From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.28, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.204-206, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 149–50
Summary:
Delighted with John Traherne Moggridge’s book [Harvesting ants (1873)].
Has suggested he plant seeds in various receptacles. Only two explanations for failure of seeds to germinate [in ants’ nests]: lack of circulating air or formic acid.
Has undertaken a botany primer for Macmillan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Spottiswoode
Date:
26 February 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.96, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project