To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
To Daniel Oliver 24–5 March [1863]
Summary
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 24–5 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4059 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [July 1863]
Summary
Asa Gray writes as if Civil War were a holy war.
J. E. Renan on Jesus [Vie de Jésus (1863)].
Literature on tendrils of Cucurbita is contradictory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4254 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1863]
Summary
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3892 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1857] and nn. 7–8). It was intended that when the collection was completed the Purbeck fossils would be transferred to Owen for description and publication ( Falconer 1857b , p. 262). Lyell apparently transferred the fossils to Owen earlier than had been arranged. Owen published descriptions of the fossils in 1871 ( Owen 1871 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
To Isaac Anderson-Henry 2 February [1863]
Summary
Suggests collecting seeds at different heights from British Columbia.
Describes experiment on seeds from short anthers.
C. V. Naudin writes he has discovered cause of hybrid sterility.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3964 |
Matches: 1 hit
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1863]
Summary
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4250 |
To Asa Gray 11 May [1863]
Summary
CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.
Is confused over phyllotaxy.
Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153 |
To Charles Lyell 4 [February 1863]
Summary
Thanks CL for "the great book" [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Richard Owen "ought to be ostracised by every Naturalist in England".
CL’s book will "give the whole subject of change of species an enormous advance".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 4 [Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.287) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3967 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1857 ). Lyell reviewed the controversy surrounding Owen’s thesis in some detail in the last chapter of Antiquity of man , supporting Owen’s chief opponent in the debate, Thomas Henry Huxley ( C. Lyell 1863a , pp. 480–500). Owen responded with a long and vitriolic letter to the Athenæum , 21 February 1863, pp. 262–3, which fuelled further controversy (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
