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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 243–7
Summary:

Asks whether his observations on absorptive powers of glandular hairs of plants are new facts.

Asks for a Drosophyllum.

Comments on Francis Galton’s article in Fraser’s Magazine,

Greg’s Enigmas,

and Alphonse de Candolle’s Histoire des sciences.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 248–50
Summary:

Explains why he wants Drosophyllum.

Hopes JDH will be elected President of Royal Society.

Agrees with JDH on Greg’s Enigmas.

Would like Greg to visit Down if JDH comes as CD’s "protector".

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 251–2
Summary:

Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.

Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.

Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.

9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Jan [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 253–6
Summary:

Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.

Comments on various articles he has read.

Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Feb 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 257–8
Summary:

Is drawing up the account of his crossing experiments. Requests JDH to add the families after nine genera, the names of which he encloses. Whenever there is no objection he would like to arrange the families in some sort of natural order.

Recommends Spalding’s article on instinct in Macmillan’s Magazine [27 (1873): 265–81].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Feb [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 259–60
Summary:

Will see whether formic acid delays germination of fresh seeds.

Thinks primer not at all a folly. Refers JDH to Asa Gray’s "child’s book" [see 8363].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Apr 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 261–2
Summary:

Wants to discuss raising a testimonial fund for Huxley and whether Huxley would stand this.

Contributor:
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From:
George Leonard Jenyns
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker; Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
[c. 19 Apr 1873?]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 142
Summary:

Recipient is to stay with CD;

sender relates some observations of dogs and birds, to be passed on to CD.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 April 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: Alfred Russel Wallace Collection MSS.B.W15a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 263–4
Summary:

Thanks for Dionaea.

George Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1873): viii–xxix]. Admires it greatly.

CD’s recent work leads him to a different theory [from GB’s] on the separation of the sexes of plants.

Huxley has been at Down working with CD on Drosera – very helpful.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 265–6
Summary:

Agrees with JDH on G. J. Allman’s work. Approves of JDH’s text proposing GJA for Royal Medal.

Will be proud to see General Richard Strachey at Down – a truly great man.

Specimens of Drosera are waiting to be examined.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 July [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 267
Summary:

Has three common garden plants of which he needs to know correct names; will send specimens as soon as he hears JDH is back.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 268–9
Summary:

Starts tomorrow for visit to Farrer and Effie [Euphemia Farrer, daughter of Hensleigh Wedgwood]. Has not done such a feat [i.e., staying as a guest of someone outside the immediate family?] for 25 years.

Has been half killing himself with Drosera.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 270–1
Summary:

Asks JDH why so many plants are protected by a thin layer of waxy matter or with fine hairs.

Wrote to John Smith for a plant of Oxalis sensitiva, but it has not acted well.

Rejoices over Ayrton’s retirement. Hopes W. P. Adam, his successor, is a good sort of man.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 272–3
Summary:

Asks JDH to inquire of gardeners at Kew what they think about injury to plants from watering during sunshine. Wishes to experiment. He is already convinced that drops of water do not act as burning lenses.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 274–6
Summary:

Thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for useful information.

Is surprised Mimosa albida is not sensitive to water. Asks that they try again, or lend it to him.

Remembers a walk in Brazil in great bed of Mimosa.

After JDH left, CD was very bad, with much loss of memory and severe shocks continually passing through his brain.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Sept [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 277–9
Summary:

Obliged for information on Mimosa albida; if a vigorous plant behaves as JDH says, CD’s notions are all knocked on the head.

Anxious to read Tyndall’s answer to Tait [Nature 8 (1873): 399].

Drosera story too long for his strength. Essentially the leaves act just like stomach of an animal.

Burdon Sanderson will give some grand facts at BAAS about Dionaea.

Offers to help JDH with Nepenthes experiments. Finds experimental work always takes twice as much time as anticipated.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Sept 1873
Source of text:
DAR 95: 280–1
Summary:

Had read Tyndall’s letter [Nature 8 (1873): 399] – awfully savage, but certainly a great mistake to print it.

Thinks JDH will think better of Clerk Maxwell’s paper after he reads it.

Asks whether JDH could find out for him the temperature of rain in very hot countries.

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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 October 1873
Source of text:
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1873]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8 f.3a)
Summary:

Hopes to get another species of Desmodium from Mr Rollisson.

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