From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 12
Summary:
Sends dried specimens of Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 143
Summary:
Thanks JDH for box of melastomes
and a very valuable reference from Daniel Oliver.
Is crossing Monochaetum which he thinks is dimorphic.
Is "sometimes half tempted to give up species & stick to experiments".
Pollen of Bletia hyacinthina is quite unlike other Bletia species but exactly the same as Epipactis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 7r
Summary:
Asks for the address of C. W. Crocker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 7v
Summary:
Sends C. W. Crocker’s address.
Doubts CWC can help with Mormodes.
Will see CD at Lubbock’s.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 144
Summary:
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 13
Summary:
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 15–16
Summary:
Pleased at CD’s opinion of his Arctic plants paper. CD has caught great blunder.
Lack of Arctic–Asiatic species in mountains of tropical Asia does not trouble him. Species seem to indicate some "current of migration" from Europe and W. Asia southeastward to Ceylon – an awful staggerer to bridge migrations.
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