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WCP5310

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1867
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 163-4
Summary:

Hooker states his favour for ARW to win the gold medal for biology.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC1150

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
17 May 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.97-99, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1610

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
18 May 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.124-127, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5548

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 165–6
Summary:

Does not share CD’s objection to continental extension, i.e., that it must be extended to every island in every ocean.

Sends paper on domesticated animals by Brian Hodgson [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1193

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
17 June 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.167, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5570

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 167–8
Summary:

Has been reading [H. C. Fleeming Jenkin’s] review in North British Review. Would answer it if not so lazy.

Has read Mount Sorel [A. Marsh-Caldwell (1845)] and Disraeli’s life of Lord G. Bentinck [1852]. Bad science, bad literature, bad politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1151

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
19 June 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.100, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5577

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 169–70
Summary:

Has been too busy to write. Is leaving for Switzerland that evening.

A friend, who ran away from home as a boy, has two sons who have done the same several times. Is the case worth investigating for CD?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5586

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 171
Summary:

Back from Switzerland. Mrs Hooker much improved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1152

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
27 July 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.101-102, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5588

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 172–3
Summary:

Plans to come to Down on Saturday.

Returned Adam Bede two years ago.

Wishes CD would return Tylor’s Early history of mankind

and his own Himalayan journal with his notes, "both of which I have lent, i.e., lost".

Lyell well and full of "Insular" difficulties which he will propound.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1363

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 July 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.155, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1364

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
31 July 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.156, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1228

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
31 July 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.261-261a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1365

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.157, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1366

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.158, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5609

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 174–5
Summary:

His opinion of two novels: Mary Barton and North and south [both by Mrs Gaskell].

Sends R. O. Cunningham’s letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1229

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
19 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.262-263, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC150

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
30 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.27, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH urges Asa Gray to publish his botanical writings as a collection, such a work would help JDH with the preparation of Rubiaceae for GENERA PLANTARUM. He complains that the profusion of botanical literature written in the Unites States of America is left to be catalogued, arranged & distilled by British botanists. JDH's mother [Lady Maria Hooker] is ill in Norwich. No news of [George] Bentham. [Daniel] Oliver has not returned from Skye. JDH has told Milligan to send Gray a set of his Tasmanian specimens.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5619

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 176–7
Summary:

Has given up Scotland trip due to his mother’s illness.

Asks for Fritz Müller’s full name – "he can help us much".

Reports on self-impregnated Victoria and impregnation of Chatsworth plants. Difficult to get foreman [of gardens] to keep accurate register.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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