To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1873]
Summary
Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.
Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.
Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.
9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 251–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8733 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1873] …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 …
- … Ewart Gladstone . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 and n. 7. CD refers to …
- … Sachs 1873 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 and n. 2. CD’s annotated …
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1873
Summary
Mimosa too far gone to send now.
CD’s marjoram is the common [Origanum] vulgare, not the pot herb.
On the water injury, Thiselton-Dyer and he may have used too fine a spray, but plant is insensitive.
Horribly angry at P. G. Tait’s letter in Nature [8 (1873): 381–2].
Tyndall writes that he is strong – the next number of Nature will prove it.
G. Henslow is much better.
JDH leaves for Bradford [BAAS meeting] tomorrow.
Rejoices at CD’s success with Drosera; longs to be at Nepenthes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 162–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9057 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 September 1873
Summary
Had read Tyndall’s letter [Nature 8 (1873): 399] – awfully savage, but certainly a great mistake to print it.
Thinks JDH will think better of Clerk Maxwell’s paper after he reads it.
Asks whether JDH could find out for him the temperature of rain in very hot countries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 280–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9074 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 or 20 January 1873]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 20] Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 138–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8734 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 January [1873]
Summary
Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.
Comments on various articles he has read.
Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 253–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8185 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1873
Summary
Hopes Drosophyllum was all right.
Opinion of Council of Royal Society [on Presidency] is twelve for JDH, five for Duke of Devonshire, and G. B. Airy for William Spottiswoode.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8742 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for useful information.
Is surprised Mimosa albida is not sensitive to water. Asks that they try again, or lend it to him.
Remembers a walk in Brazil in great bed of Mimosa.
After JDH left, CD was very bad, with much loss of memory and severe shocks continually passing through his brain.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 274–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9052 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1873
Summary
Drosophyllum is coming from Dublin. Will ship it to Down when it arrives.
The awful honour of Presidency of Royal Society; his aversion to dignities and honours.
R. Strachey [Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1873): 450] has paid him and CD a compliment.
Letter from Gladstone.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 146–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8732 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 June 1873
Summary
Leaves Wednesday with Huxley for holiday.
Family news.
He too thinks well of Bentham’s address.
Asa Gray elected Foreign F.R.S.
G. J. Allman is being proposed for Royal Medal by JDH and Huxley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8958 |
To J. D. Hooker [before 20 October 1873?]
Summary
Lists plants in which he is interested, including Neptunia and Mimosa species.
Do any strictly tropical plants have glaucous leaves?
Asks for observations on irritable plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [before 20 Oct 1873?] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873-8 f.39b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9107 |
To G. H. Darwin 12 October [1873]
Summary
Asks GHD whether he can tell him what inclination a polished or waxy leaf ought to hold to the horizon in order to let vertical rain rebound off as much as possible.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 September 1873]
Summary
Thanks for C. E. Norton’s address.
Tyndall’s answer [Nature 8 (1873): 399] has surprised and disappointed him;
great trouble in announcing Tyndall’s election as President Elect [of BAAS] yesterday. Tyndall may throw up the Presidency. Spottiswoode and JDH have concocted a letter telling him the facts.
A very poor dull meeting. Comments on papers by W. C. Williamson, Clerk Maxwell, David Ferrier, Burdon Sanderson [Rep. BAAS 43: lxx–xci, 23–32,126–7, 131–3].
Has heard Huxley is back quite well.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9063 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 November 1873]
Summary
Sends leaves and names by post.
Is writing everywhere for Drosophyllum.
Is deeply interested in Desmodium.
Had no intention of publishing on Nepenthes, the experiments were solely for CD’s "eating". Will continue with egg and raw meat experiments. Asks for advice on how to prove fluid is secreted by the glands.
Searles Wood’s letter is confused and would deny atavism if his principles were accepted.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Nov 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 178–80, DAR 209.12: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9123 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 August 1873
Summary
Asks JDH why so many plants are protected by a thin layer of waxy matter or with fine hairs.
Wrote to John Smith for a plant of Oxalis sensitiva, but it has not acted well.
Rejoices over Ayrton’s retirement. Hopes W. P. Adam, his successor, is a good sort of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 270–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9007 |
To Charles Lyell 24 September 1873
Summary
Discusses apple specimens received from CL; reversion to crab state. Cites passage on subject in Variation.
Comments on letter from Mr Wood on inheritance in fruit-trees.
Would like to cross flowers of "Hawthornden" with many distinct varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.432) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9065 |
To Edward Frankland 12 July 1873
Summary
Seeks the assistance of a professional chemist in securing a qualitative analysis of the fluid secreted by the glands of Drosera which have the power of dissolving animal matter out of the bodies of insects. [See 8979.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 12 July 1873 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8977A |
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- … 12. Muriatic acid: i.e. hydrochloric acid. August Wilhelm von Hofmann supplied CD with gelatine and pure sodium carbonate in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from A. W. Hofmann, 27 June 1862 , and Insectivorous plants , pp. 111 and 176). Thomas Henry Huxley visited Down on 27 and 28 June 1873; John Scott Burdon Sanderson visited on 4 July 1873 ( letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To Marian Evans 30 March [1873]
Summary
Asks whether the Litchfields may call on her. "My wife complains that she has been very badly treated and that I ought to have asked permission for her to call on you with me when we next come to London: but I tell her that I still have some shreds of modesty."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Evans; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Lewes; Marian (Mary Anne) (George Eliot) Cross |
Date: | 30 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | University of Redlands, Armacost Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8831 |
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- … 12 November 1868 and [17 November 1868] , and letters to G. H. Lewes, [13 November 1868] and 18 November 1868 ). Henrietta Emma Litchfield and Richard Buckley Litchfield . CD was an admirer of Evans’s writing; he and his family had read a number of her novels, published under the pseudonym George Eliot, including Adam Bede ( Eliot 1859 ; see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
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