From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 September 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.136, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 112
Summary:
After much crossing, has worked out meaning of dimorphism in Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 113
Summary:
CD’s orchid paper is to become orchid book [Orchids].
Primula paper is done [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 114
Summary:
Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.
Orchids.
Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 98
Summary:
List of Australian plants that have become naturalised in the Nilgiris [India] and are turning out the native trees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 115, DAR 115: 76
Summary:
Query on orchid homology.
Critical of F. A. Bauer on orchids [Illustrations of orchidaceous plants (1830–8)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6–7 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 116
Summary:
Orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
7 October 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.28-29, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 117
Summary:
Orchid anatomy: movement in Mormodes column.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 118
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Catasetum exemplifies slight modification of structure leading to new structure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 119
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Wind as agent of self-fertilisation in orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 120
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Movements of labellum.
Repeating Gärtner’s experiment with Verbascum varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 121, 126a, 124a
Summary:
JDH’s work on Gnetum: a living fossil.
Orchid anatomy.
Encloses lists of orchids and other specimens he would be interested in seeing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 122
Summary:
Acropera anatomy puzzling. Malaxis anatomy deciphered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 123
Summary:
Orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 124
Summary:
Orchid homologies.
Sensitive responses in Catasetum.
Acropera becoming clear.
T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 77
Summary:
Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 127
Summary:
Rostellum of Masdevallia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
6 November 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.30-31, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 125
Summary:
JDH’s Fernando Po case.
Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
