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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 124
Summary:

Orchid homologies.

Sensitive responses in Catasetum.

Acropera becoming clear.

T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 77
Summary:

Asks JDH to look at movement of labellum in an orchid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 127
Summary:

Rostellum of Masdevallia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 125
Summary:

JDH’s Fernando Po case.

Madeiran fauna pre-glacial according to Oswald Heer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 126, 129b
Summary:

Orchid anatomy: homologies of column vascularisation.

Primula paper sent to Linnean Society.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 128, 129a
Summary:

CD fears he has misinterpreted vascularisation of butterfly orchid flowers.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 130
Summary:

Homologies of orchid flower vascularisation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 131
Summary:

JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.

Faunal distribution and the glacial period.

Orchid homologies.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 132
Summary:

JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 133
Summary:

Transport of an orchid to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 November 1861
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 134
Summary:

Refers to Bates' admiration of ARW.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 134
Summary:

Acropera species may be males of other orchids.

Homologies of ducts in orchids.

Went to British Museum to see Bates’s mimetic butterflies.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 135
Summary:

Rudimentary ovules of Acropera.

High opinion of Bates.

Orchid anatomy.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 136, 129c
Summary:

Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].

H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 137
Summary:

Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.

CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.

Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 138
Summary:

Seeks information on heating hothouses night and day.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 139
Summary:

Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.

Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 and 31 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 115: 83a
Summary:

Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.

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