To J. D. Hooker [5 October 1847]
Summary
Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.
Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1123 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 June 1847
Summary
JDH’s aunt cannot find lodgings for CD.
Similarities between floras of Tierra del Fuego, Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand; does not feel migration sufficient explanation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 75–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1097 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 June 1847]
Summary
Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 June 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1096 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 May 1847]
Summary
Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1087 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 August 1847]
Summary
Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 Aug 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1106 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 September 1847]
Summary
David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.
Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 Sept 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1118 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 April 1847]
Summary
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [18 Apr 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1082 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1847]
Summary
JDH’s proposed India trip.
Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.
CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1077 |
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 12 April 1847
Summary
[Copy made by CD’s amanuensis.] Discusses the rarity of intermediate forms.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Apr 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 156–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1079 |
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- … From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 12 April 1847 …
- … J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1847] ) and passed Watson’s reply on to CD. The letter was copied at Down House and has corrections and annotations in CD’s hand. The date of the original letter. The copy, from which this transcription is taken, was made after 12 …
To J. F. Royle [16 April – 21 May 1847]
Summary
CD understands that JFR cannot lend him the volumes [of Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India] at present. Thanks for offer to inform him of other works on the breeds of animals in India.
CD fears his belonging to the new club [Philosophical Club of the Royal Society] would be useless, since he is seldom able to dine out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
| Date: | [16 Apr – 21 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 400 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1047 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [February 1847]
Summary
Cirripede observations.
Would like to hear what JDH has to say about his species sketch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [Feb 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1058 |
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| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Royle, J. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
| Royle, J. F. | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
