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DCP-LETT-3636

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 44–5
Summary:

Will see to Masdevallia and Bonatea.

Domestic matters.

Lyell’s health.

CD’s eczema.

Hopes CD will solve the mystery of Melastoma.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3651

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 46–7
Summary:

JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.

Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.

Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.

JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1122

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
22 July 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.38-40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3665

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 171, DAR 101: 48–9
Summary:

Wife’s health improved by trip.

Heer’s collections convince JDH that Miocene vegetation was Himalayan, not American, as Heer supposed.

Zurich promises to be a good natural history school.

Review of Natural History Review in Parthenon [1 (1862): 373–5].

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