From J. D. Hooker 4 February 1867
Summary
Has declined Presidency of BAAS.
Relation of insular and continental genera will always be difficult problem.
On Providence and the "continuity theory".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 138–142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5390 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1867]
Summary
Rejoices over baby’s improvement.
Horace Darwin has intermittent fever.
Thanks JDH for page of the Farmer, a great service.
R. Trail’s potato grafting case would be of extreme value for demonstrating Pangenesis. [See Variation 1: 395.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5485 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867
Summary
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5683 |
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- … Huxley’s daughters, Jessie, Marian, Rachel, Nettie, or Ethel, had scarlet fever. On the ‘law of the conditions of existence’, see Origin , p. 206. Hooker’s source was probably George Bentham , who was working on the Umbelliferae for Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 4 February 1867 ). The umbellifer endemic to St Helena is Sium helenianum ( Hemsley 1885 , 2: 68–9); Sium is represented in South Africa by a single species, S. thunbergii ( W. H. …
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