From J. D. Hooker [17–23 December 1857]
Summary
Sending more Candolle volumes for survey of species with well-marked varieties.
Has begun his introduction [to Flora Tasmaniae]; will not make generalisations.
J. D. Dana’s pamphlet too metaphysical for JDH.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17–23 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2188 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [17–23 December 1857] …
- … the relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 December [1857] , in which CD reported …
- … 16 December (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 December [1857] ). Hooker’s mention of sending …
- … CUL. For CD’s opinion of Dana 1857 , see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 December [1857] . …
- … written. Candolle and Candolle 1824–73 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 December [1857] . …
- … Hooker refers to CD’s calculations on the order Labiatae (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] ). …
- … J. D. Hooker 1855 [–60]) was published separately. The ‘two tracts’ were probably Asa Gray’s review of Arthur Henfrey’s Elementary course on botany (London, 1857) …
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1857]
Summary
Finds CD’s results [of his survey of well-marked varieties from A. P. and Alphonse de Candolle’s Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis (1824–73)] "very curious and suggestive". Thinks the Labiatae will present an obstacle to him as it is a very large and distinct order with well-defined species and genera. Would like to see him tackle more volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus, as his case can only be established by evidence from mundane plants. CD should beware of generalising from local species variability. A comparison of C. C. Babington’s and G. Bentham’s [British] Floras [Babington Manual of British botany (1843, 4th ed., 1856); Bentham Handbook of British flora (1858)] would be invaluable. Suggests CD write to Ferdinand Müller and Charles Moore in Australia. Moisture favouring extension of species is important for CD’s view.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 195–6, DAR 47: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2181 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1857] …
- … J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1857] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1857] . In CD’ …
- … Hooker about the leaf arrangement in Linum (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] , …
- … Hooker to investigate this point (see CD note attached to letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] ). …
- … did not hold. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 December [1857] , for CD’s response to this …
- … friend Dr. J. D. Hooker (Flora Indica, Introductory Essay, &c. )’ ( Decaisne 1857 , p. …
- … Hooker and Thomson 1855 and to J. D. Hooker 1853–5 . Babington 1851 and Bentham 1858 . In October 1857, …
From J. D. Hooker [11 April 1857]
Summary
JDH cites W. H. Harvey’s observations on Fucus and David Don’s on Juncus as examples of variations that are independent of climate. There are many such cases. Gives his working scheme for categorising variation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 Apr 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 198–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2074 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [11 April 1857] …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 8 April [1857] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 April [1857] . This note …
- … to Hastings (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 April [1857] & n. 5) and by the relationship …
- … are on the subject of variation’. See also the letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 April [1857] . …
From J. D. Hooker [2 December 1857]
Summary
News of Mrs Henslow’s death.
Studying Impatiens, which bears on CD’s problems. Though genus is endemic to India, with over 100 species, CD will be glad to know they do not run into one another.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 178–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2178 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [2 December 1857] …
- … Wednesday before letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1857] . Harriet Henslow had died in …
- … November 1857 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 November [1857] ). Harriet Henslow was the …
- … to vary. ’ See letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] . The crossing of sweet and …
From J. D. Hooker [23 March 1862]
Summary
Lighthearted thoughts on "the development of an Aristocracy" after a visit to Walcot Hall, Shropshire.
On CD’s point about the effect of changed conditions on the reproductive organs, JDH does not see why this is not "itself a variation, not necessarily induced by domestication, but accompanying some variety artificially selected".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 27–9; American Philosophical Society Library (Hooker papers, B/H76.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3480 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … insect forms in the letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 July [1857] ( Correspondence vol. 6). CD …
- … Correspondence vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 June [1857] ). Hooker described his …
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 April 1857] ). However, he subsequently stated that …
- … Hooker, 8 June 1860 , and letters to J. D. Hooker, 29 [May 1860] , 5 June [1860] , and 12 [June 1860] ). CD discussed his ideas on reversion with Hooker during the preparation of his ‘big book’ on species in 1857 ( …
- … J. D. Hooker 1853 , p. x. Hooker had expressed the view that climate had little direct influence on the form of plants during correspondence with CD, in April and May 1857, …
From J. D. Hooker [27] June 1857
Summary
Embryology of plants of low systematic order. Comparative development begins only with first post-cotyledonary leaves.
Curt letter to JDH from George Henslow.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27] June 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2114 |
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 November 1854]
Summary
Fossil leaves from Disko Island.
JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.
Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.
Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 385 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1600 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1854]
Summary
JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.
There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 214–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1629 |
From H. C. Watson [after 23 March 1858]
Summary
Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 Mar 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 45: 16–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1808 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1864
Summary
Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.
Will CD sit for Woolner?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 234–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4600 |
From Charles Lyell 17 June 1856
Summary
CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".
CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".
Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 475 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1905 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker 1857 ). CD’s reply indicates that he thought Lyell referred to Raoul …
- … Hooker described as the same as that of New Zealand in J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: vii, or to Raoul Island, in the Kermadec group, which also possesses a New Zealand flora but is some 600 miles from New Zealand. Hooker wrote a paper on the botany of Raoul Island in 1857 ( …
From Charles Moore 11 August 1858
Summary
Encloses a list of British perennials which seed in New South Wales and explains the source of his information. Lists plants which have become weeds in the country.
Author: | Charles Moore |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2322 |
From Asa Gray 7 July 1857
Summary
Believes, with CD, that extinction may be an important factor in explaining plant distributions, but sees no reason why the several species of a genus must ever have had a common or continuous area. "Convince me of that, or show me any good grounds for it … and I think you would carry me a good way with you". It is just such people as AG that CD has to satisfy and convince.
Feels that the crossing of individuals is important in repressing variation and perhaps in perpetuating the species, but instances some plants in which it cannot, apparently, take place.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 381; DAR 165: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2120 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 6 May 1858]
Summary
Reports that N. J. Andersson finds every European willow bar one is also American.
Has heard from David Livingstone and reports on his progress.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 May 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2277 |
From J. D. Hooker [23] December 1865
Summary
No one believes in Karsten.
Surprised by CD’s observations that illegitimate crosses within a species produce hybrid-like offspring.
JDH’s scepticism of Scott’s observations.
On proposing James Hector vs Julius von Haast for Royal Society; on learned society honours.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23] Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 47–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4954 |
From Thomas Glover 26 October 1857
Author: | Thomas Glover |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2160 |
From Charles Lyell [16 January 1857]
Summary
Enumerates fossil mammals known in Secondary strata.
Lack of angiosperm plants in rocks older than Chalk is no reason to anticipate rarity of warm-blooded quadrupeds.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 394 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2039 |
From M. T. Masters 4 April 1868
Summary
MTM did not write Gardeners’ Chronicle review of Variation [(1868): 184].
Encloses letters supporting a project [Botanical Congress?] to promote horticulture, and hopes CD will reconsider giving his support.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6092 |
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