From J. D. Hooker [after 11 December 1854]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 391 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1546 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1854]
Summary
Is relieved his book [Himalayan journals] has been well received and glad he has successfully completed it.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 86–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1557 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 25 March 1854]
Summary
JDH summarises letter from Humboldt.
JDH answers CD’s questions on glacial action in Himalayas.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 Mar 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 382 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1559 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 June 1854]
Summary
Birth of JDH’s second child.
Asks CD’s view of "highness" and "lowness" in animals. Gives his own for plants; extent of deviation from type, e.g., floral parts deviating from leaf.
Reading B. C. Brodie’s Psychological inquiries [1854].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 June 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 202–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1572 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 June 1854]
Summary
JDH on "highness" of Coniferae: they are genuine Dicotyledons, not a link to cryptogams; that is a geologists’ fallacy. Thus they are highest plants in Carboniferous.
Does not agree with CD’s "elastic" species theory. Long correspondence with Lyell on this.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 June 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 383 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1576 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 August 1854
Summary
JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.
Insects found in coal.
Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.
JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Aug 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1581 |
From Richard Thomas Lowe 19 September 1854
Summary
The land shells, both fossil and recent, of Madeira and Porto Santo have features peculiar to them, so RTL would have no difficulty in identifying them.
Author: | Richard Thomas Lowe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 392 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1593 |
From G. R. Waterhouse 11 November 1854
Summary
Sends list of aberrant forms of Curculionidae.
Discusses in detail the artificiality of Carl Johan Schönherr’s classification. Sound generalisations about geographical distribution depend on sound classifications. Warns against putting too much faith in current catalogues.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 401 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1598 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 November 1854]
Summary
Fossil leaves from Disko Island.
JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.
Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.
Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 385 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1600 |
From H. C. Watson [19 November 1854]
Summary
In response to CD’s query, HCW says he cannot supply "any list of species as the flora of a single and sterile soil". Suggests a possible source of information, and provides some figures for Britain, but these apply to diverse soils.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 402 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1604 |
From H. C. Watson 20 November [1854]
Summary
Sends a count of the number of species of flowering plants and ferns on the islands of Fayal and Flores in the Azores.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1605 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 November 1854]
Summary
George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.
JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 386 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1607 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 December [1854]
Summary
Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.
Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 388–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1611 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1854]
Summary
JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.
There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 214–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1629 |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Watson, H. C. | (2) |
Lowe, R. T. | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Watson, H. C. | (2) |
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Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |