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DCP-LETT-11322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [Jan 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 466
Summary:

In London and wishes to meet JDH.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11323

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 101–2
Summary:

Invites CD to Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11356

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 113
Summary:

Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.

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DCP-LETT-11360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 95: 467
Summary:

Supports idea to translate C. K. Sprengel, but opposes publishing it together with H. Müller because this would raise price of Müller’s useful book.

Confirms JDH’s observation that only tip of cabbage radicle shows geotropism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11220

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 20 Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 209.4: 432
Summary:

Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Feb 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 449–50
Summary:

CD solicits JDH’s aid in obtaining Government funds for James Torbitt’s efforts to breed disease resistance in potatoes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 451–2
Summary:

CD again asks JDH to support Torbitt’s project to breed disease-resistant potatoes. He has also sought support of Farrer, Duke of Richmond, and James Caird.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11391

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 103–4
Summary:

Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.

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DCP-LETT-11390

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 or 4 Mar 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 453–4
Summary:

His attempts to obtain a Government grant for Torbitt seem hopeless.

CD is suffering from constant swimming of the head.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11412F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 310)
Summary:

Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11417

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 105–6
Summary:

Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.

Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11431

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 107–8
Summary:

Has been consulting with Mrs Lyell about the possibility of publishing Lyell’s letters. Asks CD’s opinion on the matter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11443

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 469–70
Summary:

CD and Frank think they have proved that function of plant sleep is to protect leaves from injury by chilling radiation. Requests plants for experiment to determine whether underside of leaf is hardier than upper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11452

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 471–2
Summary:

Studying geotropism.

Experiments using exposure to frost to study nyctitropism are difficult to perform because species vary in frost tolerance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11547

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 109–10
Summary:

JDH’s scheme for lowering F.R.S. fees by creating a fund through membership subscription.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11581

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Royal Society Letters, c . 1875 – c . 1905, JDH/2/18: f.36)
Summary:

JDH may put CD’s name down for £200 for the proposed fund.

Does JDH have a plant of Porlieria hygrometrica he could lend to CD?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11583

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 111–12
Summary:

JDH details the subscription fund’s finances.

Has finished lecture for Royal Society on N. American plant distribution.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11588

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 473
Summary:

CD contributes £200 to JDH’s Royal Society fund.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11636

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 114
Summary:

Burdened with Anniversary Address to the Royal Society.

Quips that even Huxley is running out of speeches.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11713

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 474
Summary:

Wants Oxalis specimen named; is fascinated by cotyledonary movements of the genus.

Contributor:
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