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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 222–3
Summary:

Overjoyed at the way the newspapers have taken up JDH’s case. The memorial has done great good this way, whatever the wretched Government does. It is enough to make one a Tory. JDH has done a service to all men of science by showing governments that they cannot be trampled on.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 225–6
Summary:

CD hopes the Times abstract of minutes of Lords of the Treasury will make JDH’s position more comfortable.

The "wretched Lords" make CD indignant, but "nothing equals Owen’s conduct. – I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last day of my life."

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 227–8
Summary:

Is now at work on Drosera and asks to borrow D. capensis and other species.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.424)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of cheque.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 229–30
Summary:

Is sending Drosera back

and "the curious Kerguelen book".

"Drosera has almost been the death of me."

Hopes the accursed man [Ayrton] does not give JDH any more trouble.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 31–2)
Summary:

Is much vexed about Drosera.

Land-level changes and volcanic activity.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 231–2
Summary:

Condolences on death of JDH’s mother.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 233–4
Summary:

Asks for London address of George King [Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta], so he can ask about worm-castings sent by King from S. India. Has just received a splendid letter from John Scott on worms.

Asks where he can buy Dionaea.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 235–6
Summary:

Asks for address of a Mrs Barber somewhere in South Africa.

JDH’s letter in Nature [6 (1872): 516–17] is excellent, and wonderfully quiet.

Severely criticises Owen’s conduct.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 237–8
Summary:

Dionaea plants have arrived. Just ready to observe some points in their structure.

Has Murray sent Expression book?

JDH’s particulars about Owen, Ayrton and Co. ("a nice firm") amused CD much.

Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Oct 1872
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence Vol. 156, Indian letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1900, f. 1087)
Summary:

Thanks Hooker and Darwin for the money to emigrate to India to work.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 239–42
Summary:

Pros and cons of answering Owen’s letter.

On Artizans’ Dwellings, he approves the object but it is lost money as an investment.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 [Dec 1872]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence vol. 156, Indian Letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1900, f. 1086)
Summary:

JDH Should do as he sees fit about proposing him [John Scott] [for fellowship of the Linnean Society].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 243–7
Summary:

Asks whether his observations on absorptive powers of glandular hairs of plants are new facts.

Asks for a Drosophyllum.

Comments on Francis Galton’s article in Fraser’s Magazine,

Greg’s Enigmas,

and Alphonse de Candolle’s Histoire des sciences.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 248–50
Summary:

Explains why he wants Drosophyllum.

Hopes JDH will be elected President of Royal Society.

Agrees with JDH on Greg’s Enigmas.

Would like Greg to visit Down if JDH comes as CD’s "protector".

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 251–2
Summary:

Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.

Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.

Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.

9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 253–6
Summary:

Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.

Comments on various articles he has read.

Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 257–8
Summary:

Is drawing up the account of his crossing experiments. Requests JDH to add the families after nine genera, the names of which he encloses. Whenever there is no objection he would like to arrange the families in some sort of natural order.

Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 259–60
Summary:

Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.

Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 261–2
Summary:

Wants to discuss raising a testimonial fund for Huxley and whether Huxley would stand this.

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