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From:
Hooker, J. D.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
22 November 1878
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1909
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Hooker, J. D.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
14 October 1879
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1911
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 386–7
Summary:
Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 30–2
Summary:
Thiselton-Dyer’s appointment has come.
Wants to discuss insectivorous plants and get some experiments going.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 388
Summary:
Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 389
Summary:
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 33–4
Summary:
His appreciation of Insectivorous plants, especially Utricularia section.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 1d
Summary:
JDH will arrive by train on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 July 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 35
Summary:
Will be delayed on Saturday because of unveiling of a monument to Sir J. Franklin at Westminster Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 36–7
Summary:
JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 390–1
Summary:
Shares Hooker’s feelings about Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox.
Bored with preparing new editions.
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:
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
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
- Hooker, J. D.
- Darwin, C. R.337
- Gray, Asa73
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner66
- Barkly, Henry27
- Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine), Lady Hyacinth25
- Bolus, Henry23
- Wallace, Alfred Russel17
- Duthie, John Firminger16
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph14
- Bentham, George13
- Grant Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone8
- Hooker (nee Henslow), Frances Harriet8
- Munro, General William5
- unknown addressee4
- Barkly (nee Pratt), Lady Anne Maria3
- Busk, George3
- Darwin, Emma3
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton3
- Smith, William Henry3
- Wedgwood, Emma3
- [Gray, Asa]3
- Babington, Professor Charles Cardale2
- Cunningham, Robert Oliver2
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Evans, Frederick John Owen2
- Feilden, Colonel Henry Wemyss2
- La Touche, Reverend James Digues de2
- Spottiswoode, William2
- Tolmie, William Fraser2
- Baker, John Gilbert1
- Bebb, Mr Michael Schuck1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Darwin, William Erasmus1
- Drummond-Hay, John Hay1
- Elliot, Walter1
- Espeut, William Bancroft1
- Henslow, F. H.1
- Hodgson (nee Townshend), Susan1
- Hooker (nee Turner), Lady Maria1
- Hooker, F. H.1
- Jenyns, G. L.1
- Lingen, Baron Ralph Robert Wheeler1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Nares, George Strong1
- Northcote, Earl Stafford Henry1
- Pasteur, Louis1
- Rama V (King of Siam [Thailand]), King of Siam (Thailand) Chulalongkorn1
- Scott, John1
- Scott, Robert Henry1
- Smith, Mrs Susan Emma1
- Smith, William Henry?1
- Symonds (nee Kent), Mrs Hyacinth Catherine1
- Thomson, Charles Wyville1
- Trail, James William Helenus1
- Whitworth, Joseph1
- Williamson, Alexander William1
- [Darwin, Charles Robert]1
- [Hart, Henry Chichester]1
- [Smith, William Henry]1