From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [21 March 1866]
Summary
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [21 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5078 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Hooker, J. D. Wedgwood, Emma Darwin, Emma …
- … From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin [21 March 1866] …
- … DAR 102: 67 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [21 Mar 1866] Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin …
- … Wednesday after 19 March was 21 March. Emma Darwin’s letter has not been found. Frances …
- … Hooker and J. D. Hooker visited Down in June 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Hooker arrived at Down on Saturday 24 March 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
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: 8 hits
- … Frances Harriet Hooker , visited from 23 to 29 June ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … Henrietta Emma Darwin was in France (see letter from H. E. Darwin, [ c. 10 May 1866] and …
- … 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
- … Royal Society of London on 28 April 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). The event is …
- … 5 May 1866, pp. 597–8. According to Emma Darwin , many of CD’s old friends did not …
- … of them, as his beard alters him so’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 185). Hooker refers to John …
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1863] , …
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1866
Summary
Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5139 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 February 1866
Summary
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 59, 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5013 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 March 1866]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5077 |
From J. D. Hooker [22 November 1866]
Summary
His views on the Eyre controversy.
Went to Shrewsbury (for sale of Susan’s effects), hoping to buy some Wedgwood medallions, but they had been bought.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Nov 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 112–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5283 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 May 1866
Summary
JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5104 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1866
Summary
Drosera and Erica massoni have been sent.
Had heard of Agassiz’s theory but not that CD’s theory had raised it.
JDH wrote the article on A. Murray.
Frankland’s lecture too much for him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 106–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5222 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1866
Summary
Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.
"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."
Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.
Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].
Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.
Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.
Balfour Stewart on sunspots.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 114–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5294 |
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 14 December 1866
Summary
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 121–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5305 |
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