From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
To J. D. Hooker [27 January 1864]
Summary
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 Jan 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4398 |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 1 January 1864
Summary
Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 1 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4376 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
From B. D. Walsh 7 November 1864
Summary
Notes Louis Agassiz’s opinions on CD’s views.
Mating and sexual organs of insects.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4663 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1864]
Summary
Thanks for Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy [1864].
If Owen wrote article on "Oken" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed.] and French work on archetype he never did a baser act [see ML 1: 246 n.].
Bad health lately.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4459 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1864]
Summary
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 255a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4697 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 November 1864]
Summary
JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.
Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.
Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].
JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Nov 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 254–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4667 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 12. The award of the Copley Medal to CD was announced at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society of London on 30 November 1864. Because of concern about his health, CD did not attend the meeting (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 …
- … 26[–8] October 1864 and n. 24, and Record of the Royal Society of London , pp. 112–17). For a discussion of the different published versions of the anniversary address of Edward Sabine , the president of the Royal Society, see Correspondence vol. 12, …
To J. D. Hooker [1 September 1864]
Summary
CD continues to have trouble reconciling the Veitch’s names for Bignonia plants and Kew names.
Lyell and Falconer called on CD in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4605 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 12, Appendix II)), and by the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 . In 1864, 1 September was a Thursday. Quits was the title of a novel ( Tautphoeus 1857 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 …
- … 12, Appendix II)). CD refers to a Bignonia specimen on which he had been experimenting; he believed it to be a species allied to B. unguis , though Hooker initially thought that it was identical with B. unguis (a synonym of Dolichandra unguis-cati ). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 11 August [1864] and n. 4, 17 August [1864] , and 28 August [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 26 December [1863] ). Hooker also refers to Erasmus Alvey Darwin and to the Athenaeum Club in London. William Jackson Hooker . In his letter of 2 January 1864 , Alfred Russel Wallace praised Herbert Spencer ’s publications, mentioning that they were also appreciated by Thomas Henry Huxley . CD had asked for Hooker’s opinion of Spencer in his letter of [10 and 12 …
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1864]
Summary
CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.
Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.
W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 238a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4525 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 [March] 1864
Summary
Reception of Scott’s paper.
Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.
Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.
Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.
Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.
Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 [Mar] 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 189–92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4404 |
To Ernst Haeckel 21 November [1864]
Summary
Sends Living Cirripedia [vol. 2].
Has employed translator for Fritz Müller’s book [Für Darwin (1864)].
Thanks for paper and speech.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 21 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4676 |
From Asa Gray 11 July 1864
Summary
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4558 |
To J. D. Hooker 26[–7] March [1864]
Summary
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26[–7] Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 225 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4436 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 26 March fell on a Saturday; the second half of the letter was written on Sunday. Most of the letter is in Emma Darwin’s hand; CD or Emma retained Hooker’s error in writing February rather than March on his letter of 9 [March] 1864 . For an earlier report on CD’s health, see the letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 12 …
To J. D. Hooker 11 August [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Aug [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4588 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 April [1864]
Summary
Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.
CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 227a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4450 |
From Henry Holland 4 November [1864]
Summary
Congratulations on the Copley Medal.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4659 |
To J. H. Balfour 21 October [1864]
Summary
Thanks Balfour for Corydalis seed
and sends a photo of himself.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
Date: | 21 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5251 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 [April 1862] ; see also ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , p. 175 ( Collected papers 2: 111), letter to Nature , 6 April [1874] ( Calendar no. 9393), and Cross and self fertilisation , pp. 358–9). However, he had more recently become interested in C. claviculata for his work on climbing plants (see his notes on the species in DAR 157.2: 26– …
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1864
Summary
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4537 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
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Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
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Gray, Asa | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |