To Hugh Falconer 15 October [1858]
Summary
Cannot come to London until Tuesday. Arriving about 11: 15.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 15 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4636 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, 15 [October 1858] , letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 [October …
- … n. 3, below. Falconer’s letter has not been found. In 1858, the Tuesday after 15 October …
- … this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 [October 1858] ( Correspondence vol. 7). …
- … 19 October. In his letter to J. D. Hooker of 20 [October 1858] ( Correspondence vol. 7), …
- … Correspondence vol. 7, letter to T. C. Eyton, 4 October [1858] and n. 4, and Appendix …
To Louis Agassiz 21 February [1858]
Summary
Thanks LA for presentation copy of Contributions [to the natural history of the United States of America, vol. 1, pt 1: Essay on classification, and vol. 1, pt 2: North American Testudinata (1857)]. Flattered; CD sees there is much of highest interest to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 279) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2217 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 [October 1858]
Summary
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 249 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2339 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … sent to the Gardeners’ Chronicle in November 1858 (see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [ …
- … November 1858]). CD refers to offprints of Darwin and Wallace 1858 (see letter to J. D. …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 20 [October 1858] . See preceding letter …
- … Hooker, [5 August 1858] ). See letter to T. C. Eyton, 4 October [1858] , in which CD …
- … and letters from Henry Coe , 18 September 1858 and 6 October 1858 . CD did not refer to …
- … of kidney-beans (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 20 [October 1858] and to Gardeners’ …
- … 1858]). Subsequent correspondence indicates that Hooker had been experimenting on the fertilisation of Mucuna , a genus of tropical and subtropical Leguminosae. See letter …
To Skeffington Poole 22 October [1858]
Summary
Asks supplementary questions about Kattywar (Kathiawari) horses in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Skeffington Poole |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | Ronald Levine, Modern 1st Editions (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2346H |
Matches: 6 hits
- … to Skeffington Poole, 20 October [1858] , and letter from Skeffington Poole, [21 October …
- … 9). See this volume, Supplement, letter to Skeffington Poole, 20 October [1858] and n. 4. …
- … letter and the letter to Skeffington Poole, 20 October [1858] (this volume, Supplement). …
- … See this volume, Supplement, letter from Skeffington Poole, [21 October 1858] . See this …
- … this volume, Supplement, letter from Skeffington Poole, [21 October 1858] and n. 4. See …
- … See also Correspondence vol. 7, letter to W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] and n. 9. CD was …
To J. D. Hooker [17 February 1858]
Summary
General success of survey makes CD very concerned about sources of error. Wants to meet JDH for an important talk about big genera. Arranges meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2209 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 [July 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2306 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … from Frederick Smith, 26 February 1858 , and letter to Frederick Smith, [before 9 March …
- … Isle of Wight; these notes are in DAR 205.11(2): 94. See letter to Asa Gray, 4 July 1858 . …
- … CD and Hooker in a letter to his mother, dated 6 October 1858 ( Marchant 1916 , 1: 71). An …
- … Wedgwood’s home on 9 July 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The letters have not been found. …
- … meeting on 1 July 1858 were ordered as follows: first, the letter from Hooker and Lyell to …
- … CD’s letter to Asa Gray beforeit was read at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858 (see n. …
- … small genera (see letter to J. D. Hooker,12 January [1858] , n. 10, and Correspondence …
- … arrived in Sandown on the evening of 17 July. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 July [1858] . …
- … Letters and reminiscences. 2 vols. London: Cassell and Company. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. …
- … 1858 . CD was anxious to tabulate the work for his study of varieties in large and small genera (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] (see Correspondence vol.7, Appendix III); and fourth, Wallace’s essay entitled ‘On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type’ (see Correspondence vol.7, Appendix IV). The Darwin family left Sussex for the Isle of Wight on 16 July 1858 (‘ …
To J. D. Hooker [14 November 1858]
Summary
An enclosure sent with the letter to JDH, 14 November [1858] (Correspondence vol. 7) - questions and comments on lists of European species found in south-west Australia and Tasmania, and European genera found in Australia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [14 Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: E55–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2361F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 27 [November 1858] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 22 December 1858 . …
- … An enclosure sent with the letter to JDH, 14 November [1858] ( Correspondence vol. 7) - …
- … was sent with the letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 November [1858] ( Correspondence vol. 7). …
- … sent to CD with the letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 ( Correspondence vol. …
- … Correspondence vol. 7, letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 . ) Hooker refers to …
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [May–June 1858]
Summary
Calculations relating to bees’ cells.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [May–June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: B18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2195 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … W. E. Darwin, [26 May 1858] , and letters from E. A. Darwin, [ …
- … not been possible to date the letter more precisely: in May 1858 CD reported that he had ‘ …
- … after 8 June 1858] , and [19 June 1858] ). This letter and subsequent letters on the …
- … May 1858] ); but in June he was still investigating the geometry of cells (see letter to …
- … arranged in a honeycomb pattern. See also letter to W. H. Miller, [15 April 1858] . …
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … Babington, 22 February [1858], and letter from H. C. …
- … Hooker, 10 [March 1858] and 11 March [1858] , and letter from J. D. …
- … small genera to Hooker in May 1858 for his comments (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 6 May [ …
- … their opinion on the question (see letters to Asa Gray , 21 February [1858] , to C. C. …
- … visited the Darwins at Down, 17–21 June 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See preceding letter. …
- … See Appendix III for the changes made by CD. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 July [1858] . …
- … of Bentham 1858 is in DAR 100: 168. It was probably enclosed with the letter. The …
- … table is discussed by CD in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [July 1858] . CD had sent his …
- … Watson, 23 February [1858] ). Weddell 1856 . See letters to J. D. …
- … the enclosure of the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 April [1858] ). This was returned with …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 December [1857] ). In 1854, the East India Company had appointed Hooker a botanical examiner of the candidates for medical positions (L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 385). The proof-sheets of Darwin and Wallace 1858 …
- … 1858] . The results of Bentham and Hooker’s work on Indian Astragalus and Pedicularis were not published until the 1870s, when Hooker’s Flora of British India (7 vols. , London, 1872–97) was issued. Brown 1824 . Hooker had always maintained that books concerned with mundane natural orders would serve CD’s purposes better than those describing localised ones. See Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1858]
Summary
Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.
CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2282 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Hooker’s aunt. She died in August 1858 ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 August 1858] ). CD …
- … II). Robert Brown died on 10 June 1858. In a letter to Charles James Fox Bunbury , Charles …
- … insects might gain access to the stigma. See letter from Asa Gray, 21 June 1858 and CD’s …
- … accompanying note, and letter to Asa Gray, 4 July 1858 . His notes on experiments carried …
- … CD’s Experimental book,pp. 33–4 (DAR 157a). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 June [1858] . …
- … 6 May [1858] ). CD first mentioned his ‘principle of divergence’ in a letter to Asa Gray, …
From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858]
Summary
At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Nov 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: E1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2367 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Lyell (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 9[–10] November [1858] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, 12 November 1858 ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 November [1858] . …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 21 September 1858. In his letter, Vriese had failed to answer CD’s …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 November 1858] ). Hooker 1859 . See letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 14 November [1858] . The list may be DAR 50: E65. Letter from W. H. de Vriese …
From Henry Coe 12 October 1858
Summary
Answers CD’s queries about seed lot he has just sent.
| Author: | Henry Coe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2340 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 January [1859]
Summary
Wallace has written and is well satisfied with the joint presentation.
CD requests some facts to make case in his abstract for former glacial action in Himalayas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2403 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 25 June 1858] , and 26 [June 1858] , and letter from J. D. …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1858 . See letters to Charles Lyell , 18 [June 1858] , [ …
- … 1858 . Thomas Thomson had travelled with Hooker during part of his botanical expedition in the Himalayas. He had also collected plants in Kashmir and the western Himalayas, of which he published an account ( Thomson 1852 ). Jameson 1853 , p. 299. William Jameson was superintendent of the Saharanpur botanic garden from 1842 to 1875. See letter …
To J. D. Hooker [27 October or 3 November 1859]
Summary
More detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae]. Remarks on struggle of vegetation are admirable.
JDH will receive Origin in about ten days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 Oct or 3 Nov] 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2512 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 21 September 1858, was enclosed with the letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 …
- … 3 November [1858] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 November [1858] ). CD refers to the …
- … Down from 25 to 27 November 1858 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). The letter from W. H. de Vriese …
- … 1859 ) for his flora of Tasmania (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 and [ …
- … Darwin Library–CUL). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1858 and n. 11. Roderick …
- … the British Museum (see letters to R. I. Murchison, 19 June [1858] and 24 [June 1858] , …
- … or more large subject-based museums (see letters to T. H. Huxley, 23 October [1858] and …
- … 1858] ). It is possible that Hooker made this remark in connection with CD’s study of the number of varieties and species in large and small genera. See Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
To Leonard Jenyns 18 April [1858]
Summary
Thanks LJ for his MS [of "Variation of species", Rep. BAAS 26 (1856): 101–5].
Will read it at his hydropathic establishment [Moor Park], where he is going for a rest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2259 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Dated by the relationship to the letter to Leonard Jenyns, 9 April [1858] . …
- … Appendix II). See also letter to Leonard Jenyns, [28 April 1858] . Jenyns 1858 , a copy of …
- … which Jenyns sent to CD. See letter to Leonard Jenyns, 1 April [1858] . …
- … preceding letter. CD went to the Moor Park hydropathic establishment on 20 April 1858 and …
From Henry Coe 6 October 1858
Summary
Sends more bean seeds.
| Author: | Henry Coe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2336 |
From J. D. Hooker and Charles Lyell to the Linnean Society 30 June 1858
Summary
Communicate papers by CD and A. R. Wallace on "The Laws which affect the Production of Varieties, Races, and Species". Explain that CD and Wallace have, independently and unknown to each other, arrived at the same theory to account for the appearance and perpetuation of specific forms, and that neither has yet published, although CD first sketched his theory in 1839. Give their reasons for arranging the joint presentation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Linnean Society |
| Date: | 30 June 1858 |
| Classmark: | Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 3 (1859): 45–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2299 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … president, who had died on 10 June 1858 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 [June 1858] ). As …
- … the correct date (see letter to Asa Gray, 4 July 1858 ). Gray’s reply was apparently …
- … 27 July, now missing but acknowledged by CD in his letter to Asa Gray, 11 August [1858] . …
- … this letter was published as the introductory material to Darwin and Wallace 1858, p. 45– …
- … See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 July 1858 . The error was not corrected in the …
- … for publication. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 31 July 1858 . The dates and phrasing here …
- … letter has not been found. As a fellow (elected on 7 March 1854), Hooker was entitled to submit papers to the Linnean Society . The society’s final meeting of the session had been scheduled for 17 June 1858, …
- … 1858, for the perusal of his friend and correspondent Mr. Darwin, and sent to him with the expressed wish that it should be forwarded to Sir Charles Lyell, if Mr. Darwin thought it sufficiently novel and interesting. So highly did Mr. Darwin appreciate the value of the views therein set forth, that he proposed, in a letter …
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1858]
Summary
Writing section on large and small genera [for Natural selection, ch. 4].
Huxley supersedes Owen on parthenogenesis.
Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2248 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 23 February [1858] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [25] February [ …
- … see DAR 45, 46.1, 47, 205.2, and 205.11 (2): 78–80). Jenyns 1858 . See following letter. …
- … 1842–53 . T. H. Huxley 1858 . See the two preceding letters. See Correspondence vol. 6, …
- … 1858 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 23). CD and Hooker had met Henry Thomas Buckle at a dinner party (see letter …
- … 1858, noting: ‘(the best Travels I ever read)’ ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 23). The book had been recommended to him by Hooker in 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
To Asa Gray 11 August [1858]
Summary
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2321 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1859] . See letter from Asa Gray, 21 June 1858 and letter to Asa Gray, 4 July 1858 . CD’s …
- … Gray’s note has not been found. It was a reply to CD’s letter to Asa Gray, 4 July 1858 . …
- … Expedition ( A. Gray 1858–9 ). See Correspondence vol. 6, letter from Asa Gray, 16 …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 August 1858] and n. 5. CD’s explanation of the effect of …
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Life sciences in Commentary
The evolution of honeycomb
Summary
Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Honey-bees construct wax combs inside their nests. The combs are made of hexagonal prisms – cells …
Cross and self fertilisation
Summary
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom , published on 10 November …
