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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 111
Summary:

Orchid anatomy. Requests Lindley’s work on orchids [The genera and species of orchidaceous plants (1830–40)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 112
Summary:

After much crossing, has worked out meaning of dimorphism in Primula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 113
Summary:

CD’s orchid paper is to become orchid book [Orchids].

Primula paper is done [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 114
Summary:

Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.

Orchids.

Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 115, DAR 115: 76
Summary:

Query on orchid homology.

Critical of F. A. Bauer on orchids [Illustrations of orchidaceous plants (1830–8)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6–7 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 116
Summary:

Orchid anatomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 117
Summary:

Orchid anatomy: movement in Mormodes column.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 118
Summary:

Orchid anatomy. Catasetum exemplifies slight modification of structure leading to new structure.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 119
Summary:

Orchid anatomy. Wind as agent of self-fertilisation in orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 120
Summary:

Orchid anatomy. Movements of labellum.

Repeating Gärtner’s experiment with Verbascum varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 121, 126a, 124a
Summary:

JDH’s work on Gnetum: a living fossil.

Orchid anatomy.

Encloses lists of orchids and other specimens he would be interested in seeing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 122
Summary:

Acropera anatomy puzzling. Malaxis anatomy deciphered.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 123
Summary:

Orchid anatomy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 124
Summary:

Orchid homologies.

Sensitive responses in Catasetum.

Acropera becoming clear.

T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 77
Summary:

Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 127
Summary:

Rostellum of Masdevallia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 125
Summary:

JDH’s Fernando Po case.

Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 126, 129b
Summary:

Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.

Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 128, 129a
Summary:

CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 130
Summary:

Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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