To J. D. Hooker 16 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7949 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Huxley ; see letter from J. D Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 and n. 4. See, …
- … the letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 . CD refers to Hooker’s …
- … to visit the Darwins (see letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 ). …
- … In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked CD to send him Henry …
- … lived in Southampton. In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked …
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1871]
Summary
Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.
Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.
Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.
Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 July [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 199–200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7878 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 25 August 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Henrietta Emma Darwin was engaged to marry …
- … Richard Buckley Litchfield (see Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 204). St George Jackson Mivart’s …
- … in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma Darwin ( …
- … 1915): Emma Darwin: a century of family letters, 1792–1896. Edited by Henrietta …
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1871]
Summary
Sends proofs of Huxley’s article on Mivart, to be published in Contemporary Review ["Mr Darwin’s critics", 18 (1871): 443–76].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7977 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for information about Henslow’s mouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 July [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7881 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 January [1871]
Summary
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7448 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [June 1871]
Summary
Delighted to hear from Lyell of JDH’s return from successful ascent of the Atlas Mts.
Fears JDH found no Madeira or Canary types, but CD is pleased at his moraine discovery.
Thinks Lyell’s health is serious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [June 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 195–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7838 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1871]
Summary
CD is considering repeating experiments on melastomads in which different pollen sizes produced differing seedling sizes.
Responds to JDH’s query on differences in pollen within the same species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 445–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8087 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [December 1871]
Summary
Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [Dec 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8106 |