Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin [23 November 1864]
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Darwin-Hooker Letters
<p style='text-align: justify;'>JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of <i>Dicentra</i> are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Praises CD’s <i>Lythrum</i> paper [<i>Collected papers</i> 2: 106–31].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>JDH completing F. Boott’s work on <i>Carex</i> [<i>Illustrations of the genus Carex</i>].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see <em class="doubleUnderline">4389</em>].</p>