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DCP-LETT-3537

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 33, 134a
Summary:

Household problems – stolen silver, maids. His house for some months has had reputation for being not a little disreputable.

On Cameroon plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1121

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
9 May 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.36-37, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3530

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 27 (EH 88206079))
Summary:

Has dissected Leschenaultia biloba flowers. Finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium. Describes what is the apparent stigma but has found no pollen-tubes to confirm it as the real one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3527

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 28 (EH 88206079)
Summary:

Discusses Leschenaultia, finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium.

Gives information on where to obtain paper for drying plants and where to obtain a microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1445

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
20 May 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.242, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3567

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 36
Summary:

Does not know Rhododendron boothii; is sending Rhododendron keysii, a remarkable form. Will send Melastomataceae anon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3574

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 37
Summary:

Sends two flowers of Vanilla and two Melastomataceae.

Has worked on Cameroon list ["Mountain flowering plants and ferns of the Cameroons", in Burton, Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains (1863) 2: 270–7]

and Genera plantarum.

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