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DCP-LETT-4608

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 238–9
Summary:

R. I. Murchison’s address [see 4595] smashes Ramsay’s glacial theory.

JDH defends his view that CD should not answer Kölliker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4614

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 243–5
Summary:

Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.

Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.

Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.

Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4616

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Sept 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 240–2
Summary:

Reports on personalities at the Bath meeting of BAAS [Sept 1864].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5350

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 September 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 240-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4623

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 110
Summary:

Sends Nepenthes laevis.

Wallace for the Royal Medal is a good thought.

W. H. Harvey is at Kew and JDH has asked him about desert climbers.

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