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From J. D. Hooker   26 November 1862

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Returns Asa Gray letter. Gray has made a great blunder in his criticism of Oliver: he mistakes perpetuation of a variety for "propagation of variation". Confusion between "action of physical causes" and "effects of physical causes". Neither crossing nor natural selection has made so many divergent individuals, but simply variation. "If once you hold that natural selection can create a character your whole doctrine tumbles to the ground." CD’s failure to convey this, and the false doctrine that "like produces like" is at bottom of half the scientific infidelity to CD’s doctrine. There is something to the objection that CD has made a deus ex machina of natural selection since he neglects to dwell on the facts of infinite incessant variations.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 61–2, 77–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3831

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  • … 24 [November 1862] . CD, Hooker, and Charles Lyell had corresponded extensively on this …
  • … 5 June [1860] , and 12 [June 1860] , letters from Charles Lyell , 15 June 1860  and 30  …
  • … September 1860 , and letters to Charles Lyell , 6 June [1860] , 14 [June 1860] , 17 June [ …
  • … also Correspondence vol.  9, letter to Charles Lyell, 21 August [1861] . For Lyell’s view …

From J. D. Hooker   17 March 1862

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JDH has probably influenced Bates by pointing out applicability of CD’s views to his cases.

Is greatly puzzled by difference in effect of external conditions on individual animals and plants. Cannot conceive that climate could affect even such a single character as a hooked seed.

Does not think Huxley is right about "saltus".

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Mar 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 23–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3474

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  • … plants of Madeira in the letter to Charles Lyell, [15 September 1861] ( Correspondence …
  • … Correspondence vol.   8, letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [and 19 February 1860] , and letters …
  • … from J.   D. Hooker, [24 July 1862] ). Charles Lyell invited Heer, whom he considered ‘the …

From J. D. Hooker   [26 February 1862?]

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Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.

Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26 Feb 1862?]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3455

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  • … duke of Argyll), Richard Owen , and Charles Lyell . Charles Kingsley also provided an …

To J. D. Hooker   [after 26] November [1862]

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Discusses differences between Asa Gray’s view and his own on crossing. A common effect is the obliteration of incipient varieties. There is heavy evidence against new characters arising from crossing wild forms, "only intermediate races are then produced". Innate vital forces are somehow led to act differently as a result of direct effect of physical conditions. Astonished by JDH’s statement that every difference might have occurred without selection. CD agrees, but JDH’s manner of putting it astonished him. CD says, "think of each of a thousand seeds bringing forth its plant, and then each a thousand … I cannot even grapple with idea". Responds to JDH’s and Lyell’s feeling that he made too much of a deus ex machina out of natural selection. [Letter actually dated 20 Nov but is certainly after 3831.] [wrong field?]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [after 26] Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 172
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3834

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  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 12 [December 1862] . Charles Lyell . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 26  …
  • … but see Correspondence vol.  9, letter to Charles Lyell, 21 August [1861] . CD had resumed …

From J. D. Hooker   [7 April 1862]

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Will hope to be able to send Vanilla flowers in a day or two.

How is CD after his tremendous effect on the placid Linneans? ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70; read 3 Apr 1862.]

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [7 Apr 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3495

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  • … Society of London on 3 April 1862 (see letter to Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] and n.  5). …

To J. D. Hooker   4 November [1862]

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Cannot see how J. W. Dawson can accuse JDH of asserting a subsidence of Arctic America. Much of evidence for subsidence during glacial period will prove false as it largely rests on ice action which is more and more viewed as subaerial.

Dawson is biased against Darwinism.

Suggests Greenland may have been repopulated after glacial period extinguished flora, by migration in sea-currents.

Max Müller’s view of origin of language is weakest part of his book [see 3752].

Would like to examine the rare Cypripedium hirsutissimum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 168
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3795

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  • … 5 September [1862] , and letter to Charles Lyell, 14 October [1862] ). See letter from …
  • … not been identified; however, CD and Charles Lyell discussed Dawson’s reaction to Origin …

From J. D. Hooker   2 July 1862

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Will see to Masdevallia and Bonatea.

Domestic matters.

Lyell’s health.

CD’s eczema.

Hopes CD will solve the mystery of Melastoma.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 July 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 44–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3636

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  • … We have just heard from Lady Lyell— Sir Charles is not well enough to go to Eastbourne on …
  • … June 1862] . Marion Bell . Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell resided at 53 Harley Street, …

To J. D. Hooker   9 May [1862]

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Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.

Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.

"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".

Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  9 May [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3541

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  • … s diary (DAR 242) records that CD was in London from 6 to 9 May 1862. Charles Lyell . …

From J. D. Hooker   10 July 1862

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JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.

Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.

Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.

JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 July 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 46–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3651

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  • … Correspondence vol.  6, letter from Charles Lyell, [16 January 1857] ); the Lower Lias is …
  • Lyell’s response to the prospect of an evolutionary ancestry for man. British Journal for the History of Science 6 (1972–3): 261–303. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles

To J. D. Hooker   [10–]12 November [1862]

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So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.

Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.

Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.

Is working on cultivated plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [10–]12 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 169
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3801

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  • … Tyndall 1862  has not been identified. Charles Lyell’s book, Antiquity of man ( C.  Lyell  …

To J. D. Hooker   25 February [1862]

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Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;

JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.

Serious erratum in paper.

New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  25 Feb [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 144
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3458

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  • … and Correspondence vol.  7, letter to Charles Lyell, 26 April [1858] ). J.  D.  Hooker  …

From J. D. Hooker   [24 July 1862]

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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

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  • … Correspondence vol.  6, letters to Charles Lyell , 16 [June 1856] and 25 June [1856] ). …

From J. D. Hooker   2 November 1862

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Stupefied by CD’s five forms of Lythrum.

Asa Gray busy with Cypripedium. JDH offers some to CD if he wants to challenge Gray.

J. W. Dawson’s review of JDH’s paper on Arctic plants.

Louis Lucien Bonaparte’s views on Basque and Finnish language [Langue basque et langues finnoises (1862)] suggest to JDH that Basques are Finns left behind after the glacial period, like the Arctic plants!

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 66–7, 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3792

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  • … is in the Darwin Library–CUL. Charles Lyell . James Hector was surgeon and geologist to …

From J. D. Hooker   [25 January 1862]

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Will send an Arethusa; offers other specimens.

Dimorphism.

Falconer contradicts Sumatra and Ceylon elephant story.

Lyell as rabid as ever about America.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [25 Jan 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 6–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3394

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  • … Hooker, 16 January [1862] ). Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell were supporters of the Union …

From J. D. Hooker   25 October 1862

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Has sent Masdevallia and other plants.

J. J. F. W. v. Parrot’s Ararat [(1834), trans. W. D. Cooley, in The world surveyed in the XIXth century, vol. 1 (1845)] refreshing in its simple faith in the ark.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Oct 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 64–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3780

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  • … in 1845 ( Parrot 1845 ). Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, …

From J. D. Hooker   16 September 1862

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Wife’s health better.

Visited Duke of Argyll.

Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.

Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Sept 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 56–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3725

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  • … of the Royal Commission on Herring , pp.  167–70). Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell . …

From J. D. Hooker   [19 January 1862]

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JDH castigates the Americans after the Trent affair. The value of an aristocracy. How will CD answer Asa Gray’s letter?

His "remarkable plant" [Welwitschia mirabilis] exhibited at Linnean Society.

Genera plantarum is in press.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [19 Jan 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 8–11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3395

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  • … 1862] . Hooker refers to Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell and Frances Harriet Hooker . …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition

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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…

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  • … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …