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DCP-LETT-4996

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 57–8
Summary:

Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.

Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1145

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
17 February 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.88-89, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1467

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
19 February 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.270, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5013

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 59, 62–4
Summary:

Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.

Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5017

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 or 27] Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 65–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156: 1048)
Summary:

Lyell wants to see JDH’s last letter [the part on glacial periods]. Lyell full of concern about astronomical causes of heat and cold on the globe.

Encloses letter from John Scott.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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