From J. D. Hooker 13 August 1869
Summary
Did not intend to imply that Hallett said variation stopped, but that it arrives at a point where further accumulation in direction sought is so slow as to result practically in fixity of type – but not absolute fixity.
Duke of Argyll has requested JDH to superintend publication of a flora of India. JDH thinks he [Argyll] is paying him off for his kick at natural theology.
Willy [Hooker] returning from New Zealand.
A unique character in Drosophyllum.
Sees no reason for CD to contribute to Ross and Faraday memorials.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 27–9, DAR 100: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6862 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1869
Summary
Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.
Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.
F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 18–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6800 |
To W. C. Tait 7 April [1869]
Summary
Drosophyllum plants recovering [from trip]. Describes experiments on them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
Date: | 7 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6693 |
To George Cupples 20 November [1869]
Summary
Thanks GC for his assistance. "The data for all that I have to say about the Scotch deer-hound are, owing to you, almost sufficient; and much better data than I have got in many other cases." [See Descent 2: 260.]
Believes Dr Stirling would be compelled to admit some change in "the famous protoplasm in our domestic races, both in regard to the structure of the body & qualities of the mind".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 20 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4127 II, 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7000 |
To George Maw 13 January 1869
Summary
Thanks GM for offer of observations. Would be interested to know when the horns of merino rams first appear,
and has long wished for living specimens of Drosophyllum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 13 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6552 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1869
Summary
Describes how the offer of C.B. was made. He declined a knighthood. Murchison and Lyell are trying to get him made Knight Commander of the Star of India, but he does not think there is a chance. The Duke [of Argyll?] might do it, but does not like JDH’s Darwinism.
Next Presidency of Royal Society discussed: all (Brodie, the X Club botanists, et al.) are agreed on Lyell.
Everyone is disappointed with Nature.
What did CD think of "Huxley’s rhapsody on Goethe’s ditto" [Nature 1 (1869): 9–11]?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 35—8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6988 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1869]
Summary
Envies JDH’s Russian trip.
Thanks for information on Aucuba. Urges him to experiment – case "has highest physiological importance, not to mention Pangenesis".
Has heard that Huxley has been attacking views of Sir W. Thomson.
Has received 12 plants of Drosophyllum lusitanicum from Oporto.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 118–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6666 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 March 1869
Summary
Orchids translation should goad [French] Academy into electing CD.
JDH will be sent to St Petersburg congress by Government.
Huxley on protoplasm; his address to Geological Society.
Fertilised an Aucuba with pollen of various species. Reports on results.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6655 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 December [1869]
Summary
Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 194–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7020 |
To W. C. Tait 12 and 16 March 1869
Summary
Thanks for specimen of Drosophyllum.
Describes capacity of various plants to catch flies.
Cannot name fern specimen.
Laugher pigeon descended from Columba livia.
Discusses tailless dogs.
Believes astronomical phenomenon responsible for oscillation of level of earth’s crust.
Would WCT like copy of Orchids?
Expected plants [Drosophyllum] have arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
Date: | 12 and 16 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 541; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6661 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 July [1869]
Summary
An article in North British Review by mathematician against Hooker and Huxley and for William Thomson [P. G. Tait, "Geological time", North Br. Rev. 50 (1869): 406–39]. Feels a conviction that world will be found older than reviewer makes it.
Article on "Design" [by J. B. Mozley] in Quarterly Review [127 (1869): 134–76].
Has JDH studied Drosophyllum?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 140–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6841 |
To F. M. Malven [after 12 February 1869]
Summary
Honoured to be mentioned with Alexander von Humboldt, who was an inspiration to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Maria Malven |
Date: | [after 12 Feb 1869] |
Classmark: | Neue Freie Presse (Vienna), 4 March 1869, p. 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6610F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 February 1869, pp. 1–2. This extract from CD’s letter was published in a later short note, with the comment that it gave the lie to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ’s famous dictum, ‘Nur die Lumpe sind bescheiden’ (Only nobodies are modest). On CD’s admiration for Humboldt, see Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1869
Summary
Will do his best on the tooth [sent by CD] but does not put much weight on conclusions based on a single tooth of a horse.
Darwin attacked by three clergymen at BAAS meeting [Exeter, 1869].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6914 |
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- … 12 June to 30 July 1869 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Huxley refers to three papers by Anglican clergymen delivered in the biology section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The papers were by Philip Freeman , Francis Orpen Morris , and James McCann . The papers and Huxley’s remarks were summarised in the Athenæum , 4 September 1869, p. 309. For Huxley’s dispute with McCann, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, …
From Alphonse de Candolle 28 September 1869
Summary
Reports on the differences of growth and development of plants of three species grown at Geneva from seed collected at different localities. Forwards seed for CD to plant and observe differences in development.
Carl Linsseer has published a memoir on the times of flowering, foliation, etc. of diverse species in different parts of Europe [Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 11 no. 7 (1868)] and concludes that the northern forms are more forward and that this is hereditary. AdeC’s experiments carried out on annuals, show only the effects of heredity; probably the direct action of physical conditions affects development, at least in perennial species.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 32.i (EH 88206083) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6915 |
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- … 12. Kharkov (now Kharkiv) is a city in eastern Ukraine, in the Donets valley ( Columbia gazetteer of the world ). CD had written extensively on the effect of changes in climate and other conditions of life on various domestic plants and animals (see Variation 1: 271–92). Senecio vulgaris is common groundsel, a winter annual. Sisymbrium officinale is hedge-mustard. Trifolium repens is white clover. CD forwarded Candolle’s letter and most of the seed to Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter to J. D. …
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