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DCP-LETT-4825

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 267
Summary:

Feels a little better, but sickness continues.

Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].

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DCP-LETT-4826

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 20–1
Summary:

On FitzRoy’s suicide.

The Lyell–Ramsay disagreement [on formation of lakes?].

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DCP-LETT-4827

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 May [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 268a–b
Summary:

On FitzRoy’s life and character.

Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.

Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.

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DCP-LETT-4836

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 22–3
Summary:

All overworked at Kew.

Burchell collections enormous.

Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.

Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],

disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].

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DCP-LETT-4844F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 May 1865]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/14 f.323); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 113/3650–3, 3813–20, 3821–4)
Summary:

Emcloses copies of correspondence concerning his dispute with John Lubbock.

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