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
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 90
Summary:
Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 93
Summary:
Encloses quasi-hybrid Laburnum.
Suggests a new view of symmetry of flowers.
Will discuss coal and species sketch at Oxford [BAAS meeting (1847)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 94
Summary:
Gives further details on peculiar Laburnum.
Can JDH lend him a full treatise on grafting?
Contributor:
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