To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1872]
Summary
Heartily glad about Willy.
Has never had Zizania.
Still has Leersia. He cannot make the beast produce.
What slow coaches the Ministers are about the Ayrton affair.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 218–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8181 |
From Alfred Tylor 8 June 1872
Summary
AT is trying to publish his paper with important evidence on "the pluvial period".
| Author: | Alfred Tylor |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 June 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8376 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 May [1872]
Summary
Thanks for information on sexual colours in pigeons.
Will send latest edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8326 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1872
Summary
Sends Mrs Barber’s address.
Gratified that CD hates Owen. Hopes Owen will not answer Nature letter and draw JDH into controversy. Owen’s letter was not intended for Ayrton to use. Its appearance must have horrified him.
State of Huxley’s health makes JDH uneasy.
Willy is in a stockbroker’s office in London and likes it.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Oct 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 128–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8584 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1872
Summary
William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.
Other family news.
No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.
Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 103–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8176 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 November 1872
Summary
Is reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas of life [1872]: "One of the most eloquent books I ever read".
Owen’s communications are doing incalculable mischief to science in the eyes of Government officials. "This ignorant, careless, unobservant government."
The Nature editors, J. N. Lockyer and Bennett, blame each other for printing Owen’s letter.
Huxley looks wretched.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 135–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8651 |
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- … Henslow, Charles Paget, Brian Harvey Hodgson, and Reginald Hawthorn Hooker . Hooker’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Expression (Appendix V). Hooker’s daughters were Harriet Anne and Grace Ellen Hooker . William Rathbone Greg’s Enigmas of life ( Greg 1872 ) contained chapters titled, ‘Malthus notwithstanding’, ‘Non-survival of the fittest’, ‘Limits and directions of human development’, and ‘The significance of life’. Hooker refers to Richard Owen and probably to the Board (or Department) of Works, under whose authority the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, came. See letter from J. …
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