From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1866]1
in their case (as in our’s) depend on the favor of the public. The Director of the Adelaide Garden2 writes that no born colonist there ever saw a parasitic orchid.
The W. Ind. Gardens are roaring for E. Ind. Orchids & vice versa:—& we roar for all!—
Oliver will answer in a day or two about buds,3 the books are at binders.4
I go to Torquay tomorrow Lubbock goes by same Train.5
Lyell has been writing to me about the Coal-plants of Melville Island. But as we have not the plants, it is no use speculating on them.6 I have glanced at Lyells 1st. Ed. & do not doubt he there means all Globe cooler by massing land at Poles. I doubt it greatly—& suspect that he would only thereby redistribute amounts of heat & cold—as I gathered was his view from subsequent Editions.7 He makes no allusion to effect of vapor, which I am sure will throw out all his calculations.8
Ever Yrs affec | J D Hooker
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Fleming, James Rodger. 1998. Charles Lyell and climatic change: speculation and certainty. In Lyell: the past is the key to the present, edited by Derek J. Blundell and Andrew C. Scott. London: Geological Society.
Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray.
Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. 10th edition. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
Summary
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-5076
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 60
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp inc †
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 5076,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-5076.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 14