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] , …
To J. D. Hooker 31 May [1866]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s list – very good, but Orchids and Primula paper have too indirect a bearing to be worth mentioning. The Eozoon is a very important fact and to a much lesser degree the Archaeopteryx. Müller’s Für Darwin [1864] perhaps the most important contribution.
CD has forgotten to mention Bates on variation and JDH’s Arctic paper ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348] in new edition of Origin.
Now finds that Owen claims to be originator of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 290 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5106 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 May 1866]
Summary
Caspary wants to visit Down. CD would like to see him but dreads the exertion.
Pleased that JDH will get D.C.L. at Oxford.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 May 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 288 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5088 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 May [1866]
Summary
Glad to see Asa Gray’s letter.
Asks whether he may insert a sentence about Cape Verde alpine plants in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Fears "twaddle" may also be the word for his two chapters on cultivated plants. Asks for Crawfurd’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 289, 289b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5091 |
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
