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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 403
Summary:

Promises to vote for Lankester.

Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 404–5
Summary:

McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 406
Summary:

Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 407
Summary:

CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 408–12
Summary:

CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.

CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.

Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 413–14
Summary:

Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 415–16
Summary:

Asa Gray’s directed variation would make natural selection superfluous.

CD has read new theological reconciliations of Darwinism and religion.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 417–18
Summary:

CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 419–20
Summary:

CD thanks JDH for his condolences. Amy’s baby will live with the Darwins.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 423–4
Summary:

Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Oct [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 425–6
Summary:

Asks JDH to find young imperfect flowers of Hoya. CD has observed seed set although there was no trace of anthers.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 427–8
Summary:

Plants received from JDH.

Requests he verify an identification by Fritz Müller.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 429
Summary:

JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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