From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 November 1864]
Summary
JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.
Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra 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.
Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].
JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Nov 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 254–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4667 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1864
Summary
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4692 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 April 1864
Summary
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4452 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1864
Summary
R. I. Murchison’s address [see 4595] smashes Ramsay’s glacial theory.
JDH defends his view that CD should not answer Kölliker.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 238–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4608 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1864
Summary
John Scott has sailed.
Concurs with Lyell that CD need not reply to Kölliker.
CD’s Bignonia plants cannot be told apart without flowers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 236–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4602 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 [March] 1864
Summary
Reception of Scott’s paper.
Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.
Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.
Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.
Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.
Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 [Mar] 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 189–92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4404 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 10 June [1864] ). His observations of Nepenthes species are recorded in his notes in DAR 157.1: 111–12 …
- … 10 and 11. There is a copy of Frankland 1864b , inscribed by the author, in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Alphonse de Candolle had sent CD a paper by Marc Thury ( Thury 1863 ) on the production of sexes in animals; Hooker had mistaken the author of the paper (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 and n. 12, …
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1864]
Summary
Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Dec 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 262–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4708 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1864
Summary
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 227–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4537 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 April 1864]
Summary
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4445 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12, and Ospovat 1977 ). Lyell had referred to this notion most recently in Antiquity of man ( Lyell 1863a , pp. 363–6). CD did not accept Lyell’s theory as a sufficient explanation of climatic change, arguing that there was not enough evidence of the great continental changes that Lyell described (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, …
From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 10. Hooker refers to John Scott’s departure from his employment at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 11, and letter from John Scott, 28 March 1864 and nn. 18–20). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 12. …
- … 12). In a letter in the 30 January 1864 issue of the Reader , pp. 140–1, George Busk reported on an extensive limestone cave that had been discovered in 1862 during excavations for additions to a military prison on Windmill Hill, Gibraltar. The cave contained fossil bones of extinct animals, including humans; Busk and Falconer were still examining the specimens at the Royal College of Surgeons in January 1864 (see also the report by Busk in the 23 July 1864 issue of the Reader , pp. 109–10, …
