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JHC647

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 January 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 29, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 and 22 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127)
Summary:

Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].

Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.

Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.

Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?

Observations on heliotropism.

Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC648

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 January 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 30, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11364

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (129)
Summary:

Heterostyly in Linum perenne. Believes the American form may be a distinct species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC171

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 February 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.62-63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Asa Gray that he has resigned as President of the Royal Society. JDH believes [William] Spottiswoode, mathematician & engineer, will be his successor. He explains why he is glad that it will not be [George] Stokes. He hopes that John Evans will be elected treasurer. George Engelmann has written to JDH about his Abies & about Juniperus. JDH disagree with Engelmann that the Sierra Nevada juniper is the same as Juniperus occidentalis of Colorado, he explains in detail the different characteristics & habit of each species including a small sketch of the roots. JDH congratulates Gray on his hypothesis regarding distribution of North American Flora, which ties in well with a lecture JDH is giving on the subject at the Royal Institution. His theme will be meridional distribution & he will compare the effect of the Alps with the American mountains. JDH credits the Mediterranean with less importance as a barrier to another Pliocene than Gray does. JDH has been comparing the flora of the Eastern United States with that of California & is amazed at the differences e.g. in order Caryophyllea. In his lecture JDH will cover Gray's researches on the Japan Flora, his own on Arctic flora, their shared travels in America & subsequent private work. JDH is surprised by the number of Asian types in the flora of West America not present in East America & wonders if they are the result of two Asiatic migrations in different periods. JDH asks Gray's opinion of the last volume of THE LIFE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE CONSORT & expresses his own surprise at its revelations regarding unconstitutional political manoeuvring by Prince Albert & Queen Victoria, especially in relation to the Crimean War. JDH comments on the reversal in popularity of Gladstone & Disraeli, JDH suspects Gladstone's charges about the ministry intending to help the Turks has moved opinion. JDH is not a Tory but thinks the Liberals have made a mess of things.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC649

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 March 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 31, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC650

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 April 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 32, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC651

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 April 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 33, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC654

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 May 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 34, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC655

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
20 May 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 35, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC656

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 June 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 36, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC657

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 June 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 37, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11659

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (124)
Summary:

Climbing plants.

Requests seeds of Echinocystis lobata for Hugo de Vries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC172

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 August 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.64-65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes that he & his wife, Hyacinth, are in Ireland. Killarney weather is terrible. JDH comments on absence from Dublin of [William Henry] Harvey & [Edward] Wright but notes David Moore is keeping the botanic garden well. Has recently been in touch with: [Daniel] Hanbury, Charles Dwight Marsh, Robert Lambourne & George Davidson of the Pacific Coast Survey. Discusses his work on the genus Amaranth for the GENERA PLANTARUM, he has referred to Martius' work. JDH gives news of his family: his sister Maria [McGilvray] & husband are unwell, 1 of their children is a tea planter in India. Hooker's son Charles Paget Hooker has failed his medical exams. Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker has gone to Barmen to study German & will then go to School of Mines. John Smith [Curator of Kew] has been seriously unwell, William Thiselton-Dyer has been left in charge of RBG Kew. Mentions: a letter to Wesley; the opinion of [Harvey Wilson] Harkness & [John] Muir on Sequoia trunks; & the Miocene flora of Iceland. Discusses geology, specifically his & Gray's differing opinions on glacial formation of granite valleys in the USA & contemporary formation of land masses. Discusses biogeography: Gray's thinking on commonalities in the Greenland & North American Flora. Disputes the correct classification of: Draba streptocarpa, Arenaria uliginosa & A. rossii. Discusses the correct name of the Cypress Point [California] Cupressus; is it a form of common American tree C. macrocarpa? C. goveniana is different & C. macnabiana still uncertain. Mentions C. lambertiana seed collected by Ruprecht possibly on Krusenstern's expedition. Disagrees with Gray, re. climate & the relative importance of the equator & poles. Does not understand why Gray has called Olive a deciduous tree, or his comments on drought. Mentions specimens of a Texas Amaranth. Discusses Gray's book INTRODUCTION TO MORPHOLOGY & CLASSIFICATION, [Julius von] Sachs history of botany & politician Sir Trevor Lawrence's motion about opening Kew.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC658

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 38, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC659

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 39, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC660

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 September 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 40, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC661

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 October 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 41, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC662

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
-11-1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 42, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC663

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 43, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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