To John Lubbock 5 April [1863]
Summary
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4075 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … was the reviewer. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 March 1863] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Worcestershire (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ). In 1861, Lubbock moved …
- … Hooker, [31 March 1863] . Owen wrote that the mud or slime at the bottom of seas, lakes, and rivers contained a vital energy or force that ‘condensed into a protoplasmic centre’, eventually creating organisms ‘of all low grades of organization’ like the Foraminifera ( Athenæum , 28 March 1863, p. 417, and Appendix VII). See also letter to J. D. …
From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
From F. H. Hooker 13 September [1865]
Summary
J. D. Hooker’s health is improving;
he has been offered the Directorship at Kew.
| Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 235–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4893 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Hooker, [28 September 1863] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 October 1863] ). William …
- … Hooker refers to The naturalist on the River Amazons ( Bates 1863 ); however, the allusion has not been identified. See letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker’s daughter, died on 28 September 1863 aged 6 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. …
- … For CD’s view of Thury 1863 , see the letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] …
- … Bentham, 19 June [1863] and n. 7, and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] …
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] and n. 4). Johann Müller . Alphonse de Candolle . Marc Thury , professor of botany at the Faculté des Sciences, Geneva, had published an article on the laws governing the production of sexes in plants, animals, and humans ( Thury 1863 ). …
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 February 1864
Summary
John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.
Himalayan pine in Macedonia.
JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4401 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … this equatorial region of Africa ( J. D. Hooker 1863 ). That these same species had been …
- … vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [1 March 1863] ). CD had attended a reception at the …
- … Hooker, 26 December [1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, 24 …
- … Hooker had suggested in 1863 and 1864 that CD sit for the sculptor Thomas Woolner (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker 29 March 1864
Summary
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 193–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4439 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 January 1863 , and L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 77–9). …
- … vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 January 1863] and n. 9. In 1863, Falconer and …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 April [1863] and nn. 7–10). See …
- … vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 23 October 1863 ). In 1863, Hooker had noticed the …
- … vol. 11, letters from J. D. Hooker, 23 October 1863 and nn. 4–7, and [1 or 3 …
- … 1863, James Hector explored the west coast of Otago province, New Zealand, and discovered an overland route between the west and east coasts ( Hector 1864a , DNZB ); he published an account of the expedition in Hector 1864a . Hector’s letters to Hooker are in the Library and Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174). See also Yaldwyn and Hobbs eds. 1998. Hooker refers to Joseph Beete Jukes and to Andrew Crombie Ramsay (see letter to J. D. …
To Andrew Murray 2 November [1864]
Summary
Wishes AM success in undertaking his work on geographical distribution [The geographical distribution of mammals (1866)]. CD has no suggestions to make as he has not recently attended to the subject.
He is still weak after his long illness and supposes he will ever remain so.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4649 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Hooker, [24 March 1863] , and letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 26 [March 1863] ). These photographs are referred to in the letter from J. D. …
- … Bentham , [ c. 14 April 1863], and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February …
- … Hooker had borrowed a Wedgwood portrait medallion of Erasmus Darwin from CD in 1863 so that a copy could be made for the museum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. …
- … 1863] ). See also Autobiography , p. 49, and Glick and Kohn eds. 1996, p. 216. Hooker visited Francis Wedgwood at Barlaston, Staffordshire, on 7 May 1864, and evidently travelled to nearby Lichfield, Staffordshire (see letter from J. D. …
- … 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11), and had largely finished writing the draft of ‘Climbing plants’ on 13 September 1864 after four months’ work (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II)). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, …
From J. D. Hooker [17 May 1866]
Summary
W. H. Harvey is dead. His loss to science.
Will get a copy of Crawfurd’s paper. It was such trash he tore his up.
His letter to Asa Gray was about his [JDH’s] proof that America will have an aristocracy from interbreeding of wealth, intellect, and beauty; and the lower classes, not having time for politics, will leave them to the aforementioned.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 May 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 75–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5093 |
From Julius von Haast 5 March 1863
Summary
Sends copy of his December letter [see 3851], which he fears is lost.
