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To J. D. Hooker   5 [December 1863]

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His bad health continues.

Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.

Origin to be published in Italian.

Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  5 [Dec 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 213
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4353

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To J. D. Hooker   26[–7] March [1864]

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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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  • … 7 December 1863] , and this volume, letter to Alfred Newton, 29 March [1864] and n.  3). …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  11, letters from Alfred Newton , 21 March 1863  and n.  5, and …
  • letter is in the hand of Emma Darwin ; only the paragraph headed ‘ Sunday morning —’ was written by CD; it is in pencil. In November 1863, Alfred Newton

From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker   [7 December 1863]

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CD too ill to write.

Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.

Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.

Author:  Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [7 Dec 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 215
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4351

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  • … oceanic and wind transport (see letter from Alfred Newton, 31 October 1863  and nn.  2 and …

To J. D. Hooker   25 May [1870]

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Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].

Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.

CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".

Saw Alfred Newton.

CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,

and on cross- and self-fertilisation.

Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?

Sympathises with JDH on Dawson’s paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope’s and L. Agassiz’s views.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  25 May [1870]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 169–72
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7200

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  • … Museum, Cambridge, on 23 May 1870 (see letter to Alfred Newton [22 May 1870] ). …
  • Alfred Newton . John Stevens Henslow had died in 1861. CD probably refers to the two houses where Henslow lived in Cambridge, the ‘Gothic Cottage’ in Regent Street and the house overlooking Parker’s Piece (see Walters and Stow 2001, p.  108). Descent went to press on 30 August 1870 (see CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). CD had asked Federico Delpino for seeds of Canna warszewiczii (now C.  indica ; see letter

To J. D. Hooker   3 and 4 August [1866]

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Answers JDH’s questions on connection of SE. England and continent,

on the effect of breaking the Isthmus of Panama,

and on Madeira flora as remnant of Tertiary flora.

Cautionary remarks for JDH on his "Insular floras" speech, designed to strengthen case of "occasional migration" theory.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  3 and 4 Aug 1866
Classmark:  DAR 115: 295, 295b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5174

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  • … see Correspondence vol.  13, letter from Alfred Newton, 27 October 1865 , n.  5. CD refers …

To J. D. Hooker   28 February [1868]

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Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.

Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.

Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.

A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review

and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  28 Feb [1868]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 55–7c
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5951

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  • Alfred Newton and George Howard Darwin . CD refers to Charles Kingsley . George Henry Lewes was the author of the review in the Pall Mall Gazette ([Lewes] 1868a). CD is addressing points made in the enclosure to the letter
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