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DCP-LETT-4519

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 222–4
Summary:

JDH is writing letters for Scott, whose temper will be "no obstacle for Hindoos and Musselmen working under him".

New curator at Kew finds considerable neglect, with hundreds of plants dying.

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DCP-LETT-4529

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11)
Summary:

CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.

JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.

Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.

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DCP-LETT-4537

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 227–8
Summary:

JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.

Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.

Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.

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JHC1455

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
22 June 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.255-256, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4543

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 229
Summary:

JDH going to visit W. H. Harvey in Ireland.

New curator at Kew.

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