To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1859]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on finishing his introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
Lyell’s position on mutability appears more positive in his letters to JDH than in those to CD. Considers JDH a convert.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Oct 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2509 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1858]
Summary
Writing section on large and small genera [for Natural selection, ch. 4].
Huxley supersedes Owen on parthenogenesis.
Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Mar [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2248 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2042 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1857]
Summary
Species with marked varieties.
Dana’s pamphlet also too metaphysical for CD.
Natural selection chapter on hybridism completed.
Doubts JDH will resist theory in his introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2194 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857]
Summary
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 20 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2033 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 9[–10] November [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9[–10] Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2355 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1857] and 14 [November 1857] ). CD had previously suggested Albany Hancock for a Royal Medal (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to T. H. Huxley, …
- … 1857]). In 1858, Hancock was awarded one of the Royal Medals for his ‘numerous and varied contributions to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, but more especially for his “Researches on the Organization of the Brachiopoda ”’ ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 9 (1857–9): 518). CD had nominated John Obadiah Westwood and John Richardson for Royal Medals in 1855 and 1856, respectively. See Correspondence vol. 5, letter to T. H. Huxley, …
To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1858]
Summary
On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2201 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … H. Huxley, 23 October [1858] and 3 November [1858] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 November [1858] ). CD refers to the speech to be made at the presentation of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal to Charles Lyell at the anniversary meeting on 30 November 1858 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 9 (1857– …
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