To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Lyell 1863a (see letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 and n. 13). The postscript …
- … vol. 7). See letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 35. The reference is to Hugh …
- … refuge’. See also letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 27. See Correspondence …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [15 March 1863] . See letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] . See …
To J. D. Hooker 13 [March 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4039 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 12–13 March [1863] . See letter from Charles Lyell, 11 …
- … 1863 . See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . See letter from Charles Lyell, …
- … 1863, pp. 331–2), Lyell quoted what Owen had written on the subject in that paper, commenting that Owen ‘must surely have forgotten his own words’. See also letter to Charles Lyell, …
- … 1863) . There are annotated copies of this work in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] . In his letter, Hooker promised to send CD his copy of the Athenæum for 7 March 1863, if it contained, as expected, Charles Lyell’ …
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 May 1863]
Summary
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4148 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 296–301). See also letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] . The reference is to the squib …
- … of 20 April 1863 . CD discussed variation and design in his letters to Charles Lyell , [1 …
- … 1863] . This discussion formed part of an ongoing debate between CD and Hooker on the causal factors responsible for the geographical distribution of plants and animals (see, especially, Correspondence vols. 3 and 6). See letter to Charles Lyell, [ …
- … 1863] (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). Letter to Athenæum , 5 May [1863]. Letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 . Asa Gray had sent this letter in an envelope addressed to Hooker; Hooker read part of it before he realised it was for CD, and forwarded it to him (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7 May 1863] ). The reference is to Charles Lyell’ …
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 23 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased with news of BAAS meeting
and Scott’s possible position as Thomas Anderson’s curator.
Suggests Wallace is due for a Royal Medal.
Agrees with JDH’s criticism of Lyell’s address [see 4614].
Bentham’s Linnean Society address treats continuity of life in a vague non-natural sense.
Rereading his old MS [Natural selection] CD is impressed with work he had already done.
Writing Variation much harder than Climbing plants.
Encloses request to JDH to propose, or suggest on his behalf, that the Ray Society publish a translation of C. F. von Gärtner’s Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 14; DAR 115: 250a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4621 |
To J. D. Hooker [13 November 1863]
Summary
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4341 |
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
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 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Hooker, [23 February 1863] and n. 7. Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell had been invited to …
- … 1863] . In his letter of [23 February 1863] , Hooker asked CD for his reaction to the letter published by Richard Owen in the Athenæum , 21 February 1863, pp. 262–3, objecting to remarks made by Charles Lyell …
- … 1863, but CD became ill with ‘much sickness & weakness’, and was obliged to retract the invitation (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ). See letter to Charles Lyell, 4 [February 1863] . CD gave his full reaction to C. Lyell 1863a in his letter to Charles Lyell, …
To J. D. Hooker 23 April [1863]
Summary
Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.
Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.
Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4122 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1863] . Hugh Falconer’s letter in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459–60, criticised Charles Lyell …
- … 1863] . Lyell published a letter replying to Falconer’s (see Athenæum , 18 April 1863, pp. 523–5, and n. 7, above), in which he quoted (pp. 523–4) from Falconer’s letter (see n. 7, above): ‘I now invite Sir Charles Lyell , …
To J. D. Hooker 3 August [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4261 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [August 1863]
Summary
CD’s illness: he is vomiting "vegetable" cells.
Dutrochet has published the best of CD’s observations on tendrils [see Climbing plants, p. 1 n.].
Lyell has found Joshua Trimmer’s Arctic shells on Moel Tryfan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4274 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1863, are in DAR 157.1: 118, 120. CD’s observations on the tendrils of B. unguis were later published in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 50–1; Smilax aspera var. maculata is discussed on pp. 68–70. The references are to Charles Lyell …
- … Charles Lyell, 14 August [1863] . In 1863, the British Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting in Newcastle-upon-Tyne between 26 August and 2 September ( Annual register 1863 (pt 2), pp. 131–9). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12–13 August [1863] . Emily Catherine Darwin and Charles …
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1863]
Summary
Likes JDH’s review of Alphonse de Candolle [Mémoires et souvenirs de A. P. de Candolle (1862)].
Falconer’s article on Lyell ["Primitive man. What led to the question?", Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] too severe.
CD has written a letter to the Athenæum "to say, under the cloak of attacking Heterogeny, a word in my own defence" [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Bates’s Travels [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)] are excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4103 |
Matches: 2 hits
To J. D. Hooker [10–]12 November [1862]
Summary
So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.
Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.
Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.
Is working on cultivated plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10–]12 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3801 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 26] November [1862]
Summary
Discusses differences between Asa Gray’s view and his own on crossing. A common effect is the obliteration of incipient varieties. There is heavy evidence against new characters arising from crossing wild forms, "only intermediate races are then produced". Innate vital forces are somehow led to act differently as a result of direct effect of physical conditions. Astonished by JDH’s statement that every difference might have occurred without selection. CD agrees, but JDH’s manner of putting it astonished him. CD says, "think of each of a thousand seeds bringing forth its plant, and then each a thousand … I cannot even grapple with idea". Responds to JDH’s and Lyell’s feeling that he made too much of a deus ex machina out of natural selection. [Letter actually dated 20 Nov but is certainly after 3831.] [wrong field?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 26] Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3834 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Lyell, 21 August [1861] . CD had resumed work on Variation in the spring, after several months spent writing Orchids (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II)). CD prepared a draft of chapter 11 of Variation , ‘On bud-variation, and on certain anomalous modes of reproduction and variation’ ( Variation 1: 373–411), between 21 December 1862 and 23 January 1863 ( …
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Lyell, 8 October [1845] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 October [1845] ). CD refers to Calamus , a genus of climbing palms native to humid forests in the tropics. Few species of palm can be propagated from suckers or by division (Bailey and Bailey 1976 , p. 814). Hooker promised in his letter of 15 September 1863 …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.
Latent characters and reversion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4061 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 July [1868]
Summary
Sorry to hear of baby’s illness.
Comments on statement that belief in natural selection is passing away. Common descent of species is almost universally accepted now, and this is more important. In large part acceptance is due to Origin. Discusses reception of and interest in Origin in various countries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 July [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6292 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1863, and Bronn and Carus trans. 1867. The Dutch edition was Winkler 1860 . The Italian edition was Canestrini and Salimbeni trans. 1864. On the Russian editions of Origin (Rachinskii trans. 1864 and 1865), see Correspondence vol. 15, letter from V. O. Kovalevsky, 2 April 1867 and n. 7, and letter to Charles Lyell, …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …