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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Lyell 1863a (see letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 and n. 13). The postscript …
- … vol. 7). See letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 35. The reference is to Hugh …
- … refuge’. See also letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 27. See Correspondence …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [15 March 1863] . See letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] . See …
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 12–13 March [1863] . See letter from Charles Lyell, 11 …
- … 1863 . See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] . See letter from Charles Lyell, …
- … 1863, pp. 331–2), Lyell quoted what Owen had written on the subject in that paper, commenting that Owen ‘must surely have forgotten his own words’. See also letter to Charles Lyell, …
- … 1863) . There are annotated copies of this work in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] . In his letter, Hooker promised to send CD his copy of the Athenæum for 7 March 1863, if it contained, as expected, Charles Lyell’ …
From J. D. Hooker [13 May 1863]
Summary
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 137–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4165 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 5544). See also n. 25, above, and letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] and n. 16. …
- … See letter to Charles Lyell, [7 May 1863] , nn. 5 and 6. See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … 1863). CD enclosed the letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 , with his letter to Hooker of [9 May 1863] . Charles Lyell ; …
- … 1863] . CD and Hooker had frequently debated these theories on the origin of island plants and animals over many years (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [30 December 1861 or 6 January 1862] and n. 7, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 November [1862] and n. 6). Hugh Falconer and Charles Lyell . …
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … n. 9, below, and letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 35. In chapter 21, ‘On …
- … Grayson 1985 . See also letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] and n. 17. Hooker’s …
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 [March 1863] and letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 and n. 13. …
- … 1863] ). Hooker apparently refers to his letter to CD of [1 March 1863] , in which he criticised Charles Lyell’ …
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 May 1863]
Summary
Flora of Cameroons shakes JDH’s faith in ability to explain past or present migrations. Sees need for a major novel explanation such as natural selection, glacial cold, or continental connections.
Lyell in a bad way about feud with Falconer.
JDH’s opinion of Wallace, Bates, J. E. Gray, Owen, Asa Gray, Lubbock, and Bentham.
Bentham’s Linnean Society address [see 4118].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 143–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4169 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Lyell 1863a ; see letter to Charles Lyell, [7 May 1863] , nn. 5 and 6). Hooker probably …
- … since the beginning of April 1863 (see letter to Charles Lyell, [7 May 1863] and n. 5). …
- … 1863] and n. 11). Frederick Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin had proposed making a collecting trip to the Galápagos Islands (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [8 May 1863] ). CD had written to encourage them (see letter to Osbert Salvin, 11 [May 1863] ). Hugh Falconer and Charles Lyell …
To J. D. Hooker [9 May 1863]
Summary
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4148 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 296–301). See also letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] . The reference is to the squib …
- … of 20 April 1863 . CD discussed variation and design in his letters to Charles Lyell , [1 …
- … 1863] . This discussion formed part of an ongoing debate between CD and Hooker on the causal factors responsible for the geographical distribution of plants and animals (see, especially, Correspondence vols. 3 and 6). See letter to Charles Lyell, [ …
- … 1863] (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). Letter to Athenæum , 5 May [1863]. Letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 . Asa Gray had sent this letter in an envelope addressed to Hooker; Hooker read part of it before he realised it was for CD, and forwarded it to him (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7 May 1863] ). The reference is to Charles Lyell’ …
From J. D. Hooker [2]9 June 1863
Summary
JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.
CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].
JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".
[Dated 9 June by JDH.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2]9 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 147–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4224 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Lyell 1863a (see letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). The Guards’ ball, described by …
- … 1863] and 25 [August 1863] , letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] , and letter from Asa Gray, 1 September 1863 . The reference is to George Bentham’s anniversary address, delivered before the Linnean Society on 25 May 1863 ( Bentham 1863 ; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [June 1863] and n. 9). See also letters from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1863 and [13 May 1863] . Charles Lyell . …
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 |
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 [13 November 1863]
Summary
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4341 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
To J. D. Hooker [20–]22 February [1864]
Summary
Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.
Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.
Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?
Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20–]22 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 221a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4412 |
To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Hooker, [23 February 1863] and n. 7. Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell had been invited to …
- … 1863] . In his letter of [23 February 1863] , Hooker asked CD for his reaction to the letter published by Richard Owen in the Athenæum , 21 February 1863, pp. 262–3, objecting to remarks made by Charles Lyell …
- … 1863, but CD became ill with ‘much sickness & weakness’, and was obliged to retract the invitation (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ). See letter to Charles Lyell, 4 [February 1863] . CD gave his full reaction to C. Lyell 1863a in his letter to Charles Lyell, …
To J. D. Hooker 23 April [1863]
Summary
Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.
Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.
Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4122 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1863] . Hugh Falconer’s letter in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459–60, criticised Charles Lyell …
- … 1863] . Lyell published a letter replying to Falconer’s (see Athenæum , 18 April 1863, pp. 523–5, and n. 7, above), in which he quoted (pp. 523–4) from Falconer’s letter (see n. 7, above): ‘I now invite Sir Charles Lyell , …
To J. D. Hooker 3 August [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4261 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 September 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 240–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4616 |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Hooker, J. D. | (24) |
Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
Hooker, J. D. |
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …