To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1858]
Summary
Memorial concerning British Museum collection.
Relation of Cape of Good Hope and Australian flora a great trouble. CD’s high estimation of importance of glacial period for distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2386 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … London: University of Chicago Press. 1977. Mammalia : Pt 2 of The zoology of the voyage of …
- … George Robert. 1846–8. A natural history of the Mammalia. 2 vols. London: H. Baillière. …
- … reviewed in Annals of N. H. Waterhouses Mammalia, & speculated that these 2 corners, now …
- … Robert Waterhouse’s Natural history of Mammalia ( Waterhouse 1846–8 ), which dealt with …
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1857]
Summary
Does JDH’s Wahlenbergia confirm CD’s law? Variations of one species assume the character of a distinct but allied species or genus.
Seed-salting: old ones float and germinate.
Owen’s "grand paper" [? J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 2 (1858): 1–37].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2117 |
To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … man to form a distinct sub-class of the Mammalia’ ( C. Lyell 1863a , pp. 480–93). C. …
- … classified as a distinct sub-class of the mammalia (see n. 27, below). In his letter to …
- … data in his reclassification of the mammalia according to cerebral characteristics ( Owen …
- … 5). In Owen’s reclassification of the mammalia ( Owen 1857 , p. 37), he divided the class …
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1857]
Summary
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2102 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 or 12 November 1845]
Summary
Thanks for Antarctic flora [Flora Antarctica (1844–7)].
Agrees geographical distribution will be "the key which will unlock the mystery of species".
Could JDH look over a rough sketch on species?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 or 12] Nov 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-924 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 July [1856]
Summary
CD’s predicament with continental extensions: they would remove argument for multiple creations, yet he opposes the doctrine. Lyell will not express an opinion on this.
Lyell fears mutability would lead to more specific names.
Encloses copy of letters to Lyell [1910 and 1917].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 July [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 172, 165, and 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1933 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 October 1847]
Summary
Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.
Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1123 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … had supervised the acceptance of CD’s fossil Mammalia into the college’s collection ( …
To J. D. Hooker [April 1852]
Summary
Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.
Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.
[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [Apr 1852] |
Classmark: | DAR 107: 66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1496 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Robert. 1846–8. A natural history of the Mammalia. 2 vols. London: H. Baillière. …
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1856]
Summary
Whether or not there should be movement of particles according to Tyndall’s theory of glacial action ["Observations on glaciers", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 2: 54–8, 441–3].
CD subscribes to H. C. Sorby’s view of gneiss [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
Seed-salting.
Pigeons.
Significant differences in skeletons of domesticated rabbits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1950 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Robert. 1846–8. A natural history of the Mammalia. 2 vols. London: H. Baillière. …
From Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker [31 May 1865]
Summary
Emcloses copies of correspondence concerning his dispute with John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 May 1865] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/14 f.323); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 113/3650–3, 3813–20, 3821–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4844F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … you 900. What I say of the bison & other Mammalia & of the Auk & Capercailzie was all from …
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1858]
Summary
Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.
His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2384 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Robert. 1846–8. A natural history of the Mammalia. 2 vols. London: H. Baillière. …
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Owen, Richard. 1871. Monograph of the fossil mammalia of the Mesozoic formations. London: …
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George Robert Waterhouse
Summary
George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 7 hits
- … American Journal of Science and Arts ]. Rengger on Mammalia of Paraguay [Rengger 1830]— …
- … 1807] read it— Erasmus has it Owens Brit. Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a]— Horner has it. (read) …
- … [Moquin-Tandon 1841] —— Owens Fossil British Mammalia [R. Owen 1846a] 27 th Elie de …
- … Sketch Read Classification & Geograph. Distrib of Mammalia.— Owen 5 o : Parker [R. Owen …
- … Edward. 1843–52. Catalogue of the specimens of Mammalia in the British Museum . 3 pts. (Pt 3: …
- … the classification and geographical distribution of the Mammalia, being the lecture … delivered …
- … 13a Sykes, William Henry. 1832a. Catalogue of the Mammalia observed in the Dakhan. …
Bibliography of Darwin’s geological publications
Summary
This list includes papers read by Darwin to the Geological Society of London, his books on the geology of the Beagle voyage, and other publications on geological topics. Author-date citations refer to entries in the Darwin Correspondence Project’s…
Matches: 1 hits
- … —A sketch of the deposits containing extinct Mammalia in the neighbourhood of the Plata. …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to the coexistence of man and the ornithorhynchus amongst mammalia,—or amongst fish, of the shark …