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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.
Wants Monochaetum flowers for examination as he has forgotten the structure and cannot publish until he has repeated his observations and experiments.
Thanks for Monochaetum flowers; his old notes have now become intelligible.
About Francis Darwin’s application for election to [Royal] Society.
Wants Trifolium seed.
Has been rereading WTT-D’s letters on "bloom".
Wants a Clematis identified. Has been observing how earthworms drag down its petioles.
Thanks for WTT-D’s attempts to get the Trifolium seeds.
Progress of his and Frank Darwin’s work; "all natural science seems now to depend on section-cutting".
Would be grateful for some Euphorbia species for examination of the roots. "The subject is by no means worth all the labour I am bestowing on it, but I cannot bear to be beaten."
Magnificent supply of Euphorbiae arrived safely.
The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.
Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.
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JDH sends birthday wishes to Brian Houghton Hodgson, who is his only remaining 'Indian Chum' now that Colvile is dead. JDH reports on the illnesses of [Sir Wiliam Turner] Thiselton-Dyer. JDH & his wife Hyacinth plan to go away with the Grays at the end of Feb. Gives his opinion of his father in law, [Reverend William Samuel] Symonds' novel: MALVERN CHASE, & also of [John Keat's] Endymion.
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JDH writes that he is sending Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] the list of herbarium visitors for the RBG Kew annual report, he was not sure whether to include [George] Bentham's name. He notes that the list shows a 'wonderful amount of botanical query & activity'. JDH is now preparing the list of additions to the herbarium, including the extensive list of [Georg Wilhelm Heinrich] Schimper & General William Munro's donated herbaria. JDH discusses the benefits of WTTD going to Court, both for him personally & for the office of Assistant Director of RBG Kew. JDH mentions that he likes the hotel Romain, where he is staying in Paris. He & his party plan to dine at Lavalier's & Capones[?] in Paris before travelling south.