From J. D. Hooker [15 and] 20 November [1862]
Summary
Sends CD West Ireland soundings.
More detail on his review "a la Lindley" [see 3797].
Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566] is capital.
Andrew Murray’s article plays into CD’s hands through sheer ignorance.
JDH is on Royal Society Council.
Has no recollection of applying natural selection to Polynesians. None but a German would dig out such a passage if it exists [see 3812].
Has caused Tyndall to modify his pseudo-geology.
Has not seen Duke of Argyll’s review [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97]. [The Duke] did not understand Orchids the least little bit, nor the Origin, when JDH saw him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 20 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 71–2, 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3807 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … to the letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] ; the Saturday following that …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 4 November [1862] and [10–]12 November [1862] ). Hooker refers to the …
- … 1862c). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . [J. D. Hooker] 1862c, …
- … Variability’. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . The second part of …
- … John Tyndall . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. 23. [G. D. …
- … 1862 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. 26, and letter to …
- … 511–12. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . Hooker refers to specimens …
- … 1862] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. 20. The governess …
From George Henslow 12 March 1866
Summary
Thanks for references for his Naudin–hybridism paper [see 5029].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5033 |
From William Ogle 12 April 1882
Summary
A friend once "caught" an oyster while fishing, which confirms CD’s note ["On the dispersal of freshwater bivalves", Collected papers 2: 276–8].
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13767 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 12 July 1875
Summary
WTT-D and E. R. Lankester wish to visit CD.
Has corrected some references for new edition of Variation.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10061 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 December 1862]
Summary
"Throttled off" Welwitschia paper at Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 1–48].
Has read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).
Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3856 |
From T. V. Wollaston [12 April 1857]
Summary
Lists groups of insects absent from the Madeiran fauna.
Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Apr 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2076 |
From Mary Boott 18 January 1864
Author: | Mary Hardcastle; Mary Boott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4391 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1862
Summary
JDH admits he wrote Gardeners’ Chronicle and Natural History Review articles on orchids [Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863, 910; Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6].
JDH’s objections to CD’s idea of how Greenland was repopulated. Temperate Greenland has as Arctic a flora as Arctic Greenland – a fact of astounding force. Why should certain Scandinavian species be absent? Migration by sea-currents can no more account for the present distribution in Greenland than can special creation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 68–9, 73–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3797 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 2 August 1866
Summary
Encloses feathers from a diseased hen which has assumed cock plumage.
Forwards proofs of the engravings for Variation.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5171 |
From G. C. Oxenden 27 September [1862]
Summary
Thinks "ozonised fluid" is a pure solution of permanganate of soda. Sends dosage.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3740 |
From George Cupples 11 March 1869
Summary
Differences in size and weight in deerhounds, with tables of comparative weights according to sex. Promises information on weights of deerhound puppies. Effects of cross- and inbreeding.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 133–8, DAR 161: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6657 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 3 — 10 12 weight comparative of N o . 1 bitch in (A). N o 1 bitch weighed 57 lbs. height …
- … Dogs { N o . 1 — 11lbs 2oz 6 when fully 7 weeks old 2 — 11 12 3 — 10 10 …
- … old, weighed along with the dog-puppies 7 weeks old N o 1 — 13 lbs (B) 2 — 12 lbs 10 oz …
- … 4 — 10 6* Bitches { N o . 1 — 8 8 2 — 7 12 3 — 4 2* At the same time with these were being …
- … 5— 13 N o 3 — 2— 12* Weight on evening of Dogs { N o 1. — 9— 6oz 3 June 10 th N o 2 — 9— 4 …
- … 2 3 — 10 6 1 4 4 — 10 6* Bitches { N o 1 — 7 1 2 oz 2 — 7 3 4 3 — 3 12* Weight July 2 d . …
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 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 May 1872
Summary
The die is cast on Ayrton affair. Lord Derby has called for all of the correspondence, as a result of pressure by men of science on JDH’s behalf.
Has just had a Greenland collection, which supports his views altogether; "I am ready to do fight for these with you."
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 109–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8317 |
From Albert Günther [c. 23 March 1868?]
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 23 Mar 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 82.2: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6531 |
From G. C. Oxenden 17 September [1862]
Summary
Strongly recommends Condy’s "Ozonised Disinfectant" as a cure for scarlet fever.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3728 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1866
Summary
Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.
"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."
Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.
Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].
Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.
Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.
Balfour Stewart on sunspots.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 114–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5294 |
From G. H. Darwin [23 February 1869]
Summary
Encloses a letter [from J. Croll?].
Has been unable to find a paper CD wanted.
Is leaving shortly for Paris.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Feb 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6636 |
From George Howard Darwin [before 11 May 1863]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 51: 6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3887 |
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