From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 102
Summary:
Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 103
Summary:
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 84
Summary:
Many mutual acquaintances are ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 104
Summary:
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 105
Summary:
Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.
On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [July 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 106
Summary:
Orchids from Kew.
JDH’s income problems.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 July [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 107
Summary:
On orchids supplied by Kew; homologies of pollen and rostellum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 July – 10 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 109
Summary:
Puzzled by function of orchids’ rostellum.
Orchids’ pollen concentrated in two pollinia; hence one flower can fertilise only two others. This may explain precision of orchid pollination mechanisms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11 Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: : 108
Summary:
Has found function of rostellum: modified stigma guarantees attachment of pollinia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [Aug 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 110
Summary:
Personal regards.
William Darwin will make a botanist.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 111
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Requests Lindley’s work on orchids [The genera and species of orchidaceous plants (1830–40)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 112
Summary:
After much crossing, has worked out meaning of dimorphism in Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 113
Summary:
CD’s orchid paper is to become orchid book [Orchids].
Primula paper is done [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Sept [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 114
Summary:
Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.
Orchids.
Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 115, DAR 115: 76
Summary:
Query on orchid homology.
Critical of F. A. Bauer on orchids [Illustrations of orchidaceous plants (1830–8)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6–7 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 116
Summary:
Orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 117
Summary:
Orchid anatomy: movement in Mormodes column.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 118
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Catasetum exemplifies slight modification of structure leading to new structure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Oct 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 119
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Wind as agent of self-fertilisation in orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 120
Summary:
Orchid anatomy. Movements of labellum.
Repeating Gärtner’s experiment with Verbascum varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
