From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.28, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.204-206, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 149–50
Summary:
Delighted with John Traherne Moggridge’s book [Harvesting ants (1873)].
Has suggested he plant seeds in various receptacles. Only two explanations for failure of seeds to germinate [in ants’ nests]: lack of circulating air or formic acid.
Has undertaken a botany primer for Macmillan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Spottiswoode
Date:
26 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.96, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project