From J. D. Hooker 14 December 1866
Summary
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 121–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5305 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 13, letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and nn. …
- … 7 and 8, and letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 and n. 24). CD had discussed the …
- … J. D. Hooker, [12 December 1866] and n. 5). He refers to William Spottiswoode and his wife, William Edward Hartpole Lecky , Thomas Henry Huxley , Benjamin Collins Brodie, Philothea Margaret Brodie , William Rathbone Greg , and Hensleigh Wedgwood . He also refers to Greg’s book, The creed of Christendom ( Greg 1851 ). The second part of Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83) was published in 1865, …
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Author
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
