From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 198
Summary:
Describes experiments on rotation of tendrils and shoots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 July 1863
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9)
Summary:
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 200
Summary:
Requests tendril-bearing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 July 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.144, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 152–3
Summary:
Encourages CD to continue observations on tendrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 199
Summary:
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 203
Summary:
Asa Gray writes as if Civil War were a holy war.
J. E. Renan on Jesus [Vie de Jésus (1863)].
Literature on tendrils of Cucurbita is contradictory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 154–5
Summary:
Sends "tendrilliferous" plants.
Plans visit to Down.
Naudin’s paper on tendrils [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 9 (1863): 180–203].
T. V. Wollaston snubs Bates’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
