To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1864]
Summary
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 255a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4697 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 November 1864]
Summary
JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.
Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.
Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].
JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Nov 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 254–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4667 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased that Bentham is cautious about Naudin’s view of reversion. CD can show experimentally that crossing of races and species tends to bring back ancient characters.
Suggests Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung [1849] be translated
and that Oliver review Scott’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] for a future issue of Natural History Review.
Is working on Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 249a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4612 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … with the letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] and nn. 11, 13, and 14. See enclosure to …
- … 11, Appendix V, for CD’s views on the importance and reliability of Gärtner’s work. The Ray Society was established in 1844 with the object of publishing important works of natural history that were unlikely to prove commercially profitable ( Curle 1954 , p. 2). Scott 1864a . See also letter to Asa Gray, …
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1864]
Summary
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4461 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased with news of BAAS meeting
and Scott’s possible position as Thomas Anderson’s curator.
Suggests Wallace is due for a Royal Medal.
Agrees with JDH’s criticism of Lyell’s address [see 4614].
Bentham’s Linnean Society address treats continuity of life in a vague non-natural sense.
Rereading his old MS [Natural selection] CD is impressed with work he had already done.
Writing Variation much harder than Climbing plants.
Encloses request to JDH to propose, or suggest on his behalf, that the Ray Society publish a translation of C. F. von Gärtner’s Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 14; DAR 115: 250a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4621 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1864]
Summary
Requests climbing plants.
Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4517 |
To J. D. Hooker [27 January 1864]
Summary
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 Jan 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4398 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1864]
Summary
Asks JDH to verify an observation on Dicentra – what CD thought was a branch in the young plant now looks like a gigantic leaf in the old.
Concurs on Spencer’s clever emptiness.
Ramsay exaggerates role of ice. Sorry to hear that Tyndall grows dogmatic.
Admits difficulty of making case for Wallace’s Royal Medal at this time.
Will soon finish the first draft of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4650 |
From J. D. Hooker [16? October 1864]
Summary
Morphological differences only partly define species; physiological differences, e.g., incompatibility results in Primula, are far more interesting.
T. Thomson’s review of Agardh’s muddled book ["Agardh’s classification of plants", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 536–51].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16? Oct 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 246, 246a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4638 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1864
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 230–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4552 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Asa Gray, 29 July 1864 , Gray Herbarium of Harvard University). Hooker gave up his examinership at London University in 1864; he did not resign as examiner in botany for the Indian army medical service until the following year (L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 537). Hooker collected Wedgwood ware and was particularly interested in medallions (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 December 1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, …
To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1864]
Summary
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Aug 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 242a, 242c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4576 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Asa Gray of 29 July 1864 , Hooker wrote: ‘I spent last Sunday with Darwin. He is much better but very thin. He saw me for 10 ’ each time almost a dozen times during the day— he is very busy with his climbing plants’ (Gray Herbarium of Harvard University). The enclosure has not been found. William Hugh Gower , a foreman at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, had assisted Hooker in selecting and supplying plants for CD’s hothouse (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Asa Gray, 16 February 1864 . Most of the letter is in the hand of Emma Darwin ; only the paragraph headed ‘ Sunday morning —’ was written by CD; it is in pencil. In November 1863, Alfred Newton made available to CD the foot of a red-legged partridge ( Caccabis rufa ) with a ball of earth attached containing seeds (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
To J. D. Hooker [10 and 12 January 1864]
Summary
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 and 12 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4389 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). CD tended to misspell ‘agrarian’ (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 January [1859] ). See n. 6, above. CD also expressed his interest in the spreading of European species to other continents in his letter to Julius von Haast of 22 January 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11). …
To J. D. Hooker 5 April [1864]
Summary
Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.
CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 227a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4450 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Asa Gray and Henry Trimen ( Mohl 1863 , Treviranus 1863a and 1863c, Alefeld 1863 , Scott 1863a , Hildebrand 1863a , Gray 1863c , Trimen 1863 ). Oliver noted that the papers reviewed were ‘suggested by the researches of Mr. Darwin’ ( [Oliver] 1864 , p. 243 n. ). There is an unbound copy of the Natural History Review , April 1864, in the Darwin Library–CUL; [Oliver] 1864a (pp. 243–8) is annotated. See also Correspondence vol. 11, …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [May 1864]
Summary
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Asa Gray of 1 July [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD also expressed his suspicion that Naudin had not read Gärtner’s or Kölreuter’s work regarding hybrid sterility. After reading Naudin 1858 , CD noted that if Naudin had not protected his plants adequately from insects that could pollinate the hybrids with pollen from the parent species, he might have mistaken this cross-pollination with reversion to the parent type (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] and n. 11). …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 12 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4426 |
letter | (17) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |