From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 February 1866]
Summary
Lyell wants to see JDH’s last letter [the part on glacial periods]. Lyell full of concern about astronomical causes of heat and cold on the globe.
Encloses letter from John Scott.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 or 27] Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 65–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156: 1048) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5017 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … about astronomical causes of heat and cold on the globe. Encloses letter from John Scott. …
- … the last paragraph of enclosed from John Scott— I hope he has repaid you your money loan. …
- … Hooker had expressed concern about John Scott’s repayment of money given to him by CD ( …
- … to seek employment (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to John Scott, 21 May [1864] , …
- … and letters from John Scott , 10 June [1864] (second letter) and 2 August 1864). CD gave …
- … Scott. London: Geological Society. Lyell, Charles. 1867–8. Principles of geology or the modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. 10th edition. 2 vols. London: John …
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1866]
Summary
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5076 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1866
Summary
Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.
"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."
Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.
Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].
Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.
Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.
Balfour Stewart on sunspots.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 114–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5294 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 February 1866
Summary
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 59, 62–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5013 |
