From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 131–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5358 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1867
Summary
His view of CD’s hypothesis that Atlantic island genera are descended from extinct European plants.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 135–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5372 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 February 1867
Summary
Has declined Presidency of BAAS.
Relation of insular and continental genera will always be difficult problem.
On Providence and the "continuity theory".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 138–142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5390 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 February 1867
Summary
Relieved that CD approves his declining the Presidency of BAAS. The BAAS and the role of scientific men in it.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 143–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5399 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 March 1867
Summary
Has been persuaded to accept BAAS Presidency.
On Charles Naudin’s discovery of seeds of Chamaerops fertilised by the date-palm.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 145–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5441 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 March 1867
Summary
Sends Naudin’s letter.
Pangenesis.
Benjamin Clarke is mad.
Interested in CD’s Ipomoea experiment.
Scott’s experiments are all in CD’s favour.
Clarifies a sentence in "Insular floras".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 147–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5449 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 March 1867
Summary
More on Naudin’s hybrid; the wonder lessened slightly.
JDH’s view that insular plants [distantly] related to those of continents are common came to him only after the lecture was in print; has not yet thought it out fully.
Moroccan flora may throw some light on Madeira flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 151–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 143: 643) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5456 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 [and 27] March 1867
Summary
Will be glad to have seeds of plants and CD’s climbing plant, which he has no doubt is Siphocampylus.
Anxious about his baby [Reginald Hooker].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 and 27 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5461 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 March 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5477 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 April 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5483 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 April 1867
Summary
Trail’s case is interesting, hopes it is true.
Has little faith in I. Anderson-Henry’s exactness.
Pleased with Paris exposition.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 161–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5501 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 May 1867
Summary
Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.
Will go to Paris again at end of month.
Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.
Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5539 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 May 1867
Summary
Does not share CD’s objection to continental extension, i.e., that it must be extended to every island in every ocean.
Sends paper on domesticated animals by Brian Hodgson [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 165–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5548 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1867
Summary
Has been reading [H. C. Fleeming Jenkin’s] review in North British Review. Would answer it if not so lazy.
Has read Mount Sorel [A. Marsh-Caldwell (1845)] and Disraeli’s life of Lord G. Bentinck [1852]. Bad science, bad literature, bad politics.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 167–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5570 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1867
Summary
Has been too busy to write. Is leaving for Switzerland that evening.
A friend, who ran away from home as a boy, has two sons who have done the same several times. Is the case worth investigating for CD?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 169–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5577 |
From J. D. Hooker [27 July 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 July 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5586 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 July [1867]
Summary
Plans to come to Down on Saturday.
Returned Adam Bede two years ago.
Wishes CD would return Tylor’s Early history of mankind
and his own Himalayan journal with his notes, "both of which I have lent, i.e., lost".
Lyell well and full of "Insular" difficulties which he will propound.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 172–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5588 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 August 1867
Summary
His opinion of two novels: Mary Barton and North and south [both by Mrs Gaskell].
Sends R. O. Cunningham’s letters.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 174–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5609 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 August 1867
Summary
Has given up Scotland trip due to his mother’s illness.
Asks for Fritz Müller’s full name – "he can help us much".
Reports on self-impregnated Victoria and impregnation of Chatsworth plants. Difficult to get foreman [of gardens] to keep accurate register.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 176–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5619 |
From J. D. Hooker [14 September 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Sept 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5627 |