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 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … November and December 1862; the lectures were published as T. H. Huxley 1863a . See …
- … letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [12 January 1862] . T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 55–67. Huxley’s discussion of …
- … Kölreuter 1761–6 ). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and Correspondence …
- … vol. 10, Appendix VI. T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 29–52. CD refers particularly to pages …
- … to a non-geologist. See letters to T. H. Huxley, 7 December [1862] and n. 7, and 18 …
- … 1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 153–6. While arguing that ‘ …
- … There is a lightly annotated copy of T. H. Huxley 1863a in the Darwin Library–CUL (see …
- … that were sterile with one another ( T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 146–50). CD, by contrast, …
- … 12 January 1863] , and letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n. 4. Letter from …
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: 5 hits
- … however, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] . T. H. Huxley 1863a . See …
- … letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n. 2. …
- … T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 83–157. Hooker refers to the historian Henry Thomas Buckle , …
- … 7 March [1862] ). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n. 4. In his letter …
- … Huxley’s lectures [ Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, …
From J. D. Hooker [15 January 1863]
Summary
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3919 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Huxley’s six lectures to working men ( T. H. Huxley 1863a ) delivered at the Museum of …
- … with Huxley about ‘overdoing sterility’ (see T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 146–50). …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and nn. 5–9, and Correspondence …
- … vol. 10, letters to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] and 28 December [1862] , and …
- … VI. There is an annotated copy of T. H. Huxley 1863a in the Darwin Library–CUL (see …
- … 1862 in the Darwin Library– Down. T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 153–6. In his letter to …
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 108–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4011 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [March 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4039 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 March 1863]
Summary
JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 117–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4040 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1863]
Summary
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3898 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] and n. 7. T. H. Huxley and Owen had maintained a deep-seated …
- … Correspondence vol. 8, letter to T. H. Huxley, 9 April [1860] . There is an annotated …
- … H. Review & mark Owen’s whole conduct. — I could not get to sleep till past 3 last night from indignation. Thinking over his conduct in this case, in the Brain-case & towards Mantell Nasmyth, Huxley, …
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … s Man’s place in nature ( T. H. Huxley 1863b ), and a pseudonymous letter to the editor …
- … H. Darwin, [before 11 May 1863]. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [13 May 1863] and n. 25. John Edward Gray was the keeper of the zoological collections at the British Museum . The first number of the Anthropological Review appeared in May 1863 and carried an anonymous review of Thomas Henry Huxley’ …
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1863
Summary
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 163–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4306 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 March 1863]
Summary
John Lubbock’s lecture on man a success [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1863): 29–40].
JDH on the effect of the Civil War on Asa Gray.
JDH’s opinion of Lyell on glaciers is improving.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 111–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4019 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … H. Mill 1646 , p. 161). In a letter published in the Athenæum on 28 February 1863, p. 297, George Rolleston criticised at length three of the statements made in a letter by Richard Owen that appeared in the Athenæum on 21 February 1863, pp. 262–3. Owen’s letter was a protest concerning the manner in which he felt his long-standing dispute with Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 387); he refers to examinations for admission to the Army Medical Service, held at Chelsea Hospital in February 1863 (see Statistical, Sanitary, and Medical Reports 5 (1865): 582–3, and letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hooker also refers to C. Lyell 1863a . CD had apparently sent Hooker Asa Gray’s letter of 9 February 1863; this letter has not been found, but an indication of its contents is given by CD’s reply ( letter to Asa Gray, 20 March [1863] ), and by the letter to H. …
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Huxley . The Reader was a weekly journal reviewing literary and scientific works. The journal, which was issued for the first time on Saturday 3 January 1863, was liberal, religiously neutral, and had a circulation of about 1,000 (Ellegard 1990, Sullivan ed. 1984). CD began subscribing to the Reader by April 1863 (see letter to H. …
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
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