To J. D. Hooker 16 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7949 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … letter from J. D Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 and n. 4. See, for example, …
- … from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 . CD refers to Hooker’s mother, …
- … to visit the Darwins (see letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 ). …
- … In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked CD to send him Henry …
- … in Southampton. In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked CD to …
To J. D. Hooker 21 January [1871]
Summary
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7448 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1871]
Summary
Sends proofs of Huxley’s article on Mivart, to be published in Contemporary Review ["Mr Darwin’s critics", 18 (1871): 443–76].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7977 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … records that Henrietta Emma Darwin had measles on 4 January 1871 and ‘came down’ on 25 …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Hooker, Albert Günther , Robert Swinhoe , and William Winwood Reade visited Down from Saturday 28 to Monday 30 January 1871. …
- … 1871 , n. 1. ) William Turner Thiselton-Dyer’s paper, ‘On spontaneous generation and evolution’, appeared in the October 1870 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ( Thiselton-Dyer 1870 ). Thiselton-Dyer cited Herbert Spencer’s Principles of biology ( Spencer 1864–7 ) frequently in his paper and agreed with Spencer’s view that life developed from non-living matter by slow stages. Emma Darwin’ …
To J. D. Hooker 26 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for information about Henslow’s mouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 July [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7881 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1873]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on G. J. Allman’s work. Approves of JDH’s text proposing GJA for Royal Medal.
Will be proud to see General Richard Strachey at Down – a truly great man.
Specimens of Drosera are waiting to be examined.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 265–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8960 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1871]
Summary
Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.
Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.
Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.
Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 July [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 199–200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7878 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwins stayed at a house called Haredene, in Albury, Surrey, from 28 July to 25 August 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Henrietta Emma …
- … Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 204). St George Jackson Mivart’s anonymous review of Descent appeared in the Quarterly Review for July 1871 ([ …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma …
To J. D. Hooker 29 [June 1871]
Summary
Delighted to hear from Lyell of JDH’s return from successful ascent of the Atlas Mts.
Fears JDH found no Madeira or Canary types, but CD is pleased at his moraine discovery.
Thinks Lyell’s health is serious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [June 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 195–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7838 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1871]
Summary
CD is considering repeating experiments on melastomads in which different pollen sizes produced differing seedling sizes.
Responds to JDH’s query on differences in pollen within the same species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 445–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8087 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and CD’s ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II)). Hooker had offered to send a copy of Thury 1863 to CD (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 and n. 12). For additional discussion of Marc Thury and his work, see letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 and n. 22, and letter to W. R. Greg, 21 March [1871 ? ], …
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