From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 January 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 57, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 165: 201
Summary:
Sends some cotton seeds for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 January 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 58, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Jan 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (126)
Summary:
Describes the germination and early growth of Megarrhiza about which AG has been misinformed. The tubular petioles act functionally like a root.
Ipomoea did not germinate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Jan [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (127)
Summary:
Germination of Delphinium and Megarrhiza.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 January 1880
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.68-69, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Peabody & Co of the United States of America have sent JDH some money, an unexpected remittance of funds deposited with them for his trip in America. JDH tells Asa Gray he is particularly grateful for it as he is trying to raise £800 to set up his son Charles Paget Hooker as a partner in a medical practice in Norfolk. The practice in Coltishall is the same one previously owned by JDH's brother in law, Thomas Evans Lombe, & by a great uncle of JDH's in the previous century. Mentions Gray's correspondence with Henslow. RBG Kew is getting 36 tons of Indian wood & other 'vegetable produce' from the India Store Department. The material is to be accommodated by the RBG Kew museums, necessitating a complete rearrangement, & Sargent would also like a share. Over the last 30 years there has been over collecting of all sorts of things in India due to bad management by the India Museum authorities. He gives the example of Cashmere shawls being left unpacked to ruin in cases. JDH is concerned about the deteriorating production quality of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE which is not doing justice to the work of the new artist, Mr Barnard. It is published by Reeve & Co who have a bad reputation amongst the trade & craftsmen, e.g. lithographers & printers, for being miserly. Spencer Moore has been dismissed from the RBG Kew herbarium for 'gross insubordination & insolence', JDH calls him 'a lunatic'. Baker is going to work on the Agaves & Fourcroyas. [James Edward Tierney] Aitchison has a lot of news & good things from Afghanistan.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 201
Summary:
Germination of Megarrhiza. AG’s observations at variance with CD’s.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (128)
Summary:
Seed germination.
Strange that his plants [of Megarrhiza] behaved differently from AG’s [see 12455].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 202
Summary:
Sends seeds of Megarrhiza and gives details of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 March 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 59, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (Walter Deane Autograph Collection)
Summary:
Asks AG to confirm whether Ipomoea leptophylla "makes a great tuber as big as a mangel-wurzel".
Petioles of Cotyledons behave partly like those of Megarrhiza.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Mar [1880]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130)
Summary:
Thanks for Megarrhiza seeds and information. Has been greatly interested by Megarrhiza germination.
Samuel Butler has attacked CD over Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Apr 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 203
Summary:
Germination and root of Ipomoea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 204–6
Summary:
Encloses a letter from Volney Rattan of California.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Apr 1880
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:
Thanks for the letter from Volney Rattan [see 12553].
Discusses protective adaptation of seedlings from frost.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
3?-5-1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 60, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1880
Source of text:
DAR 186: 52
Summary:
Confirmation of CD’s idea: AG planted seeds Ipomœa pandurata. One seed has come up and its germination is same as of I. leptophylla.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 53
Summary:
Information about Ipomœa jalapa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 August 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 61, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 18[80]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 166
Summary:
Leaves Kew the next day for three or four months of travel.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
