From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 149
Summary:
Podostemaceae flowering under water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[early Dec 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 213
Summary:
Sends JDH part of MS for chapter 3 of Natural selection ["Possibility of all organic beings crossing"] to be corrected and returned.
JDH’s report of Podostemon flowering cleistogamously under water in Bengal.
[Copious revision by JDH.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 185
Summary:
Questions JDH on separation of sexes in trees in New Zealand flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1856
Source of text:
DAR 100: 113–14
Summary:
Has done New Zealand flora calculations. Results support CD’s theory of necessity of crossing. Trees tend to have separate sexes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 186
Summary:
CD is convinced of relation between separation of sexes and tree-habit.
Recent hard blows against crossing theory.
CD long tormented by land molluscs on oceanic islands; found transport possible experimentally.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 187
Summary:
On the variety of species definitions prevalent among naturalists.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
