To J. D. Hooker 13 January [1863]
Summary
Acquired characteristics.
Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.
Asa Gray on slavery.
Falconer’s partial conversion.
Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3913 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … See also ibid. , letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . Hooker and Bentham …
- … vol. 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , and letter to John Scott, 12 …
- … to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1862] . …
- … J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1863] , and letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and …
To J. D. Hooker 12–13 August [1863]
Summary
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12–13 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4266 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 August [1863]
Summary
Tendril plants received.
Has just completed large crossing experiment with Lythrum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4261 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 10, letters to Asa Gray , 9 August [1862] and [3–]4 September [1862] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [October 1862] and n. 12). …
- … 12 or 13 October 1863. See also ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [31 July 1863] . Francis Boott died of a lung disease on 25 December 1863 ( DNB ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [31 July 1863] and n. 9. In Decaisne 1863 , pp. 10– …
To J. D. Hooker 13 [March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Fertilisation of trees by bees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 [Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4039 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letters to John Scott , 11 December [1862] and 19 December [1862] ). CD refers to James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, where Anne Elizabeth Darwin , CD’s eldest daughter and favourite child, died in 1851 (see Correspondence vol. 5). CD stayed at near-by Malvern Wells with his family from 3 September to 12 …
To J. D. Hooker [13 November 1863]
Summary
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [13 Nov 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4341 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1863]
Summary
Herbert Spencer’s work disappointing – "all words & generalities".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4218 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1863]
Summary
Requests tendril-bearing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 200 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4241 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 October [1864] (DAR 157.2: 52); Anguria warscewiczii , dated 29 April 1864, and Zanonia indica , dated 11 April and 20 May [1864] (DAR 157.2: 54). There are also notes on several species of Passiflora (passion flower), dated 27 [July 1863] – 4 August [1864] (DAR 157.2: 69–77); Ampelopsis hederacea (Virginia creeper), dated 1 July – 16 August [1863] (DAR 157.2: 65–7); Cissus discolor , dated 30 June – 18 July [1863] (DAR 157.2: 55–6); Pisum sativum (common pea), dated 30 July – 23 August [1863] (DAR 157.2: 15–20); and Lathyrus grandiflorus (everlasting pea), dated 10– …
