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DCP-LETT-4224

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2]9 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 147–8
Summary:

JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.

CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].

JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".

[Dated 9 June by JDH.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4227

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
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DCP-LETT-4232F

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

DCP-LETT-4241

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
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JHC1352

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

DCP-LETT-4225

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
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DCP-LETT-4250

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.

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DCP-LETT-4254

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
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DCP-LETT-4226

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
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JHC1354

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-8?-1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 201
Summary:

Tendril plants received.

Has just completed large crossing experiment with Lythrum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4266

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12–13 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 202
Summary:

Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.

Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]

Contributor:
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JHC1353

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 August 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.145, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4274

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 204
Summary:

CD’s illness: he is vomiting "vegetable" cells.

Dutrochet has published the best of CD’s observations on tendrils [see Climbing plants, p. 1 n.].

Lyell has found Joshua Trimmer’s Arctic shells on Moel Tryfan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4275

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 157–8
Summary:

JDH working on the New Zealand flora.

Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.

T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4276

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 156
Summary:

Suggests CD consult George Busk about his stomach.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 205
Summary:

Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.

Climbing plants: asks for more plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1134

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-9-1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.65-66, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1451

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
-9-1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.251, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1133

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
10 September 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.63-64, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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