From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 135
Summary:
Rudimentary ovules of Acropera.
High opinion of Bates.
Orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 136, 129c
Summary:
Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 137
Summary:
Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.
CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.
Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 138
Summary:
Seeks information on heating hothouses night and day.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 139
Summary:
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 1, 2a–c
Summary:
Asks CD whether he hears from Asa Gray. JDH’s opinion of the crisis [Trent case, Nov 1861] and the American Civil War.
Julius von Haast alludes to glacial drift in Middle Island of New Zealand.
Backwardness of JDH’s son, Willy.
Encloses a reference from Daniel Oliver which may be useful.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Dec] 1861 or [6 Jan] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 3–4
Summary:
Glad CD has given up on Acropera ovules.
Doubts phanerogams less different in extreme forms [than Crustacea].
No systematic parallelism between plants and animals.
Offers list of Arctic plants with their colours. Asks CD whether it is useful to add colour to [descriptions of] plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 and 31 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 115: 83a
Summary:
Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
