To J. D. Hooker [December 1846 – January 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [Dec 1846 – Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1036 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1845]
Summary
JDH’s books have arrived safely.
Is sending him corrected MS of first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.].
Lyells have just visited.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-864 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1864
Summary
Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.
Will CD sit for Woolner?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 234–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4600 |
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 |
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- … prove malice or a perverse intention on Lyells part to crush him (as Owen tried to crush …
- … can be made for Lubbocks not quoting Lyells correspondence,—Lyell may fairly attribute …
- … s resent. You never agreed with me about the Lyells position respecting their Scientific …
- … in the same street for years with the Lyells’, & never otherwise noticed by them. — His …
- … who is invited to the house & so forth—but Lady Lyells Soirees are quasi public. — Every …
- … CD and Hooker has been found in which the Lyells’ position respecting their scientific …
From J. D. Hooker 3 July 1871
Summary
Plans to write an account of his trip to Morocco and, with John Ball, the botanical geography, for Linnean Society.
Results mainly negative; the Atlas exhibits "the dying out of European flora".
Only two or three beetles above 8000ft.
Disappointed that Canary Island species are absent from Atlas mountains; but an ocean current along Moroccan coast should help migration of Spanish, Portuguese, and Moroccan seeds to Canaries and Madeira.
Describes Lyell’s poor physical condition. Asks CD for his observations of symptoms.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 69–70, DAR 205.2 (Letters): 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7848 |
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- … find that you were in London when I was at Lyells yesterday week— Lyell never told me of …
- … tell me that she had seen your’s at the H Lyells the previous night. Well, here I am back, …
- … you write—if you have any opinion as to Lyells case different from mine, please tell me …
- … before you go North. I am much puzzled with Lyells state, & cling to the hope that it is a …
From J. D. Hooker [25 January 1862]
Summary
Will send an Arethusa; offers other specimens.
Dimorphism.
Falconer contradicts Sumatra and Ceylon elephant story.
Lyell as rabid as ever about America.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3394 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 February 1866
Summary
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 59, 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5013 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 March 1863]
Summary
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2027 |
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- … for it, but what can one do—? I do think Lyells first XII chapters a complete mess. Oliver …
- … D Hooker I hope I am not too severe on Lyells first Chapters— the state of case is thus. — …
- … skimmed III–X & was struck with the appearances of Lyells want of faith in all Prestwichs …
- … observations & facts—till ratified by his (Lyells) going down to spot & examining for …
From J. D. Hooker 13 February 1868
Summary
Rejoices over news of Variation sales.
Pall Mall Gazette review [7 (1868): 555, 636, 652] is undoubtedly by G. H. Lewes [see 5951].
Dinner at Lyells’.
Dean Stanley favours a monument to Faraday in Westminster Abbey.
Perceval Wright is back from Seychelles and reports on plants he collected.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5874 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 August 1856
Summary
JDH’s arguments against transmutation: 1. Plants do not show the confusion he would expect; 2. Under clearly similar physical conditions we do not find same species.
JDH’s argument against migration: commonality of alpine species. Believes migration opposes facts of botanical distribution in Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand; prefers continental extension theory.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 100–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1937 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 October 1862
Summary
Has sent Masdevallia and other plants.
J. J. F. W. v. Parrot’s Ararat [(1834), trans. W. D. Cooley, in The world surveyed in the XIXth century, vol. 1 (1845)] refreshing in its simple faith in the ark.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 64–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3780 |
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- … ark being still under the snow! Wife saw Lyells yesterday all well. Ever yours affec | J D …
To J. D. Hooker [28 March 1868]
Summary
Defers visit [to Kew] because of ill health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6062 |
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- … to Kew till Monday, for I am engaged to Lyells on Sunday morning. We go home on Wednesday …
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 108–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4011 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4852 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1862
Summary
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 56–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3725 |
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- … me when you have nothing better to do. Ever Yours affec | J D Hooker How are the Lyells ? …
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 March 1863]
Summary
John Lubbock’s lecture on man a success [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1863): 29–40].
JDH on the effect of the Civil War on Asa Gray.
JDH’s opinion of Lyell on glaciers is improving.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 111–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4019 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 March 1878
Summary
Has been consulting with Mrs Lyell about the possibility of publishing Lyell’s letters. Asks CD’s opinion on the matter.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 107–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11431 |
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- … account. Mrs Lyell has riches & is devoted to Lyells memory, & if good can be done by the …
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859]
Summary
CD hopes Woodward was not the Athenæum reviewer. "The manner in which he drags in immortality, & sets the Priests at me … is base".
JDH has made CD feel he can "face a score of savage reviewers".
H. C. Watson has written to him in tremendous praise of the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2542 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Reviewers. — I suppose you are still with the Lyells—give my kindest remembrances to them. …
letter | (53) |
Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Hooker, J. D. | (20) |
Darwin, C. R. | (53) |
Hooker, J. D. |
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] ): Lyells corrected pages came when I was …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 4 hits
- … sur les Glaciers [Agassiz 1840] —— 30 th Lyells Principles. 3. Vol. 6 th Edit [Lyell …
- … ] all——3 vols.——well abstracted 22 d Lyells Elem. 2 d Edit. [Lyell 1841] d[itt]o.— …
- … 1841–54]. slightly skimmed Miserable Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] …
- … Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. Lyells Elements 5 th . Edit [Lyell …
Visiting the Darwins
Summary
'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … on Saturday— I have appointed next Monday to call on the Lyells; & mean to try & persuade Dr …