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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   22 July 1874

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Stupefied by CD’s trouble and kindness. All he wanted for Belfast meeting was assurance that mention of published work on <i>Drosera</i>, etc., in <i>Nature</i>, etc., would not interfere with CD’s book.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Would like his <i>Nepenthes</i> results to go to CD or to Royal Society, but prefers CD take them.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><i>Cephalotus</i> very puzzling.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Peas and cabbage grow twice as fast after two days’ immersion in <i>Nepenthes</i> as when placed in distilled water, but four days’ immersion seems to kill them.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has a splendid Australian <i>Drosera</i> twice as big as <i>D. rotundifolia</i>.</p>

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