From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.15, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 57–9
Summary:
Reports on the 1870 BAAS meeting at Liverpool. Huxley’s address was over the heads of the laymen.
Tyndall’s was eloquent to listen to, disappointing to read.
George Rolleston’s "Rococo" address [Nature 2 (1870): 423–7, 442–6].
Murchison.
Lyell.
Has done an immense lot of work.
Regrets CD has not kept the simple title "Origin of man" [for Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
30 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.128-129, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 60
Summary:
Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 November 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH compliments Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] on his paper on 'Spontaneous Generation & Evolution' & hopes that it is a prelude to further research into the chemistry of vegetation as JDH believes there is no better man to do it. JDH is currently reading John Tyndall's paper 'On the Actions of Rays of High Refrangibility upon Gaseous Matter' in PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON & he is struck by Tyndall's remarks on the decomposition of carbonic acid, by solar rays, in the leaves of plants. JDH says that he had thought about this independently & believes it would make a good research subject. Has heard that Dr P[ercival] Wright it going to Algeria for the winter. JDH hopes that he has left the key to the [Trinity College] Herbarium for them.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
20 November 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.279, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
7 December 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.16, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project