To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3085 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 November [1866]
Summary
Requests roots of two species of Mirabilis for "a curious experiment in crossing".
Has subscribed £10 to Jamaica committee to prosecute Governor Eyre.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5281 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 August [1868]
Summary
Pleased at success of JDH’s address. Has read several press reports.
Spectator pitches into JDH about theology ["Dr Hooker on the evidences", 22 Aug 1868, pp. 986–7].
Feels JDH has "immensely advanced the belief in evolution of species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 85–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6327 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1872]
Summary
Is sorry JDH cannot come to Down.
Hopes the House of Lords "pitch into the accursed fellow" [Ayrton].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 May [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8330 |
To J. D. Hooker [8–10 September 1868]
Summary
Has written to A. J. Gower.
Sends more copies of Queries about expression.
Pall Mall Gazette article [see 6342] is monstrous to say religion did not attack science. Should scientific men ignore whole subject of religion?
Sends French journal with article on JDH and one (weak) by Agassiz on geographical distribution.
M. J. Berkeley has sent his address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7].
CD differs with JDH on Owen; could hardly bear to shake hands with him.
Wallaces, Blyth, Jenner Weirs are coming to stay on Sunday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8–10 Sept 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 91–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6357 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1863]
Summary
Naudin has not answered CD’s letter.
Reactions of Candolle, Naudin, Decaisne, and Gaston de Saporta to Origin.
CD’s new hothouse.
CD’s Linum paper.
JDH’s work on Welwitschia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3953 |
To J. D. Hooker [20–]22 February [1864]
Summary
Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.
Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.
Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?
Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20–]22 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 221a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4412 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 August 1873
Summary
Asks JDH to inquire of gardeners at Kew what they think about injury to plants from watering during sunshine. Wishes to experiment. He is already convinced that drops of water do not act as burning lenses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 272–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9017 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 January [1873]
Summary
Drosophyllum arrived; none of his observations turned out as he expected, but nevertheless he understands its habits better than he did. The secreting hairs that he observed may be explained as a mere chemical reaction.
Comments on various articles he has read.
Asks for Thiselton-Dyer’s notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 253–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8185 |
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 26 [March 1862]
Summary
Both JDH’s and Bates’s letters are excellent. JDH has said all that can be said against direct effect of conditions, but CD still sticks to his own and Bates’s side. CD should have done what JDH suggests (since naturally he is pleased to attribute little to conditions) – viz., started on the fundamental principle that variation is innate and stated that afterwards, perhaps, this principle would be made explicable. Variation will show that "use and disuse" have some effect. Does not believe in perfect reversion. Demurs at JDH’s "centrifugal variation"; the doctrine of the good of diversification amply accounts for variation being centrifugal.
The wonderful mechanism of Mormodes ignea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3484 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 April [1876]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 406 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10457 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2306 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 [April 1874]
Summary
C. V. Riley’s case of Pronuba moth and the fertilisation of Yucca, is the most wonderful case of fertilisation ever published [Am. Nat. 7 (1873): 619–23].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 [Apr 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9395 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 January [1862]
Summary
Entire family down with influenza. Has done nothing for three weeks.
Asks for Haast reference on New Zealand glacial deposits.
CD’s view of the North since Trent case. Can no longer write with sympathy to Asa Gray.
Encourages JDH about his son, Willy.
Problem of relation of colour to external conditions. Hopes JDH will undertake the investigation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3391 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [January 1878]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 [Jan 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 466 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11322 |
To J. D. Hooker [30 October 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [30 Oct 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4324 |
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 23 April [1863]
Summary
Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.
Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.
Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4122 |
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