From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[June 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 222b
Summary:
Request for Floras of Pacific Islands and Greenland.
Individual variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 June 1857
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.122, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 199
Summary:
Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 200
Summary:
"Law" [see 2092] correlating variability and abnormal development not confirmed by JDH for plants.
CD studies struggle for existence in his weed garden.
Scotch fir observed at Moor Park.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 201
Summary:
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
17 June 1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.156, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 205
Summary:
Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] June 1857
Source of text:
DAR 100: 115
Summary:
Embryology of plants of low systematic order. Comparative development begins only with first post-cotyledonary leaves.
Curt letter to JDH from George Henslow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
