To J. D. Hooker 10 [October 1853]
Summary
Returning JDH’s MS and books.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 [Oct 1853] |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1535 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 October 1853]
Summary
Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 Oct 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1529 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Hooker, J. D. …
- … To J. D. Hooker [9 October 1853] …
- … CD refers to the page numbers of a manuscript sent to him by Hooker (see letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 25 September [1853] ). In J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xiv, Hooker discussed Bory de …
- … already exist. ’ Although Hooker referred to hybrid ferns in J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xv …
- … the books mentioned in the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [October 1853] , and which would …
- … Hooker acknowledged CD’s work in his remarks on elevation and subsidence in J. D. Hooker …
- … Sophora tetraptera ) and Oxalis magellanica ( J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xix); instead he …
- … to be borne in the air. ’ Discussed in J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxxi. Hooker kept these …
- … see Correspondence vol. 3, letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 3 September 1846] ). …
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 November [1853]
Summary
Edward Sabine’s official letter announcing CD’s receipt of Royal Society Medal left him cold. JDH’s informal one moved him.
Applauds JDH for supporting John Lindley.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1540 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1853]
Summary
Further response to MS of introductory essay to Flora Novae-Zelandiae.
Disbelieving in permanence of species has made little difference to CD in his barnacle work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1532 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Hooker, J. D. …
- … To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1853] …
- … the Botany of the Antarctic voyage ( J. D. Hooker 1853–5 ). The work CD planned to write …
- … flattery ( OED ), is the acknowledgment in J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxii n. , that: Mr. …
- … Himalayas, the Khasia mountains, &c. ( J. D. Hooker 1854a ). The two volumes contain a …
To Christian Karl Josias Bunsen 16 August [1853]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for forwarding microscopical specimens, a present from C. G. Ehrenberg.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Freiherr von Bunsen |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1853] |
| Classmark: | The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6511) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-902 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Bunsen, C. K. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Bunsen, C. K. J. | (1) |
