From Ernst Haeckel 11 November 1865
Summary
Has heard from Huxley that CD has been ill.
Progress on his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] has been slow.
Has been named "ordentlicher Professor". Has 150 listeners in his lectures on CD’s theory.
Thanks CD for copy [of "Climbing plants"].
Sends his book [Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen, 1. Heft: Die Familie der Rüsselquallen (Geryonidae) (1865)] and two articles.
Calls attention to a new rhizopod from Nice.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4934 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to CD of 9 [July 1864], 10 August 1864, and 26 October 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). …
- … letter to CD is dated 26 October 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12); however, CD received …
- … 12), Haeckel had claimed that in his next book he would show that the theory of descent threw ‘light on every single chapter’ of the history of creation and unified them ‘in the most perfect harmony’. See also ibid. , letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 …
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 June 1865]
Summary
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4855 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … after 12 June was 15 June. Hooker first mentioned Tylor 1865 in his letter of [26 May …
- … see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n. 18. …
- … 26 th . the Benthams going with us. —sleeping at York the first night. Ever Yrs affec | J D Hooker Jermyn S t . June 12 …
From August Schleicher 9 February 1865
Summary
Sends a pamphlet and photograph to CD [missing];
announces a botanical congress at Erfurt at which CD’s theory will be discussed.
Author: | August Schleicher |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4770 |
From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865
Summary
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4838 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 12, letters from Ernst Haeckel , 9 [July 1864] , 10 August [1864] , and 26 October …
- … 26 January 1863 and nn. 6–14, Corsi and Weindling 1985, Montgomery 1988 , Junker 1989 , Engels ed. 1995, and Nyhart 1995 . In 1864 Rudolf Albert von Kölliker published a critical review of Origin ( Kölliker 1864a and 1864b), which was translated into English in the Reader ( Kölliker 1864c ); see Correspondence vol. 12, …
To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865]
Summary
Not surprised at delay of his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
P. M. Duncan taking side of evolution.
Has received paper on Geryonidae ["Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether such a case ever occurred in nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 6 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4947 |
From William Erasmus Darwin [late February–May 1865]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from short-styled yellow primrose and from long-styled yellow and red primroses.]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [late Feb–May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 89a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4729 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
To Fritz Müller 10 August [1865]
Summary
Has read and admires FM’s work on species.
Observations on Crustacea are good and original; asks FM to dissect and check some of CD’s observations on cirripedes.
Has sent "Climbing plants" paper [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 1–118] and would like to send Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 10 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 May [1865]
Summary
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 268a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4827 |
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Summary
Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].
Describes his situation in Calcutta.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4751 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 , and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 …
- … 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] and [19 September 1864] ). Scott was given a position at Rungbee, a newly established Cinchona plantation several miles south-east of Darjeeling (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 …
From J. D. Hooker [7–8 April 1865]
Summary
Reforms at Kew.
X Club Dinner. H. B. Wilson and J. W. Colenso as guests.
Troubled by Lubbock’s going into Parliament – loss to science.
Has written to Busk.
Sending Botanische Zeitung.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7–8 Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4807 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 July 1865]
Summary
Was glad to read JDH’s article on glaciers of Yorkshire ["Moraines of the Tees Valley", Reader 6 (1865): 70].
Reader article [6 (1865): 61–2] about English and foreign men of science is unjust.
Lubbock is now lost to science.
B. Verlot’s pamphlet on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement (1865)] is very good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 July 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 273 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4874 |
From Fritz Müller 5 November 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for the copy of Orchids and papers on Linum and Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 93–105; 106–31].
Intends to travel to the River Itajahy and will make observations on climbing plants. Is not sure whether Dalbergia is a winding plant.
CD has changed FM’s whole perception of nature.
CD has helped him to understand distribution of coastal flora.
The vegetation on Desterro is changing.
Louis Agassiz is seeking evidence against transmutation in the distribution of the fish in the Amazon.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 76–7. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929A |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 7 February 1865
Summary
MTM heard part of the abstract of CD’s paper on climbing plants, read at the Linnean Society on 2 Feb. Offers CD his opinion and information on the subject, which he has studied for many years.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4766 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 26 February [1862] ). CD had considered the relationship between plant parts in 1864, also in relation to his work with climbing plants (see Correspondence vol. 12, …
- … 12, letter from M. T. Masters, 19 September 1864) . Examples of spiral torsion in Galium and other plants are discussed in Masters 1869 , pp. 319–26, …
- … 12 June 1865 ( General index to the Journal of the Linnean Society , p. vi). Masters included a section on ‘Spiral torsion’, in which he cited ‘Climbing plants’ , in Vegetable teratology ( Masters 1869 , pp. 319–26). …
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 12 s. , one on 31 October 1865 and the other on 28 November 1865. Daniel Oliver informed CD that Hooker was expected to return to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 26 …
- … 26 [April 1858] and n. 4. Travers had noted that many introduced plants, including white clover, were spreading rapidly, and also that the importation of bees had resulted in good fruit production from introduced European trees and shrubs ( Travers 1864 , p. 144). In correspondence with Hooker, CD had suggested that the ‘remarkable absence’ of papilionaceous plants in New Zealand might be explained by the absence of hive bees ( see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 …
To J. D. Hooker 16 August [1865]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4884 |
From Henry Holland 2 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].
Remarks on development of the tapeworm.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4735 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [or 28 September 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 or 28] Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4901 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 12). From 22 August 1865, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records CD’s weight at weekly intervals. His weight on 22 August was 11 st. 4 lb and on 26 …
- … 26 September 1865] . George Bentham , a colleague of Hooker’s at Kew, had been visiting CD’s neighbours, Robert Monsey and Laura Rolfe (Lord and Lady Cranworth; Jackson 1906 , p. 204). Bentham visited the Hookers at Kew on 16 August 1865; Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker had died on 12 …
From J. D. Hooker [26 January 1865]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4754 |
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