From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 162
Summary:
Has passed the time by dissecting flowers of Cruciferae. Sends results, with diagrams, to JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 56–7
Summary:
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 160
Summary:
Thanks for JDH’s letter [3725].
Has become interested in experimenting on Drosera.
Observations on the ovaria of Cruciferae.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 58, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s Correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 273)
Summary:
Asks his opinion of A. C. Ramsay’s glacial lake theory. Encloses Julius Haast’s communication on glacial phenomena.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 161
Summary:
Thanks for Haast’s observations. Particularly glad to get geological evidence of glacial action (in Southern Hemisphere).
Thinks Ramsay’s theory to large extent true, but thinks that in a much disturbed country some lakes would have been formed in depressions.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 60.2: 88, DAR 115: 163
Summary:
Encloses MS on observations and experiments on Drosera. JDH’s opinion will help him decide whether to pursue subject in some future year.
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