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DCP-LETT-10197

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 38–9
Summary:

JDH shares CD’s annoyance with R. L. Tait.

Has identified awned carpels for CD.

Sports of Paritium.

Suggests extending Francis’ experiments with glycerine on twisted seeds, to Mimosa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10200

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 394–6
Summary:

Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.

Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10205

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 40–1
Summary:

Gives directions for growing plants he has sent and corrects CD’s taxonomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10209

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 397–8
Summary:

Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10215

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 42–3
Summary:

Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10275

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 44
Summary:

JDH concerned about preparations for [his address at] Royal Society [anniversary] meeting [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 72–94].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10283

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 399–400
Summary:

Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10286

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 45–8
Summary:

E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-001651

From:
Frederick John Owen Evans
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 December 1875
Source of text:
MM/21/96, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-10293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Pushkin House, St Petersburg: Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (Constantin Romanov, collection of O. A. Novikov: ПД 1975 ф.137 оп 1, no. 36)
Summary:

Asks JDH to try to come to luncheon if he is in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 401–2
Summary:

CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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