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DCP-LETT-9331

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 189–92
Summary:

The row at the Linnean Society and other troubles.

The Agricultural Society has sent Anton De Bary £100 to investigate the potato disease – an insult to M. J. Berkeley, who had worked on it for 30 years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1583

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.89-90, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1213

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
12 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.220-221, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9371

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 195–7
Summary:

"Half an answer" to CD’s query on visit of Sphinx to Hedychium gardnerianum.

Business affairs and family ill health keep him busy.

G. J. Allman will succeed Bentham as President of Linnean Society. Busk has refused.

Huxley is well.

JDH has indoctrinated Sir Stafford Northcote with his merits.

Lyell frail.

Old J. E. Gray goes on publishing.

"Is not [Thomas] Belt splendid!"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1181

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
30 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.145-146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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