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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
4 January 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.191, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 79
Summary:

Cirripede observations.

Would like to hear what JDH has to say about his species sketch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 February 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.31-32, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 78
Summary:

Asks JDH not to think of looking at his species sketch until he has leisure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 80
Summary:

Can JDH come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 74
Summary:

Will come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday for a palaver on distribution, species mutability, migration, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 81
Summary:

Illness has delayed his departure. Will try to call on JDH on Thursday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 4 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 73
Summary:

Notes on part of CD’s species sketch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 82
Summary:

Thanks for JDH’s notes on species sketch. Proposes to drive to Kew to discuss them with him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 83
Summary:

Health permitting, proposes to visit Kew on Friday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 85
Summary:

Health bad, cannot get to Kew.

Will send Nulliporae to [L. A.?] Reeve.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 84
Summary:

JDH’s proposed India trip.

Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.

CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Apr 1847
Source of text:
DAR 47: 156–9
Summary:

[Copy made by CD’s amanuensis.] Discusses the rarity of intermediate forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Apr 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 86
Summary:

Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.

CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 89
Summary:

Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.

Has acquired a new microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 277
Summary:

[Extract of letter to WJH from T. E. Cantor] on zoological distribution in the Malay Peninsula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 91
Summary:

CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 92
Summary:

Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 87
Summary:

CD would like to call on JDH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 88
Summary:

Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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