Search: letter in document-type 
1870-1879::1873 in date 
Hooker, J. D. in author 
Sorted by:

Showing 4157 of 57 items

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 169–70
Summary:

Mimosa prostrata, described by John Lindley as M. marginata, native of Brazil.

Who supplies CD with distilled water and chemicals?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
14 October 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.210-212, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 171–2
Summary:

Describes work on Nepenthes – more difficult than Drosera.

Has written to Dublin for a Drosophyllum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
23 October 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.32, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
24 October 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.213-215, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 175
Summary:

Describes his experiments on Nepenthes; finds action analogous to that in Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 October 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 6, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 176–7
Summary:

Sends plant specimens.

He and Thiselton-Dyer, working on with Nepenthes, have independently found the spiral vessels going to the gland. CD’s view that the glands are secretory organs is suggestive. When Nepenthes is as much done as CD wants,

he will turn to Cephalotus and Sarracenia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 178–80, DAR 209.12: 3
Summary:

Sends leaves and names by post.

Is writing everywhere for Drosophyllum.

Is deeply interested in Desmodium.

Had no intention of publishing on Nepenthes, the experiments were solely for CD’s "eating". Will continue with egg and raw meat experiments. Asks for advice on how to prove fluid is secreted by the glands.

Searles Wood’s letter is confused and would deny atavism if his principles were accepted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 181
Summary:

Has time only to thank CD for the invaluable hints.

Encloses Lathyrus nissolia seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 184–5
Summary:

Has had a week’s cessation of Nepenthes work.

Had to get out a paper for the Linnean Society on Thursday.

Has tried Mimosa albida in hothouse and found it wonderfully sensitive.

A military report from India praises his travel book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 November 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 7, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [Nov 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 133-4
Summary:

Is sending specimens of Eucalyptus;

goes tomorrow to receive LL.D. [Glasgow].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 183, 186
Summary:

He has noticed that Mimosa albida leaves closed only partially. It can be objected to CD’s theory that, if true, all, or at least more, species would close their leaves on application of water, unless he can show special injury done to M. albida by water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
8 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.33, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
13 December 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.34-35, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 December 1873
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 8, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project