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JHC258

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
7 February 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.96, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH sends birthday wishes to Brian Houghton Hodgson, who is his only remaining 'Indian Chum' now that Colvile is dead. JDH reports on the illnesses of [Sir Wiliam Turner] Thiselton-Dyer. JDH & his wife Hyacinth plan to go away with the Grays at the end of Feb. Gives his opinion of his father in law, [Reverend William Samuel] Symonds' novel: MALVERN CHASE, & also of [John Keat's] Endymion.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1744

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
7 February 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12498

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 138–9
Summary:

The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].

Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5301

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 February 1881
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 509-12
Summary:

Discusses ARW's view on European plants and effects of glaciers on Alpine plants.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13067

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Feb 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 509–12
Summary:

Island life continues to stimulate: Wallace ignores effects of glaciers on alpine flora and generally exaggerates those of débâcles and wind dispersal. CD encourages JDH to prepare a geographical address including history of geographical distribution.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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