From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1864
Summary
R. I. Murchison’s address [see 4595] smashes Ramsay’s glacial theory.
JDH defends his view that CD should not answer Kölliker.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 238–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4608 |
To Daniel Oliver 14 October [1860]
Summary
Has examined nearly all British orchids.
Hooker’s error on Listera.
Change in colour and consistency of Drosera hair glands after leaf inflection. Analogous structures in Dionaea. Requests Oliver confirm these observations on live plants, of which he has none.
In a muddle over the effects of salts on insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 14 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 17 (EH 88206001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2949 |
To Daniel Oliver [after 14 April 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on Primula ovules. From what DO says the pollen-tubes ought to find their way to the micropyle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [after 14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4095 |
From John Scott 6 January 1863
Summary
Sends Primula scotica and P. farinosa.
So far cannot fertilise Gongora atropurpurea although it is similar to Acropera luteola.
Experimenting on intergeneric hybrids to test CD’s view that sterility is not a special endowment.
Scott’s personal history.
Acropera capsule grows.
Plans for experiments CD has suggested on Primula, peloric Antirrhinum, and Verbascum.
Asks about Gärtner’s experiments on maize.
Aware of Anderson-Henry’s failures.
Through kindness of J. H. Balfour and James McNab, enjoys facilities for research. JS is in charge of the propagating department. Balfour almost engaged him to be superintendent of the Madras Horticultural Garden.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 81, 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3904 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 September [1861] , and Correspondence …
- … 11 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD wrote that despite his hard work at seeking the meaning of the ‘two sets of very different stamens’, he was ‘shamefully beaten’. See n. 1, above; the specimens sent to CD by Scott did not thrive (see letter to Daniel Oliver, …
To J. D. Hooker 2 September [1860]
Summary
CD has a low opinion of British entomologists.
Lyell’s ingenious difficulties with natural selection show he is in earnest.
Asks JDH to observe beetles and variation of stripes in mules on his Syrian tour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2905 |
From C. V. Naudin 18 June 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his paper "Climbing plants" [see 4861] and for a photograph.
Hopes soon to send a copy of his memoir on hybridisation
and with it will forward a short note on the tendrils of the Cucurbitaceae.
Author: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4863 |
To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli 12 June [1866]
Summary
Comments on CWvN’s Die Entstehung und Begriff [der Naturhistorischen Art (1864)].
Discussion of beauty of flowers in new edition of Origin not based on CWvN’s article.
Comments on CWvN’s argument that flower structures are not due to natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
Date: | 12 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5119 |
To Daniel Oliver [17 September 1862]
Summary
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [17 Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 36 (EH 88206019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3709 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [May 1864]
Summary
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 January [1865]
Summary
"Climbing plants" sent off.
Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.
Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]
and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].
Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.
Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!
"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 258a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4748 |
To Asa Gray 28 May [1864]
Summary
Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids
– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.
Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.
How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?
He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4511 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … it (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 November 1863 , and letter …
- … Daniel Oliver’s article on dimorphic flowers ([Oliver] 1864a). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and nn. 9–10, and letter from William Bennett, 29 April 1864 , n. 4. Gray sent specimens of Campanula perfoliata ( Specularia perfoliata ) in 1863; however, CD put the specimens in warm water to soak the flowers before he realised that they had seeds. Evidently the seeds failed to germinate (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
From Daniel Oliver 10 April 1862
Summary
Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.
Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Observations on Campanula dimorphism.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3502 |
From Fritz Müller [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865]
Summary
FM’s comments on Climbing Plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 and 31 Aug 1865 and 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Notes on some of the climbing-plants near Desterro, in South Brazil. By Herr Fritz Müller, in a letter to C. Darwin. [Read 7 December 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1866): 344–9. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … before 31 March 1864] , letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 March [1864] , and letters to J. D. …
- … 11. In ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 110–11, CD had concluded that although all tendrils performed identical functions, they consisted of modified leaves, or modified flower-peduncles, or possibly modified branches and stipules; he also questioned whether the difference between foliar and axial organs could be ‘of so fundamental a nature’ as was generally supposed ( ibid. , pp. 113–14; for CD’s discussions on the derivation of tendrils, see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from Daniel Oliver , [ …
To J. D. Hooker 12 [December 1862]
Summary
Maintains his view on crossing. Thinks practical breeders would agree with him; doubts that variability and domestication are at all necessarily correlative.
Identical plants in different conditions a heavy argument against "direct action" [of physical conditions].
His 1000-pigeon case is altered if long-beaked are in least degree sterile with short-beaked.
His work on dimorphism inclines him to believe that sterility is at first a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct.
Case of easy modification of Lythrum pollen to favour or prevent crossing.
Monsters.
Has just finished chapter on variations of cultivated plants.
Edinburgh doctors have sent him Diploma of Medical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 [Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3855 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … February [1861] , and letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 September [1861] ). After experimenting …
- … 11 December 1862. The journal also records that he wrote his paper, ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ , between 11 and 21 December. The reference is to copies of Bonafous 1836 and volumes 6 and 7 of the London Journal of Botany that had been sent to CD from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, possibly also with volume 1 of the Technologist (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] , and letter from Daniel Oliver, …
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1864]
Summary
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4461 |
To Jeffries Wyman 8 October [1865]
Summary
Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.
Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?
Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 8 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 15 September [1860]
Summary
Asks for any published reference providing account of the movement of the viscid hairs or leaves of Drosera lunata, an Indian Drosera which Lindley cites in Vegetable kingdom, p. 433.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 15 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 22 September 1860, p. 853 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2918A |
To J. D. Hooker 11 June [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of Mrs Hooker’s health and domestic problems. Wishes natural selection had produced neuters who would not flirt or marry.
Will be eager to hear Cameroon results.
Wishes JDH would discuss the "mundane glacial period". Still believes it will be "the turning point of all recent geographical distribution".
Pollen placed for 65 hours on apparent (CD still thinks real) stigma of Leschenaultia has not protruded a vestige of a tube.
"Oliver the omniscient" has produced an article in Botanische Zeitung with accurate account of all CD saw in Viola.
Asa Gray’s "red-hot" praise of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3597 |
To Daniel Oliver 24 July [1862]
Summary
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3664 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … of Müller 1857 (see letter to Daniel Oliver, [before 11 June 1862] and n. 2, and letter …
- … 11 June [1862] ). CD probably refers to the bird’s-eye primrose, Primula farinosa ; having failed to supply CD with specimens of this species during the previous season (see Correspondence vol. 9), Oliver had expressed a hope in April 1862 that he would be able to do so in the coming season, and had promised to write to let CD know (see letters from Daniel …
To Daniel Oliver 20 [January 1863]
Summary
Has been copying out references from Natural History Review [possibly D. Oliver, "The structure of the stem in dicotyledons; being references to the literature of the subject", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 298–329].
Suggests DO study high incidence of separate sexes in freshwater plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 38 (EH 88206021) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3776 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (36) |
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Gray, Asa | (8) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (130) |
Hooker, J. D. | (50) |
Oliver, Daniel | (36) |
Gray, Asa | (10) |
Scott, John | (7) |