From J. D. Hooker [5 February 1872?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [5 Feb 1872?] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 105–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8200 |
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: 4 hits
- … note has not been found. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD had been vomiting …
- … 9 November [1863] , letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 11 November [1863] , and …
- … 31 October 1863 , and letter from Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton, 4 November [1863] . See …
- … Charles Waring Darwin’s fatal attack of scarlet fever and Henrietta Emma ’s attack of …
From J. D. Hooker 25 April 1873
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 155–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8880 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1879]
Summary
Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.
Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.
Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12338 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 April 1866]
Summary
Needs Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris 7 (1830).
Asks that Oliver provide a reference for microscopical appearance and structure of a bud.
Was very well on first part of London visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 287 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5071 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1868]
Summary
CD thought Watson’s article beastly in its criticisms of JDH. Watson’s criticism of CD was not new or important, but fair, so CD could honestly thank him, adding his regret at what was said about JDH.
Is sitting for Woolner bust.
Has read James Croll on alternation of glacial and warmer periods in north and south, which would remove JDH’s objections to cool period extending to equator.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 98–101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6476 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1876]
Summary
Frank, who has been reclusive and very hardworking, is returning from Wales after a period of mourning for Amy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Oct [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 423–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10644 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3784 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Throughout 1860 and 1861, Henrietta Emma Darwin had been ill with a fever diagnosed as a …
- … vols. 8 and 9). On 13 October 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242): ‘Etty …
- … the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, until 11 February 1863 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … as before’. Horace Darwin had been seriously ill earlier in the year, and Emma and Leonard …
From J. D. Hooker [7 April 1873]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 153–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8847 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1867?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Dec 1867?] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5738 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 October 1847]
Summary
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1131 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 March [1869]
Summary
Transmits letter [from Fritz Müller].
Has been asked to permit a French translation of Orchids and Journal of researches.
At work on sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 116-17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6647 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Botanic Gardens, Kew. Frances Harriet Hooker’s letter to Emma Darwin has not been found. …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin . The reference is to the optician and scientific instrument maker, …
- … III , from 15 to 22 May 1862 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and ‘Journal’ ( …
- … Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). The Darwins stayed at the home of Emma’s brother, Josiah Wedgwood …
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1859]
Summary
JDH half through Origin. High praise for facts and reasoning.
Lyell told JDH his criticisms: small matters JDH did not appreciate.
Reactions of G. Bentham, J. S. Henslow, and C. C. Babington.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 137–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2579 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1861]
Summary
Henslow’s long suffering.
Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 May [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3149 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1882
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13613 |
To J. D. Hooker [12] May [1867]
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s address; has sent him Insular floras [pamphlet].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12] May [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5532 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5731 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 December 1875]
Summary
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 401–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10295 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [or 28 September 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 or 28] Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4901 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … D. Hooker, [26 September 1865] and n. 5. Emma Darwin . CD refers to ‘On the phenomena of …
- … 1865] , n. 12). From 22 August 1865, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records CD’s weight at …
- … he curtailed complaining of ill health. Emma Darwin continued the letter, repeating the …
- … Henrietta Emma, and Elizabeth Darwin often read to CD (see letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [ …
- … Darwin, [13 November 1848] ). Anne Elizabeth, CD’s eldest daughter, died in 1851, aged 10 (see Correspondence vol. 5). For more on the effect of her death on CD, see Bowlby 1990 , pp. 291–8, A. Desmond and Moore 1991, pp. 275–87, and R. Keynes 2001 , pp. 180–98. For more on CD’s symptoms brought on by reading, see Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix IV. Emma, …
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