From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Sept 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 178
Summary:
Is going to Norwich again on account of his mother’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Sept 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 179
Summary:
Would be delighted to see CD at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 180–1
Summary:
Must cut short visit to Down because of domestic problems.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191
Summary:
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 186
Summary:
Hopes to get afternoon train from Victoria.
Woolner comes on Sunday morning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Dec 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 197
Summary:
Left his box of plants in dog-cart [on his visit to Down].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
