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DCP-LETT-4207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 158
Summary:

Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".

John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.

JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.

Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.

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DCP-LETT-3585F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[after 10 June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 151: 331
Summary:

Notes on drops of nectar on sepals of cypripedium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4218

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 196
Summary:

Herbert Spencer’s work disappointing – "all words & generalities".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4221

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 197
Summary:

CD describes first observation of gyratory motion of tendrils: explains its adaptive function is to find objects to hold on to.

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