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JHC159

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[Asa Gray]
Date:
-8-1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.45, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

[Letter appears to be incomplete as it bears no formal salutation, & the only date given has been added in pencil in a hand not that of the original author.] In the letter JDH writes to [Asa Gray] informing him that he is going to Belfast for the British Association. He will 'begin' at the Royal Society in November. Explains why he has refused Knight Commandership of St Michael & St George. As President of the Royal Society he feels he will inevitably be offered Knight Commandership of the Order of the Bath & will be obliged to accept even though he & his wife, Hyacinth Hooker, do not like such titles. In a post script he adds that Baker has Gay's plants ready for Gray & Mrs [Elizabeth] Lombe is unwell.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1217

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
5 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.232-234, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1483

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
12 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.289, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1218

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
15 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.235-236, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9602

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 214–18
Summary:

Describes his work on Nepenthes.

Cephalotus is a beast.

His address is a history of Dionaea, Sarracenia, and Drosera.

Thiselton-Dyer has helped enormously except with the observations; but his health is so poor that JDH thinks he is "evidently cut out for a Literate not a working botanist".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9604

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 332–3
Summary:

It is splendid how Nepenthes is behaving. Drosera and Dionaea are insignificant by comparison.

Takes rather a malicious pleasure in JDH’s failure with Cephalotus as a match to his with Utricularia.

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DCP-LETT-9610

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 219–20
Summary:

Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.

Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.

Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/6/3 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 40)
Summary:

Thanks JDH for his "quite admirable" address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874) pt 2: 102–16]. Suggests revisions.

CD thinks he is "now on right track about Utricularia" after wasting several weeks "in fruitless trials and observations".

Mrs Barber’s paper is very curious and ought to be published.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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