To J. D. Hooker 18 [May 1861]
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Henslow’s death.
What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
Beaton not to be trusted.
CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [May 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3152 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1861]
Summary
Many mutual acquaintances are ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3192 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 February 1845]
Summary
Congratulates JDH and condoles with him on possible position at Edinburgh. Although CD will miss him bitterly, he encourages JDH to view it as a good opportunity.
Sorry to hear that Humboldt is failing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-826 |
From J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker 10 May 1860
Summary
Describes Sedgwick’s attack on CD’s views [at Cambridge Philosophical Society] and his own defence, though he believes CD has pressed his hypothesis too far.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | MS Add. 9537/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2794 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 December 1866]
Summary
Suggests fossil leaves go to Heer.
Agrees with CD on cut pages in books.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Dec 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 129–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5328 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 April 1864]
Summary
JDH has written to J. H. Balfour for a character reference for John Scott.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4448 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 August [1855]
Summary
Morning with H. C. Watson; discussed problems of inferences from buried seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1737 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 September 1864]
Summary
Sends Nepenthes laevis.
Wallace for the Royal Medal is a good thought.
W. H. Harvey is at Kew and JDH has asked him about desert climbers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Sept 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4623 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1867
Summary
His view of CD’s hypothesis that Atlantic island genera are descended from extinct European plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 135–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5372 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1863]
Summary
Encourages CD to continue observations on tendrils.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 152–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4225 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1849
Summary
Physical description of Sikkim mountains.
Travelling through Kinchin snows.
Transported boulders.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1849 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 131–5 JDH/1/10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1219 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 April [1858]
Summary
Asa Gray’s criticism of Buckle and his comments on large and small genera.
CD suspects glacial epoch immensely long. Rates of organic change too variable to make them a good measure of geological time.
Bees’ cells are a difficulty for theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 231 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2254 |
From J. D. Hooker [23] March 1845
Summary
JDH recommends Augustin de Saint-Hilaire’s Leçons de botanique [1841]. Relates opinions of European botanists on migration and plant distribution.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23] Mar 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 41–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-844 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1862]
Summary
Has received Melastoma and Vanilla.
Has seen again the two sets of plants of Heterocentron raised from two lots of pollen from same flower – a marvellous difference in stature.
"But oh Lord what will become of my book on variation: I am involved in a multiplicity of experiments."
Observations on Viola.
CD’s fancied dimorphism of Oxalis is all a confounded mistake; only great variability in length of pistils.
Found Henslow’s life [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow (1862)] interesting but fears the public will think it dull.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3575 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 November 1868]
Summary
Is doing a British Flora [The student’s flora of the British Islands (1870)], for students, more scientific and more complete than former editions.
His opinion of Bentham’s [British] Flora [1858].
On Croll’s extension of glaciers – a huge relief to get rid of simultaneous cooling of the whole globe.
Watson’s garbling of passage in JDH’s Flora Indica is unprincipled.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Nov 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 243–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6484 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1864
Summary
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 208–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4469 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 May [1861]
Summary
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24–5 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3155 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 November 1853]
Summary
Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.
Honoured for Coral reefs
and Cirripedia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Nov 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1539 |
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Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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…
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People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …
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4.5 William Beard, comic painting
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< Back to Introduction In June 1872, Darwin’s friend Asa Gray, the Harvard Professor of Botany, sent him a print or photograph of a comic painting by the American artist William Holbrook Beard. Titled The Youthful Darwin Expounding His Theories, it…
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People featured in the Dutch photograph album
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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…
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ESHS 2018: 19th century scientific correspondence networks
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Sunday 16 September, 16:00-18.00, Institute of Education, Room 802 Session chair: Paul White (Darwin Correspondence Project); Discussion chair: Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project) This session marks the formal launch of Ɛpsilon …
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John Stevens Henslow
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The letters Darwin exchanged with John Stevens Henslow, professor of Botany and Mineralogy at Cambridge University, were among the most significant of his life. It was a letter from Henslow that brought Darwin the invitation to sail round the world as…
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Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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Darwin’s introduction to geology
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Darwin collected minerals as a child and was introduced to the science of geology at the University of Edinburgh, but he only became actively interested in the subject as he was completing his degree at Cambridge.
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Climbing plants
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Darwin’s book Climbing plants was published in 1865, but its gestation began much earlier. The start of Darwin’s work on the topic lay in his need, owing to severe bouts of illness in himself and his family, for diversions away from his much harder book on…
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Living and fossil cirripedia
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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…
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Fritz Müller
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Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…
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Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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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…
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Insectivorous Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Plants that consume insects Darwin began his work with insectivorous plants in the mid 1860s, though his findings would not be published until 1875. In his autobiography Darwin reflected on the delay that…
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Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
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The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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Darwin in letters, 1861: Gaining allies
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The year 1861 marked an important change in the direction of Darwin’s work. He had weathered the storm that followed the publication of Origin, and felt cautiously optimistic about the ultimate acceptance of his ideas. The letters from this year provide an…
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Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
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Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
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Orchids
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…
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Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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