To W. J. Hooker [c. February 1849]
Summary
Thanks WJH for information on J. D. Hooker’s progress.
J. D. Hooker promised a copy of his Galapagos paper. Can WJH forward one to the Athenaeum?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | [c. Feb 1849] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–J 1849, 27: 155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1218 |
To J. S. Henslow [7 October 1849]
Summary
Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,
and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [7 Oct 1849] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A89–A90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1283 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1850]
Summary
On Himalayan stratigraphy. Believes JDH’s observations of glacial action are the first ever done east of Urals.
Barnacles and the species theory; impressed with variation.
Effect of CD’s species sketch on JDH’s view of willow systematics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 June [1850] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1339 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 April 1849
Summary
Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.
CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.
CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Apr 1849 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1239 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Actually 28 March, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 March 1849 . See the second letter from …
- … 1849) contained more positive reviews of his letters to William Jackson Hooker . There is no evidence indicating that Hooker’s letters were divided and ‘spitted’, although not all the surviving letters are complete. See letters to H. E. Strickland, [4 February 1849] and 10 February [1849] . J. D. …
To J. S. Henslow [before 12 October 1849]
Summary
J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [before 12 Oct 1849] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1284 |
To Maria Hooker 31 August [1850]
Summary
Expresses sympathy to MSH on W. J. Hooker’s illness.
Will send his comments on Hodgson’s physico-geographical memoir ["On the physical geography of the Himalayas", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 18 (1849): 761–88] directly to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker |
Date: | 31 Aug [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.95) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1349 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1848]
Summary
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1202 |
To W. J. Hooker 22 May [1850]
Summary
Encloses a letter from J. D. Hooker [see 1257], thinking that WJH would like to see it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | 22 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1331 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 October 1849
Summary
CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.
Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.
Details of water-cure.
Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.
Lamination of gneiss.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Oct 1849 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1260 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Dawson’s letter. Doubts his evidence that climate of land was not glacial when upheaved after submergence.
Encloses memorandum of questions for C. V. Naudin.
Expression of the emotions.
Is building a hothouse for plant experimenting.
JDH’s ideas on America are more atrocious than his. What a new idea that struggle for existence is necessary to try to purge a government! Probably true. Slavery draws him one way one day, another the next. Yankees are "detestable toward us". Tocqueville.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3875 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … of Gärtner 1849 for CD’s work on hybridisation, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 …
- … letter to Ray Society, [before 4 November 1964] . CD refers to Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (Experiments and observations on the production of hybrids in the plant kingdom: Gärtner 1849 ). CD had expressed a wish to see this work translated and Hooker had offered to raise the matter with the Ray Society , with the suggestion that CD put his request in writing (see letter to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 13 January [1863]
Summary
Acquired characteristics.
Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.
Asa Gray on slavery.
Falconer’s partial conversion.
Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3913 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1857]
Summary
Independence of variation from climate shown by several plant genera; CD asks for confirmation.
Progressing with book [Natural selection].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Apr [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2073 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1861]
Summary
Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.
Orchids.
Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3268 |
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 |
To Ray Society [14–18 January 1865]
Summary
"Read a letter from Mr Darwin expressing his regret that the state of his health would not permit of his writing an Introductory Chapter to the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ray Society |
Date: | [14–18 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 107r: Minute 1146, 3d February 1865) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4764 |
To G. R. Waterhouse [January–June 1850]
Summary
Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.
Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [Jan–June 1850] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1144 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [or 28 September 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 or 28] Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4901 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [December 1859]
Summary
High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of immutable creation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 33, 30a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2606 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Hooker, W. J. | (3) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Hooker, W. J. | (3) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |