MacCulloch, John. 1824. The highlands and western isles of Scotland … founded on a series of annual journeys between the years 1811 and 1821 … in letters to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 4 vols. London.
To Caroline Darwin [19 May – 16 June 1837]
Summary
Sends a number of questions (to put to his father), mainly concerned with transmission of diseases, between Europeans and natives, "people packed together", etc.
Is investigating how to get Government support [for Zoology].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
| Date: | [19 May – 16 June 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-360 |
From J. D. Hooker [7–8 April 1865]
Summary
Reforms at Kew.
X Club Dinner. H. B. Wilson and J. W. Colenso as guests.
Troubled by Lubbock’s going into Parliament – loss to science.
Has written to Busk.
Sending Botanische Zeitung.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7–8 Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 15–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4807 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1862]
Summary
CD wishes he could sympathise with Asa Gray’s politics.
Orchids to appear soon.
Pre-glacial Arctic distribution.
Work on floral dimorphism.
High opinion of Buckle as a writer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 185 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3468 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 April 1866]
Summary
Queries for John Smith [Kew curator] on crossing a cucumber variety.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 286 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5054 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1864
Summary
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 208–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4469 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 June 1864
Summary
JDH going to visit W. H. Harvey in Ireland.
New curator at Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4543 |
To Thomas Rivers [9 May 1863]
Summary
Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.
Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | [9 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4150 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [June 1864]
Summary
John Scott preparing to leave soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 [June 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 239b, 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4544 |
To Susan Darwin [4 September 1831]
Summary
Spent preceding day with Henslow; much to be done. A friend, Alexander Charles Wood, has written to Capt. FitzRoy about CD. Peacock offered appointment as Beagle naturalist first to Leonard Jenyns, who almost accepted, as did Henslow himself. CD will talk to Capt. Francis Beaufort [Hydrographer] and FitzRoy. Thanks all his family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Sept 1831] |
| Classmark: | DAR 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-115 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1865]
Summary
Kew affairs.
H. J. Carter’s observations are wonderful but want verification.
Skeptical of H. H. Travers’ observations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 43–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 June 1864]
Summary
JDH is writing letters for Scott, whose temper will be "no obstacle for Hindoos and Musselmen working under him".
New curator at Kew finds considerable neglect, with hundreds of plants dying.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 June 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 222–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4519 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1864
Summary
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 227–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4537 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 April 1864]
Summary
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4445 |
To John Scott 2 July [1863]
Summary
CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.
Thanks for Passiflora trials.
"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."
CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 2 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4229 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 January 1866
Summary
Is in a mess with his correspondence and will get no assistance before 1 April.
Has agreed to give an address on the Darwinian theory at Nottingham [meeting of BAAS].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 53–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4978 |
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 |
To Albany Hancock [26 January – March 1850]
Summary
Discusses mollusc specimens and related notes sent to AH. Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses various cirripede species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | [26 Jan – Mar 1850] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1311 |
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Origin in Commentary
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
Summary
Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
Matches: 1 hits
- … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a second …
