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DCP-LETT-6487

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 102–4
Summary:

Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.

No work exists on various biological points in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6511

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 247; Linnean Society of London MS. SP 56
Summary:

T. H. Farrer’s paper is capital.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 105–7
Summary:

Is working on new edition of Origin [5th (1869)].

Asks JDH’s assistance on a problem posed by Nägeli on morphological differences that are of no utility to plants and hence could not be selected. CD wants to show that these differences do not support the idea of progressive development as Nägeli suggests.

Owen pitches into CD and Lyell in third volume of Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 108—9
Summary:

JDH’s letter invaluable for an answer to Nägeli’s essay [Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art (1865)].

Has gone through his index to Gardeners’ Chronicle but finds little of use to JDH for his Flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1531

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
30 December 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.8-9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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