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DCP-LETT-3098

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 91
Summary:

Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.

CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.

Opinion of Owen.

Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3125

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 98
Summary:

Offers to go to Henslow despite his own poor health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 99
Summary:

Henslow’s long suffering.

Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1443

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
17?-5-1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.240, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Joseph Hooker writes to inform Miles Berkeley that John Steven Henslow had died the previous day at 4am.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 100
Summary:

Henslow’s death.

What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

Beaton not to be trusted.

CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1112

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.17-18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24–5 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 101
Summary:

CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 102
Summary:

Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1114

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
2 June 1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.19-21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3190

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 103
Summary:

CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.

William Darwin’s partnership in bank.

Work: variation and orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 84
Summary:

Many mutual acquaintances are ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10855

From:
Sir Joseph D. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.206
Summary:

Father is unable to write so he has to thank him for his letter and the offer of Leucadendron seeds. Will try some experiments with them. Comments on some of C. R. Darwin's theories. Has he tried the Peruvian potato experiment? Does not remember a Camellia fruiting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 104
Summary:

Trip to Torquay.

Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1115

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
7 July 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.22-24, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 105
Summary:

Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.

On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 106
Summary:

Orchids from Kew.

JDH’s income problems.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3220

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 107
Summary:

On orchids supplied by Kew; homologies of pollen and rostellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 July – 10 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 109
Summary:

Puzzled by function of orchids’ rostellum.

Orchids’ pollen concentrated in two pollinia; hence one flower can fertilise only two others. This may explain precision of orchid pollination mechanisms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3226

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: : 108
Summary:

Has found function of rostellum: modified stigma guarantees attachment of pollinia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3231

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 110
Summary:

Personal regards.

William Darwin will make a botanist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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