From J. D. Hooker 12 April [1865]
Summary
W. J. Hooker is unwell.
Bentham wrote on Planchon ["The ancient and modern floras of Montpellier", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 202–25],
T. Thomson on subspecies ["Species and subspecies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 226–42]
and Greene of York on ["The Linnean Society’s transactions", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 189–202].
JDH did the leader in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1865): 267–8, 291–2].
Delighted with CD’s calm opinion of Origin. Has same view of some of his own papers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4812 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 8. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] . …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] . The …
- … and Joseph Reay Greene . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] and n. 7. Hooker …
- … 25 March 1865, pp. 267–8; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] and n. …
- … has not been identified. Letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] . Hooker refers to the …
From J. D. Hooker [15 and] 20 November [1862]
Summary
Sends CD West Ireland soundings.
More detail on his review "a la Lindley" [see 3797].
Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566] is capital.
Andrew Murray’s article plays into CD’s hands through sheer ignorance.
JDH is on Royal Society Council.
Has no recollection of applying natural selection to Polynesians. None but a German would dig out such a passage if it exists [see 3812].
Has caused Tyndall to modify his pseudo-geology.
Has not seen Duke of Argyll’s review [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97]. [The Duke] did not understand Orchids the least little bit, nor the Origin, when JDH saw him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 20 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 71–2, 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3807 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … by the relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] ; the Saturday …
- … Orchids ([J. D. Hooker] 1862c). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . [ …
- … D. Hooker, 7 November 1862 , and letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 November [1862] and [10–] …
- … Hooker had corresponded on this subject earlier in the year (see letters from J. D. Hooker, [10 …
- … Variability’. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . The second part of …
- … John Tyndall . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. 23. [G. …
- … D. Campbell] 1862 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. 26, and …
- … index 1: 511–12. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . Hooker refers to …
- … 23 [November 1862] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. 20. The …
From J. D. Hooker 14 December 1866
Summary
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 121–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5305 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Müller in Brazil. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] and n. 2. Adenanthera …
- … up in the bird’s gizzard (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] and n. 3). ‘ …
- … flowering plant). Hooker refers to Variation (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [ …
- … vol. 13, letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and nn. …
- … 1866] and n. 5). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] and n. 14. Hooker …
- … see the letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 September 1866] and n. 10. Hooker had been a …
- … Hooker as ‘M r . Deputy-Wriggler’ in his letter of 10 December [1866] . CD’s annotations are notes for his reply to this letter (see letter to J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 and n. 24). CD had discussed the possibility of a closer connection between Australia and New Zealand during a glacial period, allowing certain plants to move north, and at the same time, speculated about occasional transport as a means of distribution in his letter to Hooker of 10 …
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 November 1863
Summary
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4339 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1864
Summary
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4537 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 [May 1864] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] and n. 10, and Correspondence vol. 11, …
- … letters to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] and 23 September [1864] and n. 10). See also …
- … J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] and nn. 3 and 4. Hooker probably refers to John Horwood , a gardener who had superintended the building of CD’s hothouse in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1863]
Summary
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3892 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … on Saturday with Bentham for 10 days— Ever yours affec | J D Hooker What is the sum of our …
- … Hooker, 23 February [1858] and 31 March [1858] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker’s query has been found; however, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] . T. H. Huxley 1863a . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [ …
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 14. The first page …
- … See letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 13. …
- … from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 15). The Hookers …
- … letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 5). Tylor’s …
- … from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 8). Spencer had …
- … from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 9). Hooker had been …
- … from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] , and also commented on the …
- … Hooker of [10 July 1865] , CD made no mention of having received the proofs for a new section to be added to the preface of the third edition of Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863c ). In response to Lubbock’s allegation of plagiarism against him (see letter to J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker 17 February 1875
Summary
Lyell very ill.
No two specimens of Glaucium are alike.
Lord Henry [Lennox] still burkes JDH’s application.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 14–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9860 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … in transit and died (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 February [1875] and n. 5). John …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 February [1875] and n. 9. St …
- … Callandar . On the ‘row’, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 February [1875] and n. 4. When …
- … Anne Huxley . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 February [1875] and n. 7. Alphonse de …
From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1862]
Summary
Wife’s health improved by trip.
