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 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 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 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 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 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 J. D. Hooker 26 November 1862
Summary
Returns Asa Gray letter. Gray has made a great blunder in his criticism of Oliver: he mistakes perpetuation of a variety for "propagation of variation". Confusion between "action of physical causes" and "effects of physical causes". Neither crossing nor natural selection has made so many divergent individuals, but simply variation. "If once you hold that natural selection can create a character your whole doctrine tumbles to the ground." CD’s failure to convey this, and the false doctrine that "like produces like" is at bottom of half the scientific infidelity to CD’s doctrine. There is something to the objection that CD has made a deus ex machina of natural selection since he neglects to dwell on the facts of infinite incessant variations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 61–2, 77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3831 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 November 1864]
Summary
JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.
Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.
Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].
JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Nov 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 254–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4667 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 August 1854
Summary
JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.
Insects found in coal.
Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.
JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Aug 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1581 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1864
Summary
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4692 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 April 1864
Summary
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4452 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1866]
Summary
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 118–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5302 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … letter to Hooker of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD reported having seen …
- … Hooker in his letter of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12) that he expected to …
- … his letter to Hooker of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD had asked Daniel …
- … in his letter of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). Hooker and CD had a long- …
- … 78. See Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] and n. 6. …
- … see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and [28 September …
- … 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] , letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] ). From his observations of Hanburya mexicana , a species of Cucurbitaceae, CD inferred that the plant might be an incipient form, since the adhesive discs were of no apparent use (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 …
- … 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 and [28 September 1864] , and Curle 1954 , pp. 25–6). A heavily annotated copy of Gärtner 1849 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 256–98). It is cited extensively in Origin , Variation , and Forms of flowers on the subject of hybrid sterility. For a discussion of the importance of Gärtner’s work to CD’s research, see Correspondence vol. 10, …
From J. D. Hooker 28 November 1874
Summary
Huxley feels he can accept the Edinburgh lecture invitation.
Also tells JDH he is preparing a paper for Linnean Society on classification which will uphold evolution ["On the classification of the animal kingdom", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 199–226]. He has thrown overboard all his old ideas of definite demarcation. He will make a clean breast of it, and will bear hard on necessity of all such ideas as Haeckel’s in dealing with systematic zoology.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 230–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9736 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1845
Summary
Raises some points for revision of CD’s Journal of researches.
Southern island floras. "The more I ponder upon Insular Floras the less inclined I am to admit the mutation of species to any very great amount."
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 51–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-887 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … refers to his sons, Charles Paget Hooker , aged 10, and William Henslow Hooker , aged 12. …
- … 10 July 1865] and n. 9). Hooker had been receiving proofs from Spencer throughout the publication of the instalments of Spencer 1864–7 ; his assistance was acknowledged in the preface to the published volumes (see Correspondence vol. 12, …
From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865]
Summary
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4836 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 April 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5483 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |