From J. D. Hooker 7 April 1868
Summary
Goes to N. Wales with Huxley.
Wishes to borrow Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law.
The BAAS Presidential Address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv] – his unhappiness about it; history of botany requires too much reading.
Smith will supply notes on Euryale.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 208–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6099 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1868
Summary
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 233–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6349 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 218–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6254 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 March 1868]
Summary
Now quite understands Pangenesis. Satisfaction given by it, as CD says, may depend on one’s mental constitution. In all cases of descent JDH has always thought "all the properties of the parents are transmitted in the one cell and were diffused to every part of the future offspring".
Tyndall believes he feels atoms as firmly as St Paul believed he saw Christ.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Mar 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 204–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5971 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1868
Summary
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5831 |