
Summary:

JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Jan [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 430–1
Summary:

CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.

Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.

Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.

CD working on plant dimorphism.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 77–9
Summary:

JDH recounts discussion at Royal Society over Günther’s paper on distribution and affinities of gigantic tortoises ["Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises, Parts III and IV", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 25 (1876–7): 506–7]. Huxley suggests they are Miocene relics.

Royal Society will publish Frank’s Dipsacus paper [but see 10971 and 11073].

Thiselton-Dyer will review Cross and self-fertilisation.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 95: 432–3
Summary:

CD thinks A. Günther’s tortoises are relics of closely allied forms, once widely distributed. Expressed this view to AG a few months ago. Cannot explain their restriction to volcanic islands.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Mar 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 93–4
Summary:

JDH reports on Frank’s reading of his Dipsacus paper at the Royal Society. Huxley slept through much of it, but JDH is well pleased with it.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Mar [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 435–6
Summary:

CD counters Thiselton-Dyer’s objection to protoplasmic filaments of Dipsacus protruding beyond cell-wall, as Frank’s paper claims, by citing white "blood cells passing through vessels".

Has received Moseley’s collection of photographs.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 80–1
Summary:

Oliver cannot, as CD has requested, hunt for trimorphic flowers in the Herbarium’s collection of Oxalis specimens. He would help Frank if he comes.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Mar [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 437–8
Summary:

CD apologises for his burdensome request of Oliver.

Criticises JDH’s notice on Forsythia, which JDH said was dioecious. Forsythia sent to CD from Kew was heterostylous.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Apr [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 439
Summary:

CD regrets not being able to see JDH.

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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.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 82–3
Summary:

JDH’s view of Thiselton-Dyer’s engagement to his daughter, Harriet.

JDH is pleased to help with "bloom" questions.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 84–5
Summary:

Responding to CD’s request for assistance with his study of "bloom", JDH sends seeds, a list of available plants, and a list of English wild plants with "bloom".

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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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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 86–7
Summary:

JDH has to entertain the Emperor of Brazil [Pedro II], who wants to meet CD.

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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.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 88–9
Summary:

JDH finds the Emperor, once an energetic man, all used up.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 90–1
Summary:

JDH recounts circumstances of his receiving Star of India (K.C.S.I.).

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 92
Summary:

Emperor of Brazil continues to press JDH for a meeting with CD.

JDH’s daughter, Harriet, marries W. T. Thiselton-Dyer.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 104: 95–6
Summary:

JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.

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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.

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