From J. D. Hooker 10 June 1863
Summary
JDH lays hard treatment of John Scott to J. H. Balfour’s anti-Darwinism.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 149–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4210 |
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- … Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary philosophy in abstract terms, and the remaining four parts, published between 1863 and 1896 ( DNB ), dealt with its application to biology, psychology, sociology, and morality. There is a copy of Spencer 1860–2 in the Darwin Library–CUL; the last two numbers are uncut. See also n. 11, …
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1868]
Summary
Review in Athenæum full of contempt. Is sure Owen wrote it [see 5931].
Gardeners’ Chronicle review [(1868): 184] favourable.
Fears Pangenesis is still-born. Cites Bates, Spencer, Lubbock, and Sir Henry Holland. Is sure Pangenesis will sometime reappear. Questions that are connected and answered by Pangenesis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 52–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5918 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 November [1866]
Summary
Requests roots of two species of Mirabilis for "a curious experiment in crossing".
Has subscribed £10 to Jamaica committee to prosecute Governor Eyre.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5281 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [10 July 1865]
Summary
Health very bad. All scientific work stopped for 2½ months.
E. B. Tylor’s Early history of mankind [1865] impresses him.
Would like JDH’s opinion of last number of Spencer’s [Principles of] Biology [vol. 1 (1864)], especially on umbellifers. CD not satisfied with Spencer’s views on irregular flowers.
ED reports on CD’s health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 272 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4868 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
