From J. D. Hooker [16 November 1856]
Summary
JDH not happy with CD’s explanation of the absence of north temperate forms in the Southern Hemisphere, given his explanation for the spread of sub-arctic forms to the south. [CD’s note is in response to JDH’s criticism.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1622 |
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- … CD’s explanation of the absence of north temperate forms in the Southern Hemisphere, given …
- … added pencil ] after[‘ wards’ del ] the temperate can advance or do not wish to advance …
- … arctics will be checked & will invade— The temperate will hence be far longer in Tropics …
- … The subarctic will be first here to cross temperate & then Tropics. — They wd penetrate …
- … of the comparative rarity of Northern warm-temperate forms in the Southern Hemisphere. You …
- … without any change. As sub-arctic, temperate & Tropical are all slowly marching towards …
- … distressed, then *some stray [ interl ] the temperate will invade, [ illeg ] to height …
From J. D. Hooker 21 February 1866
Summary
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 59, 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5013 |
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- … 1866] , n. 9). In an earlier paper on the temperate flora of Cameroon and Nigeria, Hooker …
- … had juxtaposed CD’s theory of temperate species moving overland to the tropics at the …
- … Darwin Library–CUL. On the existence of temperate plants on tropical mountains, see also …
- … as this of the distribution of Arctic & temperate types over tropical mts. To account for …
- … at present; whilst the dispersion of temperate forms from Japan to Tasmania & from Algeria …
- … found on the distribution of a very few temperate genera & species, a glacial extension …
- … tropical distribution, & claim that of temperate in your own justification. — The question …
- … has so little change been produced in the same time in temperate latitudes. But here you …
- … is the tropical differentiation greater than the temperate & is tropical distribution of …
- … types more general than temperate. I think it is, but to answer that one must see how many …
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1864
Summary
JDH is making inquiries for CD on temperate climbing plants.
Discusses politics of Royal Society Council in awarding CD the Copley Medal.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 258–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4684 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 December 1866
Summary
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 121–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5305 |
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- … into Australia, & of which plants the temperate & tropical plants of that country may be …
- … forms. The presence of so many of these temperate & cold Australian & New Zealand genera …
- … a very extended northern distribution of Australian temperate forms. It is a frightful …
- … the plains of Borneo were covered with a temperate cold vegetation that was driven up Kini …
- … In Origin , pp. 378–80, CD had argued that temperate forms of vegetation had migrated …
From J. D. Hooker 6 and 7 April 1850
Summary
Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.
JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.
Argument with Falconer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 and 7 Apr 1850 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1319 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1858
Summary
Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.
Still regards plant types as older than animal types.
The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 128–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2382 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 March 1863]
Summary
Evidence of tropical floras continuous since Tertiary cannot fit CD’s position on intermittent cold periods.
Agrees with CD on reversion and latency.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4064 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1862
Summary
JDH admits he wrote Gardeners’ Chronicle and Natural History Review articles on orchids [Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863, 910; Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6].
JDH’s objections to CD’s idea of how Greenland was repopulated. Temperate Greenland has as Arctic a flora as Arctic Greenland – a fact of astounding force. Why should certain Scandinavian species be absent? Migration by sea-currents can no more account for the present distribution in Greenland than can special creation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 68–9, 73–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3797 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 February – 6 March 1844]
Summary
Island floras; relationships with mainland. Ranges of species in mundane genera.
Galapagos plants one-third done.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Feb – 6 Mar 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-737 |
From J. D. Hooker [5 May 1862]
Summary
Household problems – stolen silver, maids. His house for some months has had reputation for being not a little disreputable.
On Cameroon plants.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [5 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 33, 134a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3537 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1881
Summary
Comte de Paris requests an orchid from CD for his huge collection.
JDH responds to CD’s criticism of York address.
Arruda Furtado could work on mystery of buried cypress trunks in the Azores.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 168–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13320 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 February – 16 [March] 1848
Summary
Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.
Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.
Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.
Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.
Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.
Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.
Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.
CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.
Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb – 16 [Mar] 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 52–4 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1158 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 June 1862
Summary
M. J. Berkeley wrote London Review & Wkly J. Polit. article.
CD is "out of sight the best physiological observer and experimenter that Botany ever saw".
Laments how much he [JDH] missed when doing the Listera ["Functions and structure of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].
Illness of wife and father.
"More plants from Fernando Po and more European".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 42–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3624 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 August 1866
Summary
More on continental extension vs transport [or migration] hypothesis. New questions raised. On Madeira, why were insects and plants changed so much, birds hardly at all?
Erratic boulders of the Azores.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 94–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5186 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 November 1856
Summary
JDH approves MS section on geographical distribution.
Never felt so shaky about species before.
His objections to some mechanisms of distribution that CD proposes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 105–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1983 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 November 1846]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1032 |
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- … more fully his Mexican type by ‘including temperate or dry or highland *parts of both [ …
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1850
Summary
Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Geology of Khashia [Khasi] mountains. Speculations on mountain building and origin of Himalayas.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1850 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 314–15 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1371 |
From J. D. Hooker [27 August 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4276 |
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- … On the climate and vegetation of the temperate and cold regions of East Nepal and the …
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1879
Summary
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 134–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12336 |
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- … notion that the E Asiatic & W. European temperate & subtropical Floras are very distinct, …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … on the mountains of Abyssinia, and likewise to those of temperate Europe. This is one of the most …
- … than at present in various parts of the tropics, where temperate forms apparently have crossed; but …
- … So again, on the island of Fernando Po, Mr. Mann found temperate European forms first beginning to …
- … of the torrid zone harmoniously blended with those of the temperate. So that under certain …
- … have co-existed for an indefinitely long period mingled with temperate forms. At one time …
- … cannot look to the peninsula of India for such a refuge, as temperate forms have reached nearly all …
- … of Java we see European forms, and on the heights of Borneo temperate Australian productions. If we …
- … continent to its southern extremity; but we now know that temperate forms have likewise travelled …
- … are on the mountains of Brazil a few southern and northern temperate and some Andean forms, which it …
- … number of forms in Australia, which are related to European temperate forms, but which differ so …
2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool
Summary
< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…
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- … Moncur, who also worked on the north and south blocks of the Temperate House at Kew. The Palm House …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
Summary
On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … lumbago– fundament–rash. Always been temperate– now wine comforts me much– could …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … would migrate towards the equator during an ice age and that temperate species would survive at …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
Summary
For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
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- … of similar species in both the northern and southern temperate zones. In the first edition of …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
Summary
The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … observed distributions, such as the presence of the same temperate species on distant mountains, and …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … Settlement – a thoroughly convict colony – a healthy temperate climate – far removed from civilized …