From:
John Tyndall
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2nd. June 1858
Source of text:
JDH, vol. 4, 1260, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 June [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 236
Summary:
CD’s receipt of diploma from Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Academy [Dresden].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 237
Summary:
Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.
CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 238
Summary:
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] very ill with diphtheria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 239
Summary:
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 240
Summary:
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
