From J. D. Hooker [11 May – 3 December 1860]
Summary
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 May – 3 Dec 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3036 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 February 1864
Summary
John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.
Himalayan pine in Macedonia.
JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4401 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Watson’s work on plant geography, see Egerton 1979 , Browne 1983 , pp. 65–8, and DSB . Watson had been a supporter of CD’s theory and a friendly critic of natural selection (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] and n. 7, and Correspondence vol. 8, letter from H. C. …