Heer’s collections convince JDH that Miocene vegetation was Himalayan, not American, as Heer supposed.
Zurich promises to be a good natural history school.
Review of Natural History Review in Parthenon [1 (1862): 373–5].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 171, DAR 101: 48–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3665 |
From J. D. Hooker [23–5 March 1862]
Summary
Identifies Calanthe masuca.
Asa Gray would not quarrel with them – "snubbing from us may have done him more good than our sympathy".
If CD means the old Vaucher, he was considered a very accurate, acute, able observer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23–5 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3483 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1864]
Summary
Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 262–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4708 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Charles Victor Naudin . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] and nn. 3 and …
- … letter and the letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and 10 December [1864] ; the …
- … DAR 166: 265. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] . See letter to J. …
- … Hooker’s ongoing discussion of the controversy, see, for example, the letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1864] and nn. 10 …
- … J. D. Hooker, 3 December 1864 . Hooker refers to the letter from the art critic John Ruskin that appeared in the Reader , 3 December 1864, p. 710. Ruskin had written in response to a letter from the geologist Joseph Beete Jukes that was printed in the issue of 26 November, p. 678. Ruskin and Jukes took different sides in a long-running controversy over the formation of mountain lakes and valleys by glaciers (see also letter from Joseph Beete Jukes, 10 …
From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858]
Summary
At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: E1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2367 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 December 1862]
Summary
"Throttled off" Welwitschia paper at Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 1–48].
Has read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).
Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3856 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1866]
Summary
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 118–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5302 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to Hooker on 5 December 1866 (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 5 December [1866] and 10 …
- … between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] . In 1866, the …
- … J. D. Hooker 5 December [1866] and n. 3). Abrus precatorius and Rhynchosia precatoria have very similar-looking black and red seeds. CD sent specimens of the red and black seeds with his letter to Hooker of 5 December [1866] . He sent the crimson seeds to Hooker with his letter of 10 …
From J. D. Hooker [11 June 1864]
Summary
CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.
JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.
Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 June 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4529 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . In 1864, the Saturday …
- … June [1864] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and n. 17. Hooker refers to …
- … Harvey, 19 May 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . The Hookers visited …
- … J. D. Hooker [29 July 1864] . Hooker refers to John Scott . See letter from John Scott, 8 June 1864 and letter from John Scott, 10 …
- … J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1864 ). See enclosure. In his letter of 19 May 1864 , Harvey had described a specimen of the common dandelion with achenes that had ‘changed their form “ generically ’”. CD asked Hooker to examine the case in his letter of 10 …
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1861] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter from …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] , and letter from J. …
- … war with Hooker (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1866] ). Hooker visited Down from 23 to 25 June 1866; his wife, Frances Harriet Hooker , visited from 23 to 29 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Henrietta Emma Darwin was in France (see letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c. 10 …
From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1869
Summary
Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.
Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.
F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 18–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6800 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 10–12 naturalists I then knew there—but what an old man it made of me! Ever yrs affec | J D Hooker …
- … Andersson. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 June [1869] and nn. 10 and 11. See letter to …
- … 10. Hooker also refers to Theodore Minet Haultain . James Hector . Hooker refers to Alfred Russel Wallace and Wallace 1869a , 1: 227–30. Hooker refers to George Bentham and Bentham 1869b . See letter to J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1862
Summary
JDH admits he wrote Gardeners’ Chronicle and Natural History Review articles on orchids [Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863, 910; Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6].
JDH’s objections to CD’s idea of how Greenland was repopulated. Temperate Greenland has as Arctic a flora as Arctic Greenland – a fact of astounding force. Why should certain Scandinavian species be absent? Migration by sea-currents can no more account for the present distribution in Greenland than can special creation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 68–9, 73–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3797 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 March 1867
Summary
Sends Naudin’s letter.
Pangenesis.
Benjamin Clarke is mad.
Interested in CD’s Ipomoea experiment.
Scott’s experiments are all in CD’s favour.
Clarifies a sentence in "Insular floras".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 147–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5449 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1871
Summary
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8117 |
letter | (158) |
Hooker, J. D. | |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (156) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (158) |
Darwin, C. R. | (156) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |