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To J. D. Hooker   [22 November 1859]

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CD hopes Woodward was not the Athenæum reviewer. "The manner in which he drags in immortality, & sets the Priests at me … is base".

JDH has made CD feel he can "face a score of savage reviewers".

H. C. Watson has written to him in tremendous praise of the Origin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [22 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2542

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  • … instead of Watson here ( LL 2: 229). Letter from H.  C. Watson, 21 November [1859] . …

To J. D. Hooker   [26 May 1859]

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Returning from Moor Park. CD will take up proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [26 May 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 17
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2464

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  • Watson 1847–59 , which was published in July 1859 ( Publishers’ Circular , 16 July 1859, p.  336). See also letter from H.  C. …

To J. D. Hooker   13 April [1855]

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Pea self-fertilisation: has forty-five varieties growing side by side.

Describes seed-salting experiments: e.g., immersion in tank filled with snow. Reports some successful germinations.

Made list of naturalised plants from Asa Gray’s Manual [of Botany] to calculate the proportions of the great families.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  13 Apr [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 128
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1667

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  • Watson ( H.  C. Watson 1847–59 ). CD possessed the first three volumes, published between 1847 and 1852. They had been given to CD by Watson. The concluding volume was added to his set (now in the Darwin Library–CUL) in 1859. …

To J. D. Hooker   28 February [1858]

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JDH has confirmed CD’s opinion on the affinities of species in great genera. Is looking at large genera in several local Floras to find the "range & commonness of varying species".

Has been "beyond measure interested" in the construction instincts of the hive-bee.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  28 Feb [1858]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 225
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2228

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  • 1859, by which time the material was intended for Origin . CD discussed Hooker’s views in Natural selection , pp.  162–3. See letter from H.  C. Watson, …

From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker   4 January 1861

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Comments on the travels of JDH.

Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.

Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.

Author:  Hewett Cottrell Watson
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 Jan 1861
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3041A

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  • Watson used it to signify the mechanism of divergence. CD disapproved of Hooker’s use of the word centrifugal ( Correspondence vol.  7, letter to Charles Lyell, 31 [October 1859] and n.  3). The correspondence between CD and Watson on ‘convergence’ is in Correspondence vol.  8 (letters from [H.  C.   …
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