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DCP-LETT-4412

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20–]22 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 221a–c
Summary:

Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.

Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.

Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?

Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4530

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.88
Summary:

Richard Hodgson claims to have invented the diagonal solar eyepiece despite JH's description of it in Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4413

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 186–7
Summary:

Sends a Corydalis.

Hermann Crüger’s paper [see 4394] splendid, but he has made a mess of propagating Cinchona in Trinidad.

JDH’s opinion of Germans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4432

From:
James Dickson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 February 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7728

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1864]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 13/1.6; Reel 10
Summary:

Send JH's manuscript immediately, or JS must postpone JH's article for next issue. Received Henry Draper's article on 'Silverised Glass Telescopes & Celestial Photo[graphy]' mentioning JH and 'Miss Herschel.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC235

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
20 February 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.64, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks his Uncle, Reverend John Gunn, for a copy of his work: GEOLOGY OF NORFOLK. JDH sends Gunn Sir Edward Frankland's hypothesis on the glacial epoch. [Leonard] Horner is 80 & dying. JDH saw [Charles] Lyell, who was in shock about the bone caves in Borneo. Mentions subscriptions in support of Bishop [John William] Colenso. JDH's Father William Jackson Hooker is well. JDH is going to [Sir Joseph] Prestwitch's lecture on flint implements. Asks when Gunn is coming to London, suggests he attends upcoming Royal Society parties. Discusses: latest additions to his own & Francis 'Frank' Darwin's collections of Wedgewood pottery; a medallion of William Gifford 'Giffy' Palgrave made by [Thomas] Woolner; & [Sir Roderick Impey] Murchison's butter boats.

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Hooker Project
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