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JHC1345

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.135, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1440

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.237, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1442

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.239, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1444

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.241, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3041A

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Summary:

Comments on the travels of JDH.

Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.

Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1176

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
9 April 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.140, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1441

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton? Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
11 April 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.238, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1111

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
22 April 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.12-16, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1443

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
17?-5-1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.240, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Joseph Hooker writes to inform Miles Berkeley that John Steven Henslow had died the previous day at 4am.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1112

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
23 May 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.17-18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1114

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
2 June 1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.19-21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697)
Summary:

Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692)
Summary:

Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].

Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1115

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
7 July 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.22-24, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 698)
Summary:

Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1116

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
18 August 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.25-27, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1346

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 September 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.136, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1117

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
7 October 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.28-29, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-3289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 193)
Summary:

Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.

Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3299

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
25 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 194)
Summary:

Sends thanks for an informative letter;

would be grateful for any orchids; names some he would particularly like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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