To J. D. Hooker 12 August [1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 298 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5190 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1866]
Summary
Pleased by JDH’s success. JDH gives argument for occasional transport with perfect fairness.
W. R. Grove’s address [see 5201] good, but is disappointed that species part was so general.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5200 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1866]
Summary
Susan Darwin still lives, but is dying.
Requests an Erica massoni to compare with Drosera.
On L. Agassiz’s "astonishing" view that Amazon Valley was filled with gigantic glacier. Asa Gray says LA is determined to cover the globe with glaciers in order to destroy "Darwinian views".
Excellent review of A. Murray [The geographical distribution of mammals] in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 902].
Frankland’s Royal Institution lecture ["On the source of muscular power" Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1862–6): 661–85].
Wallace’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5217 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 October [1866]
Summary
Did not think JDH had written Murray review [see 5217].
Does not think Gardeners’ Chronicle best for publication of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 6–7, 27, 50–1, 75–6].
T. Laxton’s article, on direct action of pollen of peas on seed and pod, a grand physiological fact and "delightful" for Pangenesis.
Interview with Herbert Spencer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 301 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5227 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 October 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5228 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1866]
Summary
Introduces Ernst Haeckel.
Lyell sent same chapters to CD, who thinks them very good but is not convinced that changes of land and water will do all he thinks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5257 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1866]
Summary
Requests water-lily pods to count, weigh, and to germinate some of the seeds of the crossed and uncrossed pods.
Hopes Haeckel did not bore him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5262 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 November [1866]
Summary
Requests roots of two species of Mirabilis for "a curious experiment in crossing".
Has subscribed £10 to Jamaica committee to prosecute Governor Eyre.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5281 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Nov 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5284 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December [1866]
Summary
Is sending some plants and seeds to JDH.
Thanks Mrs Hooker for telling him of a life of his grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] of which he had not heard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5295 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1866]
Summary
A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?
A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.
Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.
On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.
Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 308, 308b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5300 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1866]
Summary
Has finished Variation. May insert a chapter on man.
Still puzzled by seeds of Adenanthera.
New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued.
Fritz Müller found six genera of dimorphic plants in one day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 309, 309b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5321 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1866]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?
Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 310, 310b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5326 |