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DCP-LETT-13420

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 538–41
Summary:

Visiting his son Horace.

Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.

Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?

Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].

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DCP-LETT-13424

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 164–5
Summary:

Pleasure in reading Earthworms.

Buying land to build a cottage.

Finishing palms for Genera plantarum after three years’ work.

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DCP-LETT-13435

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 170–1
Summary:

On plants CD requested.

Frank should work on Dischidia.

Work on palms.

Overloaded with reading.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 542–3
Summary:

Profuse thanks for plants.

Specifies which euphorbs he wants. Euphorbs’ alternate rows of ammonium carbonate reactive/non-reactive cells are worth more study.

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