From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21 July 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.165 + 163, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 July 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.166-167, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 August 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.168, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 August 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.169, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.170, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker 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
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21?-6-1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.172, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence Series)
Summary:
Asks GB to support the election of CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, to the Athenaeum Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree-Dyer, (1830–1884) 719)
Summary:
Thanks GB for his "Report on [the recent progress and present state of] systematic botany" [Rep. BAAS (1874): 27–54] and for the way in which he refers to CD’s book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
8 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 717)
Summary:
Asks GB to send him flowers of the two forms of Boronia pinnata, as he is republishing his papers on dimorphic plants [Forms of flowers].
Sends copy of Cross and self-fertilisation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 166
Summary:
Sends specimens of Boronia.
Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 Dec 1876
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 720)
Summary:
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 167
Summary:
Believes Aegiphila to be exclusively American.
Contrasts fertilisation of Australian Acacia with Brazilian Mimosa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 168
Summary:
Thanks CD for Forms of flowers. Comments on the chapter on cleistogamic flowers; offers some corrections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
12 July 1877
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–84, GEB/1/3: f. 721)
Summary:
Thanks GB for corrections to chapter on cleistogamic flowers [Forms of flowers].
Asks for his opinion on "bloom"-producing plants in different climates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 169
Summary:
Answers CD’s query on "bloom".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 August 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.173, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 170
Summary:
CD’s election to the French Academy delights GB. Nationalistic prejudices have at last been overcome; congratulates him on what is now universal adoption of his views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 718)
Summary:
GB’s note has given him more pleasure than his election to the French Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.175, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project