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DCP-LETT-4734

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224
Summary:

Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.

Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.

The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".

Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.

THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.

Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1462

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1865?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.263, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1600

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
--1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.113, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4743

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8–18 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 4–5
Summary:

Bentham wants "Climbing plants" for Journal of the Linnean Society, however long [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 1–118]. Publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society restricts correspondence.

Reader much improved.

Tyndall did write piece on spiritualism ["Science and the spirits", Reader 4 (1864): 725–6].

"Suppressed gout" annoys him as a term cloaking ignorance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4749

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 6
Summary:

Cannot come until week from Saturday.

Worked to death by Genera plantarum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4754

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 7
Summary:

John Scott has arrived in Calcutta and has been given an appointment by Thomas Anderson.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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