To J. D. Hooker 11 June [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of Mrs Hooker’s health and domestic problems. Wishes natural selection had produced neuters who would not flirt or marry.
Will be eager to hear Cameroon results.
Wishes JDH would discuss the "mundane glacial period". Still believes it will be "the turning point of all recent geographical distribution".
Pollen placed for 65 hours on apparent (CD still thinks real) stigma of Leschenaultia has not protruded a vestige of a tube.
"Oliver the omniscient" has produced an article in Botanische Zeitung with accurate account of all CD saw in Viola.
Asa Gray’s "red-hot" praise of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3597 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1862]
Summary
Wife’s health improved by trip.
Heer’s collections convince JDH that Miocene vegetation was Himalayan, not American, as Heer supposed.
Zurich promises to be a good natural history school.
Review of Natural History Review in Parthenon [1 (1862): 373–5].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 171, DAR 101: 48–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3665 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.
Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.
"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".
Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3541 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1862
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 52–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3690 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 [June 1862]
Summary
Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.
Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3611 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 June [1862]
Summary
Has been ill (violent skin inflammation).
Has done hardly anything except tend to his experiments. Repeating Primula work has verified former results and very curious facts on sterility of homomorphic seedlings.
Wonders who reviewed Orchids for London Review & Wkly J. Polit..
Asa Gray also infatuated with Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3620 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 March [1862]
Summary
On effect of external conditions: CD thinks all variability due to changes in conditions of life because there is more variability under unnatural domestic conditions than under nature, and changed conditions affect the reproductive organs. But why one seedling out of thousands presents some new character transcends the wildest powers of conjecture.
Not shaken by "saltus" – he had examined all cases of normal structure resembling monstrosities which appear per saltum. Has fought his tendency to attribute too much to natural selection; perhaps he has too much conquered it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3479 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 July [1862]
Summary
Illness of his son [Leonard]. Has done no work for weeks.
JDH’s hybrid orchids are interesting; CD is surprised many hybrids are not produced.
George [Darwin] caught a moth sucking Gymnadenia conopsea with a pollen-mass of Habenaria bifolia sticking to it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3666 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1861]
Summary
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 June [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3190 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 May 1862]
Summary
Leschenaultia seems very odd. Will try with pollen left on for 48 hours. Illustrates diversity of structures for same purpose.
Bentham’s and Oliver’s good opinion of Orchids is reassuring.
Anxious to experiment on Melastomataceae; thinks it will give important results.
Wants Leschenaultia formosa to try whether viscid outside surface can be fertilised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3558 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [August 1862]
Summary
Lythrum. Wants to examine fresh flowers of Lythraceae. Lythrum salicaria has interested him very much.
Microscopes.
Asks whether JDH can think of plants that have different coloured anthers or pollen in same flowers (as in Melastoma) or on same and in different plants as in Lythrum. Would be a safe guide to dimorphism.
Observation of action of pollen in Linum grandiflorum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3696 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1862]
Summary
Thanks for opinion on Drosera. After working for a time on a subject he is absolutely incapable of judging its value.
Has found a case in Lythrum of a necessary triple alliance between three hermaphrodites; the strangest case of propagation recorded among plants or animals.
Asks for L. thymifolia to see how a trimorphic form passes or graduates into dimorphic.
Questions JDH on Linum perenne.
Has found 33 hybrids in one field between Verbascum thapsus and V. lychnitis. The perfect series of varieties would have justified running the species together, but every one of the intermediate forms is sterile.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3753 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [November 1862]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter: "nearly as mad as ever in our English eyes".
Bates’s paper is admirable. The act of segregation of varieties into species was never so plainly brought forth.
CD is a little sorry that his present work is leading him to believe rather more in the direct action of physical conditions. Regrets it because it lessens the glory of natural selection and is so confoundedly doubtful.
JDH laid too much stress on importance of crossing with respect to origin of species; but certainly it is important in keeping forms stable.
If only Owen could be excluded from Council of Royal Society Falconer would be good to put in. CD must come down to London to see what he can do.
Falconer’s article in Journal of the Geological Society [18 (1862): 348–69] shows him coming round on permanence of species, but he does not like natural selection.
Sends Lythrum salicaria diagram.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 [Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 173, 279b; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Hooker letters 2: 46 JDH/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3822 |
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- … see ibid. , ,letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, [3–]4 …
- … 1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] ). However, he also began to suspect additional differences in the pollen of the mid-styled form, and after making almost 100 crosses in 1862, he was determined to make more in 1863 (see ibid. , letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [October 1862] and nn. 11 and 12, letter to W. E. Darwin, …
To J. D. Hooker 25 February [1862]
Summary
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3458 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 March [1862]
Summary
Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray.
Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to see JDH’s to Bates. Point raised in it is most difficult. "There is one clear line of distinction; – when many parts of structure as in woodpecker show distinct adaptation to external bodies, it is preposterous to attribute them to effect of climate etc. – but when a single point, alone, as a hooked seed, it is conceivable that it may thus have arisen." His study of orchids shows nearly all parts of the flower co-adapted for fertilisation by insects and therefore the result of natural selection. Mormodes ignea "is a prodigy of adaptation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3472 |
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To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1864]
Summary
CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.
Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.
W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 238a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4525 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1877]
Summary
Requests seeds for study of movement in cotyledons. Would love to study Welwitschia cotyledons.
Son William is to be married 28 November.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Nov [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 459–60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11226 |
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- … 1862 and Correspondence vol. 10. CD’s son-in-law, Richard Buckley Litchfield , had been taken ill with appendicitis in Switzerland in September 1877 ( letter from Emma Darwin to H. E. Litchfield, [13 September 1877] (DAR 219.9: 155); Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 227). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), he and his wife, Henrietta Emma Litchfield , arrived at Down on Thursday 8 November. William married Sara Sedgwick on 29 (not 28) November ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); he had originally given the date as 28 November ( letter from W. E. …
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1864
Summary
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4692 |
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