From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 15 February [1864]
Summary
John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 220 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4406 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 September 1864]
Summary
CD continues to have trouble reconciling the Veitch’s names for Bignonia plants and Kew names.
Lyell and Falconer called on CD in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [1 Sept 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4605 |
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- … Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 and n. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 August [1864] , and …
- … vol. 12, Appendix II)), and by the relationship between this letter and the letter from …
- … 12, Appendix II)). CD refers to a Bignonia specimen on which he had been experimenting; he believed it to be a species allied to B. unguis , though Hooker initially thought that it was identical with B. unguis (a synonym of Dolichandra unguis-cati ). See letters …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4429 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1864]
Summary
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 255a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4697 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 April [1864]
Summary
Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.
CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 227a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4450 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 January 1864]
Summary
CD’s illness.
The difficulty of getting John Scott to publish his work. Has sent Scott’s paper [on Primulaceae] to Linnean Society. CD is sure it is valuable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4397 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 October [1864]
Summary
To Lyell’s chagrin, CD has come round again to A. C. Ramsay’s glacial theory.
On primrose and cowslip, CD maintains they are good species, notwithstanding Scott’s work.
CD defines species by power of remaining constant for a good long time and showing appreciable amount of difference from close species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4642 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1864]
Summary
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4461 |
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- … see Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II; see also letter to T. H. Huxley, 11 April [ …
- … 109–12 and 116–18. For CD’s prescription of carbonate of magnesia, see the letter from …
- … 12, Appendix II), he began counting Lythrum seeds ‘about April 20 th ’ 1864, and finished the paper about 25 May 1864 (see also letter …
- … letter from William Jenner, 14 August 1864 . CD had first become interested in the three flower-forms of Lythrum salicaria at the end of 1861; he made crossing experiments in 1862 and 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 12, …
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 |
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To J. D. Hooker 22 [May 1864]
Summary
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 [May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 August [1864]
Summary
Asks JDH to name a Bignonia.
Coming to end of climbing plants paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Aug [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 247 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4593 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1864]
Summary
W. H. Harvey’s dandelion case worth publishing.
Suspects the uniform Primula elatior JDH referred to is a distinct species.
Scott’s paper on Passiflora shows variability of reproductive systems.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4531 |
To J. D. Hooker [20–]22 February [1864]
Summary
Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.
Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.
Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?
Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [20–]22 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 221a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4412 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1864]
Summary
Requests climbing plants.
Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4517 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 August 1864]
Summary
First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.
Nepenthes is a true climber.
Scott has visited Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4597 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 August [1864]
Summary
Clarifies queries on climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4588 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 August [1864]
Summary
CD is not well enough to sit for Woolner.
Two Bignonia plants, which JDH does not distinguish as species, can be separated by differences in climbing and sensitivity behaviour.
Wants to write a non-quarrelsome reply to R. A. Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86] in the Reader. Lyell opposes, but E. A. Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood support the idea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4601 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1864]
Summary
CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.
Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.
W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 238a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4525 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 and 12 January 1864]
Summary
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 and 12 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4389 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1864]
Summary
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 242a, 242c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4576 |
| letter | (34) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Darwin, Emma | (3) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
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You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
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< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Diagrams and drawings in letters
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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…
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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
