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DCP-LETT-1092

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1094

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1095

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 95
Summary:

Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1097

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1847
Source of text:
DAR 100: 75–6
Summary:

JDH’s aunt cannot find lodgings for CD.

Similarities between floras of Tierra del Fuego, Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand; does not feel migration sufficient explanation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1098

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 96
Summary:

CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 97
Summary:

JDH’s books have arrived.

Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1080

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 101
Summary:

Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 98
Summary:

Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.

Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1104

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 99
Summary:

Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1105

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 100
Summary:

Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.

Urges JDH to go to Scotland.

Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1106

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 104
Summary:

Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1268

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 August 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.33, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-1110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 102
Summary:

Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1269

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 August 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.34, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1270

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 August 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.35-36, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-1118

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 103
Summary:

David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.

Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1273

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
16 September 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.37, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1274

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 October 1847
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.38, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-1123

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 108
Summary:

Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.

Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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