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DCP-LETT-11391

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 103–4
Summary:

Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1093

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Baron Ralph Robert Wheeler Lingen
Date:
3 March 1878
Source of text:
JDH/1/15 f.147, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC257

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Susan Hodgson (nee Townshend)
Date:
10 March 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.95, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Susan Hodgson for a letter about her husband Brian Houghton Hodgson. JDH recently dined with Sir Henry Verney, Childers & his daughter, & Mrs & Mr [William Ewart] Gladstone. He & Gladstone spoke about American & Californian trees & felling practices. JDH has also dined at the Colviles', where he bid farewell to Mrs Strachey before she leaves to join her husband [Richard Strachey] in India. Also in attendance: the Grant's, Joachin & the Huxley's. JDH & his wife [Lady Hyacinth Hooker] have been to see the Old Masters [exhibition], they left the baby [Joseph Symonds Hooker] at the Royal Society rooms with the porter's wife, much fuss was made of 'the President's baby'.

Contributor:
Hooker 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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