Has been in the Southern Alps and has discovered a wonderful pass.
| Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4026 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Dalton Hooker of 5 March 1863 that arrived in mid-June 1863 (see letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, 20 April 1863 and [30 April 1863] , and letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker received Haast’s letter in mid-April 1863, but either he lost Haast’s letter to CD, or Haast failed to enclose it as promised (see letters from J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 21 [September 1862] and nn. 6 and 7. J. F. J. von Haast 1862a and 1862b (see letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January 1863 ). …
- … Hooker, 23 April [1863] ). For reasons of clarity, the copy of Haast’s letter has been reproduced here, in addition to being reproduced in its proper chronological position ( Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Julius von Haast, 9 December 1862 ). See the enclosure to the letter from J. D. …
To John Scott 23 May [1863]
Summary
Has written to Hooker for his advice about the Darjeeling position. JS should not refuse the position on account of his experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B15–16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4183 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1863] . Joseph Dalton Hooker was assistant director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and had travelled to Darjeeling in April 1848 ( J. D. …
- … Himalayas. J. D. Hooker 1854b , 1: 113–176. See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 and …
- … 1863 . Letters from John Scott , 21 May [1863] and 22 May 1863 . In his letter to CD of 22 May 1863 , Scott had asked CD’s advice about a post he had been offered in Darjeeling, India. See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
From J. D. Hooker 19 June 1863
Summary
Has heard from Julius von Haast that some of his letters were lost before leaving New Zealand. Haast’s enclosure for CD has been forwarded.
Haast and James Hector have both sent accounts of their travels in New Zealand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4216 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 19 June 1863 …
- … found, but see the letter from J. D. Hooker, [30 April 1863] and n. 2. The reference is …
- … Hooker probably refers to articles in the Christchurch Press , 1 April 1863, pp. 1–2, and 2 April 1863, pp. 2–3; these articles described Haast’s 1862–3 expedition in the Southern Alps of New Zealand’s Middle Island (now South Island) (see the enclosure to the letter from J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 12 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.
Opinion of Humboldt.
Origin of higher phanerogams.
Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 524–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13288 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Hooker, [9 May 1863] , and letter from J. D. …
- … equatorial region of Africa (see Hooker 1863 and Correspondence vol. 11, letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, [24 May 1863] ; see also Origin 6th ed. , p. 337). Alfred Russel Wallace had mentioned the recent findings of John Gilbert Baker as confirmation of his views on the migration of plants across mountain chains (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 1 January 1881 and nn. 1 and 2). CD had commented on Wallace’s Island life ( Wallace 1880a ) in his letter to J. D. …
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … see, for example, letters to J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1863] and [27 January 1864] ( …
- … vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] ); however, in 1863 and 1864 CD was …
- … J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1857] ), and he examined flower specimens of the species in June 1863 …
- … Hooker, 26 December [1863] ; see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 December [1864] ). For discussions of CD’s illness, see Bowlby 1990 , pp. 370–8, F. Smith 1990 and 1992, Browne 1998 , and Colp 1998 . See also Appendix IV. An abstract of ‘Climbing plants’ was read at the meeting of the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865. See letter from J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 23 May [1863]
Summary
Seeks advice for John Scott on job offer in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4180 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 23 May [1863] …
- … J. D. Hooker, 20 February – 16 [March] 1848 . See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 …
- … 1863 . CD was seeking advice on John Scott’s behalf about a situation Scott had been offered in Darjeeling, India. See also following letter. James McNab was curator of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and Scott’s immediate superior. Hooker had visited Darjeeling in April 1848 ( J. D. …
From Asa Gray 11 April 1863
Summary
The war is nearly finished, "rebeldom is ""gone up"" ".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4081 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 April [1864]
Summary
Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.
CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 227a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4450 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] and n. 5). On CD’s disagreement …
- … 27 November 1863 and nn. 6–8, and 10. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] and …
- … and n.10. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 April 1864] . In May 1863 Scott had expressed …
- … Hooker in his letter of 10 June 1863 ( Correspondence vol. 11), and in this volume, in Scott’s letters to CD of 7 January [1864] and 12 [February 1864]. See letter from J. D. …
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