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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
23 June 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.4, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs William Thiselton-Dyer that he has had a letter from Sir Henry Barkly [Governor of Cape Colony] urging the completion of FLORA CAPENSIS & suggesting that Peter MacOwan, an experienced Cape botanist, be sent to England for a year to accomplish this. JDH passes on MacOwan's feelings on the subject & asks for Thiselton-Dyer's opinion. He also asks if Thiselton-Dyer will be able to describe any families for a flora of India.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
24 June 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.185-188, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 195–6
Summary:

Delighted to hear from Lyell of JDH’s return from successful ascent of the Atlas Mts.

Fears JDH found no Madeira or Canary types, but CD is pleased at his moraine discovery.

Thinks Lyell’s health is serious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
30 June 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.280, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 69–70, DAR 205.2 (Letters): 240
Summary:

Plans to write an account of his trip to Morocco and, with John Ball, the botanical geography, for Linnean Society.

Results mainly negative; the Atlas exhibits "the dying out of European flora".

Only two or three beetles above 8000ft.

Disappointed that Canary Island species are absent from Atlas mountains; but an ocean current along Moroccan coast should help migration of Spanish, Portuguese, and Moroccan seeds to Canaries and Madeira.

Describes Lyell’s poor physical condition. Asks CD for his observations of symptoms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 197–8
Summary:

Lady Lyell’s anxiety over Lyell’s health.

Preparing new edition of Origin.

Asks whether anything was observed [in Morocco] on expressions.

Did JDH notice whether pollen-masses in Ophrys apifera in N. Africa fall on the stigma, as in England?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 71–2
Summary:

He did observe that Ophrys apifera fertilised itself as CD described and O. lutea as well.

Moroccans are too civilised, taciturn, and unfriendly to make anything of them for expressions of emotions.

Moraines and negative results on Atlas alpine flora are the only points of the journey worth much.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
7 July 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.19, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 61–2
Summary:

Has given CD’s name to a species of Abutilon found by Fritz Müller.

Pleased at Henrietta [Darwin]’s engagement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 July [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 199–200
Summary:

Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.

Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.

Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.

Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 264
Summary:

Identifies Henslow’s mouse that used tail as prehensile climbing organ as Mus messorius.

Has not seen the Quarterly Review.

Inquires after Lyell’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 July [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 201
Summary:

Thanks for information about Henslow’s mouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 73–77
Summary:

Lengthy discussion of William Thomson’s address [BAAS, Edinburgh 1871].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Aug [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 202–3
Summary:

Has read Thomson’s address with "greatest interest", but JDH has said exactly what he [CD] thinks of it.

Herschel’s was a good sneer. It made him add the Raphael Madonna simile in Descent [2: 142].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 78–79
Summary:

Differences in violet and honeysuckle cases.

Huxley basted Thomson awfully in Section D [of BAAS].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
15 August 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.3, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 September 1871
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 September 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.171, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 September 1871
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 83–84
Summary:

His mother very ill.

Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.

Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.

Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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