From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 282, 282b
Summary:
Extensive discussion of Pangenesis in reply to JDH’s comments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 286
Summary:
Queries for John Smith [Kew curator] on crossing a cucumber variety.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 69–70
Summary:
Reference to description of Begonia phyllomaniaca.
Thanks for the explicit account of Pangenesis. Thinks he now follows CD’s ideas but Pangenesis is very difficult and speculative.
Oliver has lost his little girl.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 284
Summary:
Sad about Oliver’s loss.
JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].
Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 283
Summary:
Asks how many plants are proper to New Zealand for new edition [4th] of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
20 April 1866
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.128, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 285
Summary:
Thanks for facts about New Zealand flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
25 April 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.117, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 287
Summary:
Needs Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris 7 (1830).
Asks that Oliver provide a reference for microscopical appearance and structure of a bud.
Was very well on first part of London visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 60
Summary:
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
