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DCP-LETT-4401

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201
Summary:

John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.

Himalayan pine in Macedonia.

JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.

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DCP-LETT-4403

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 219
Summary:

Compares Clematis and Tropaeolum with respect to touch response. Tropaeolum shows a momentary response and quick recovery. Clematis takes hours to respond, and shows no recovery.

CD can show the gradations between leaves and tendrils, but how a branch passes into a tendril utterly puzzles him.

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DCP-LETT-4399

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 182
Summary:

Bentham proposes John Scott be made an associate of the Linnean Society.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4406

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 220
Summary:

John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4408

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 183–5
Summary:

CD’s climbing plant experiments make it impossible to deny nerve force in plants.

Has discussed Frankland’s new glacial theory with Lyell.

Bishop Colenso’s trial.

Possibility of Scott’s coming to Kew as a curator.

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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?

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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.

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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.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4414

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 [Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 222
Summary:

Asks for a Smilax to study movement.

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