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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 126
Summary:

Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.

T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 127
Summary:

CD has begun seed-salting experiments. Wants JDH to write which seeds he expects to be easily killed [in salt water].

CD’s idea that coal-plants lived in salt water like mangroves made JDH savage.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 128
Summary:

Pea self-fertilisation: has forty-five varieties growing side by side.

Describes seed-salting experiments: e.g., immersion in tank filled with snow. Reports some successful germinations.

Made list of naturalised plants from Asa Gray’s Manual [of Botany] to calculate the proportions of the great families.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 129
Summary:

Rejects JDH’s suggestion that seed-salting experiments be conducted on huge scale. Only wishes to demonstrate possibility of sea transport, not establishment of any particular insular flora. More seed results.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 130
Summary:

More on seed-salting. JDH’s admission that he expected seeds to die in a week gives CD "a nice little triumph".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 131
Summary:

JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.

On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [May 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 147
Summary:

CD upset because salted seeds do not float.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 May [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 132
Summary:

CD’s seed paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8];

CD attacks Forbes’s "Atlantis".

Considers solutions to floating problem. Decides to test Azores seeds.

Photographs and drawings of CD.

Plant movement experiments with Hedysarum gyrans.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 134
Summary:

Asks JDH not to send H. C. Watson’s paper on Azores plants [Hooker’s Lond. J. Bot. 2 (1843): 1–9, 125–31, 394–408; 3 (1844): 582–617; 6 (1847): 380–97].

CD cannot endure trying all the Azorean seeds.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 June [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 135
Summary:

Seeds: worried they will turn into another barnacle job.

Studies plants colonising abandoned field.

Experiment on plant sleep movements.

CD objects to "Atlantis" because no evidence; does not affect species theory.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 June [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 136
Summary:

Detailed response to JDH’s critique of sea transport and continental connection theories. JDH’s claim that low plants are widely distributed fits both theories.

Species theory does not touch origin of life.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [June 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 137
Summary:

Thanks for Hedysarum.

Pleasure in identifying field plants.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [June 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 138
Summary:

Has used borrowing rights at Linnean Society Library arranged for him by JDH.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 140
Summary:

Has named 35 species of grasses.

Seed-salting continues.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 141
Summary:

CD experiments: sowing seeds in fields; "breaking" seeds’ constitution with coloured light; plant hybridisation. Compiling works on hybridism.

Respect for W. B. Carpenter.

Note on "nectar secreting" to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 258–9].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 142
Summary:

Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.

JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 139
Summary:

Parcels sent to Down by coach may get lost.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 143a
Summary:

Praise for JDH’s Flora Indica [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson (1855)] from CD and C. J. F. Bunbury.

CD and J. S. Henslow dining in London. JDH invited.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 144
Summary:

Morning with H. C. Watson; discussed problems of inferences from buried seeds.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129)
Summary:

Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.

When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?

Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.

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