To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … p. xiii, and letter from Edward Blyth, 13 January 1866 ( Calendar no. 4975)). Richard …
- … Edward Blyth, 27 March 1863 and n. 2). A note of CD’s on remarks made by Blyth and others at the Dublin Natural History Society’s meeting on 15 January 1864 indicates that he read a report of the meeting in the 5 March 1864 issue of the Reader , p. 307 (see DAR 205.3: 8). For Blyth’s lecture tour of Ireland and Scotland during 1864, see Brandon-Jones 1997 , pp. 171–2. Blyth settled in England, writing to CD in 1866 …
To J. D. Hooker 10 May 1848
Summary
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 May 1848 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1174 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Blyth had gone to India in 1841 to become curator of the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal . CD’s notes on Blyth’s articles in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the use to which they were put in the Origin are discussed in Sheets-Pyenson 1981 . CD’s guess is in his letter to J. D. Hooker, [31 October 1847] . Hooker eventually made insular floras the subject of a lecture at the British Association meeting of 1866 ( …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
