From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 530–1
Summary:
Erasmus’ death and CD’s sentiments on death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 and 4 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 532–5
Summary:
Praises JDH’s York address.
S. B. J. Skertchly has paralleled Axel Blytt’s work in Cambridgeshire fens.
JDH too cautious on southern glacial period.
Is Kew interested in Azores plants collected by Arruda Furtado, a local inhabitant and an evolutionist?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 536–7
Summary:
Comte [de Paris] will have plants next summer.
Arruda Furtado will send his mountain plants from Azores.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 538–41
Summary:
Visiting his son Horace.
Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.
Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?
Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 542–3
Summary:
Profuse thanks for plants.
Specifies which euphorbs he wants. Euphorbs’ alternate rows of ammonium carbonate reactive/non-reactive cells are worth more study.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Nov [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 544
Summary:
Cannot read signature on letter sent via JDH from Lima.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 95: 545
Summary:
CD sends cheque for £250 [see 13620].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
