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From:
George Leonard Jenyns
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker; Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
[c. 19 Apr 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 142
Summary:

Recipient is to stay with CD;

sender relates some observations of dogs and birds, to be passed on to CD.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 April 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 263–4
Summary:

Thanks for Dionaea.

George Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1873): viii–xxix]. Admires it greatly.

CD’s recent work leads him to a different theory [from GB’s] on the separation of the sexes of plants.

Huxley has been at Down working with CD on Drosera – very helpful.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 265–6
Summary:

Agrees with JDH on G. J. Allman’s work. Approves of JDH’s text proposing GJA for Royal Medal.

Will be proud to see General Richard Strachey at Down – a truly great man.

Specimens of Drosera are waiting to be examined.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 July [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 267
Summary:

Has three common garden plants of which he needs to know correct names; will send specimens as soon as he hears JDH is back.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 268–9
Summary:

Starts tomorrow for visit to Farrer and Effie [Euphemia Farrer, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood]. Has not done such a feat [i.e., staying as a guest of someone outside the immediate family?] for 25 years.

Has been half killing himself with Drosera.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 270–1
Summary:

Asks JDH why so many plants are protected by a thin layer of waxy matter or with fine hairs.

Wrote to John Smith for a plant of Oxalis sensitiva, but it has not acted well.

Rejoices over Ayrton’s retirement. Hopes W. P. Adam, his successor, is a good sort of man.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 272–3
Summary:

Asks JDH to inquire of gardeners at Kew what they think about injury to plants from watering during sunshine. Wishes to experiment. He is already convinced that drops of water do not act as burning lenses.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 274–6
Summary:

Thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for useful information.

Is surprised Mimosa albida is not sensitive to water. Asks that they try again, or lend it to him.

Remembers a walk in Brazil in great bed of Mimosa.

After JDH left, CD was very bad, with much loss of memory and severe shocks continually passing through his brain.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 277–9
Summary:

Obliged for information on Mimosa albida; if a vigorous plant behaves as JDH says, CD’s notions are all knocked on the head.

Anxious to read Tyndall’s answer to Tait [Nature 8 (1873): 399].

Drosera story too long for his strength. Essentially the leaves act just like stomach of an animal.

Burdon Sanderson will give some grand facts at BAAS about Dionaea.

Offers to help JDH with Nepenthes experiments. Finds experimental work always takes twice as much time as anticipated.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 95: 280–1
Summary:

Had read Tyndall’s letter [Nature 8 (1873): 399] – awfully savage, but certainly a great mistake to print it.

Thinks JDH will think better of Clerk Maxwell’s paper after he reads it.

Asks whether JDH could find out for him the temperature of rain in very hot countries.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 October 1873
Source of text:
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.3a)
Summary:

Hopes to get another species of Desmodium from Mr Rollisson.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 20 Oct 1873?]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.39b)
Summary:

Lists plants in which he is interested, including Neptunia and Mimosa species.

Do any strictly tropical plants have glaucous leaves?

Asks for observations on irritable plants.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 282–3
Summary:

Neptunia is evidently a hopeless case.

Good news that fluid of Nepenthes is acid.

No discovery ever gave him more pleasure than proving a true act of digestion in Drosera.

Has become profoundly interested in Desmodium. Asks whether Frank [Darwin] can look over the whole dried collection of the genus.

Has JDH any seed of Lathyrus nissolia?

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 25 Oct 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 151: 330
Summary:

Suggests experiments to try [with Nepenthes].

Asks JDH to test whether cabbage seeds and peas exposed to the ferment germinate.

Cancel: same as 9523.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 284–5
Summary:

Extremely glad to hear of the aggregation in Nepenthes glands. Advises on experimenting with cubes of albumen – gives sizes, also suggests cubes of roast meat. Thanks for analyses of secretion of Nepenthes.

Asks for cutting of Acacia farnesiana.

Longs to examine a species of Desmodium with three leaflets. Has asked Frank [Darwin] to look for species of Desmodium with tendrils.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 286–9
Summary:

Thanks for leaves. His notes on them will be of greatest service.

He cannot distinguish some Eucalypti from Acacia. Sends specimens, with numbers, for JDH to name.

Acacia farnesiana branches arrived withered, but saw enough to make him wish to examine the plant.

Has thought of some troublesome experiments for Drosophyllum.

Encloses remarks [missing] by Searles Wood, with which CD disagrees, about a new and strongly marked variety transmitting its characters.

The competition of better adapted forms seems to CD a sufficient explanation [for extinction].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Oct 1873
Source of text:
DAR 95: 300–3
Summary:

On Nepenthes.

Asks JDH, if he publishes, to mention CD’s work on digestive powers of Drosera so that charges of plagiarism will not be made against CD later when he publishes.

Describes at length his observations on the movements of Desmodium.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Nov [1873]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 ff. 2–3 and 39a)
Summary:

Discusses experiments and observations on pitchers [of Nepenthes]. Suggests procedures for JDH to follow.

Any plant of any family with a terminal or with any lateral leaflets greatly reduced would be interesting to CD for studying spontaneous movements.

Has not received Eucalyptus or Acacia plants from Rollisson.

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