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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

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

JHC972

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Gilbert Baker
Date:
11 March 1878
Source of text:
BAK/1 f.42, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker 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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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

JHC1094

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[Henry Chichester Hart]
Date:
13 May 1878
Source of text:
JDH/1/15 f.148, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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

JHC1733

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
28 May 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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

JHC805

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Joseph Whitworth
Date:
29 June 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.107, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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-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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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