To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1858]
Summary
Six volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus confirm rule that small genera vary less than large. Labiatae an exception to rule.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2212 |
To John Stevens Henslow 25 January [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 25 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2207 |
To W. E. Darwin [30 October 1858]
Summary
Glad WED has begun under George Henslow in the way that he has. CD wishes he had had such practice under J. S. Henslow.
Has had luck in his search for striped horses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [30 Oct 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2350 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1858]
Summary
Writing section on large and small genera [for Natural selection, ch. 4].
Huxley supersedes Owen on parthenogenesis.
Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Mar [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2248 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 6, letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 December 1857] ). Notes on Livingstone 1857 are …
- … Hooker, 23 February [1858] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [25] February [1858] ). Livingstone 1857 . …
- … 1857–61 , which CD recorded having read early in 1858 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 23). CD and Hooker had met Henry Thomas Buckle at a dinner party (see letter to J. D. …
To ? 26 March [1858?]
Summary
Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 26 Mar [1858?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.34) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2246 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [March 1858]
Summary
Heartened that tabulations of small and large genera done in different ways yield good results. JDH has done some tabulations but has not followed CD’s method of getting equal numbers of small and large genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Mar 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 227 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2237 |
To J. D. Hooker 9[–10] November [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9[–10] Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2355 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 June [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 June [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2279 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 17 January [1858]
Summary
Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 17 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2205 |
To Asa Gray 21 February [1858]
Summary
Asks whether botanists tend to record varieties more carefully in large genera or small genera.
Wants information on the ranges of varieties of a species compared to the range of the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2218 |
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 December [1857] ). Ebenezer Norman compiled the tables …
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 August [1857] ). Frances Harriet Hooker apparently …
- … 1857] (see Correspondence vol.7, Appendix III); and fourth, Wallace’s essay entitled ‘On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type’ (see Correspondence vol.7, Appendix IV). The Darwin family left Sussex for the Isle of Wight on 16 July 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). Emma Darwin’s diary records that they spent the night of 16 July in Portsmouth and arrived in Sandown on the evening of 17 July. See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To Thomas Henry Huxley 24 February [1858]
Summary
Congratulations on birth of THH’s daughter [Jessie].
On aboriginal dun colour of horses.
Examples of inaccuracies and perpetuation of errors [on hybrids] by "compilers, of which I am one".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 24 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2224 |
To Richard Kippist 10 March [1858]
Summary
In great want of two books, which he had borrowed previously: Boreau Flora du Centre de la France and A. E. Fürnrohr, Naturhistorische Topographie von Regensburg, Bd 2 Flora Ratisbonensis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 10 Mar [1858] |
Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (15 November 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2238 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] , and n. 13). Emma Darwin recorded …
- … J. D. Hooker, 9 November 1856 . The Philosophical Club of the Royal Society, of which both CD and Hooker were members, met monthly. A meeting was held on 21 January 1858 ( Bonney 1919 , p. 137). Leonard Darwin , who had just turned 8, had experienced a breakdown in his health in 1857 ( …
- … 1857, during which time Lyell had geologised extensively. After his return, he reported in January 1858: ‘My tour was unusually profitable, first in the glaciers and then the volcanos. ’ (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 279). See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [April 1858]
Summary
Confidential revelation concerning W. F. Daniell.
Georg Hartung confirms CD’s supposition from flora of Azores that icebergs had been stranded there.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Apr 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2263 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1858]
Summary
Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.
CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2282 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 6, letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] . Hooker persisted in this opinion. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 2 November [1858] ). CD refers to the speech to be made at the presentation of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal to Charles Lyell at the anniversary meeting on 30 November 1858 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 9 (1857– …
To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 7 February [1858]
Summary
Thanks GHKT for letter on plant acclimatisation and variation among alpine and lowland forms in Ceylon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 7 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.150) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2211 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1858]
Summary
Abstract growing to inordinate length.
Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2335 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 [October 1858]
Summary
Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].
JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.
Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 [Oct 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 250 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2345 |
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Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Kippist, Richard | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |