To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2290 |
To J. S. Henslow 6 August [1856]
Summary
Reports on results of forcing and other attempts to produce variations in plants. Asks for some seeds.
Is correcting his Linnean Society paper ["On the action of sea-water", Collected papers 1: 264–71].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 6 Aug [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A55–A56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1939 |
To Charles Lyell 20 November [1860]
Summary
Admires Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions, but it will discourage investigation of distribution.
Mentions Oswald Heer’s proposed map of Atlantis.
Discusses extinction of plants caused by the glacial era. Migration of plants and animals during glacial period.
Encourages CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].
Comments on unfriendly reviews. Asks CL’s opinion about including a reply to reviewers in next edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2989 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 June [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of Mrs Hooker’s health and domestic problems. Wishes natural selection had produced neuters who would not flirt or marry.
Will be eager to hear Cameroon results.
Wishes JDH would discuss the "mundane glacial period". Still believes it will be "the turning point of all recent geographical distribution".
Pollen placed for 65 hours on apparent (CD still thinks real) stigma of Leschenaultia has not protruded a vestige of a tube.
"Oliver the omniscient" has produced an article in Botanische Zeitung with accurate account of all CD saw in Viola.
Asa Gray’s "red-hot" praise of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3597 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 9 June 1862 . In his letter of 9 June 1862 , Hooker had written of Frances Harriet Hooker : ‘My wife is very thin & watery, lacks energy, blood & muscle’. Miss Pugh had been governess at Down House between 1857 …
- … 1857 . See letter to Daniel Oliver, [before 11 June 1862] . See letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 . CD’s allusion to politics refers to the strained correspondence between Gray and some of his English correspondents in the wake of the so-called ‘ Trent affair’ (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
To J. D. Hooker 19 January [1865]
Summary
"Climbing plants" sent off.
Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.
Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]
and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].
Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.
Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!
"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 258a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4748 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1864]
Summary
Thanks for Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy [1864].
If Owen wrote article on "Oken" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed.] and French work on archetype he never did a baser act [see ML 1: 246 n.].
Bad health lately.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4459 |
To Daniel Oliver [before 11 June 1862]
Summary
Asa Gray approves of Orchids; his work on American species confirms CD’s findings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [before 11 June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 33 (EH 88206016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3583 |
To Leonard Jenyns 1 April [1858]
Summary
Thanks LJ for his book [Observations in meteorology (1858)].
CD has been working on his species book [Natural selection].
Has become dreadfully heterodox on immutability of species.
His work on pigeons: variation under domestication throws the greatest light on variation in a state of nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 1 Apr [1858] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2251 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858]
Summary
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 22 [Sept 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2328 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1858]
Summary
Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.
His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2384 |
To Asa Gray 1 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks AG for 2d part of "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403].
Is glad AG concludes species of large genera are wide-ranging, but is "riled" that he thinks the line of connection of alpine plants is through Greenland. Mentions comparisons of ranges worth investigating.
Believes trees show a tendency toward separation of the sexes and wonders if U. S. species bear this out. Asks which genera are protean in U. S.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2034 |
To Ernst Haeckel [after 10] August – 8 October [1864]
Summary
Can understand EH’s feelings on death of his wife.
CD was impressed by manner in which species in South America are replaced by closely allied ones, by affinity of species inhabiting islands near S. America, and by relation of living Edentata and Rodentia to extinct species. When he read Malthus On population, the idea of natural selection flashed on him.
Agrees with EH’s remarks on Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
Asks EH to thank Carl Gegenbaur [for Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbelthiere (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | [after 10] Aug – 8 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4631 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.
Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.
"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".
Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3541 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hooker’s home had recently been burgled (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] ). In his letter of [5 May 1862] , Hooker mentioned that he hoped to invite William Erasmus Darwin to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the near future. See also letter to W. E. Darwin, [8 May 1862] . From January 1857 …
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 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 12 November 1857]
Summary
Asks writer of an article on weeds why he supposes "there is too much reason to believe that foreign seed of an indigenous species is often more prolific than that grown at home?" The point is of interest to CD "in regard to the great battle of life which is perpetually going on all around us". Cites analogous observations by Asa Gray and J. D. Hooker. Does writer know "of any other analogous cases of a weed introduced from another land beating out … a weed previously common in any particular field or farm?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 12 Nov 1857] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 14 November 1857, p. 779 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2169 |
To Charles James Fox Bunbury [20 March 1855]
Summary
CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Date: | [20 Mar 1855] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13784 |
To Edward Sabine 23 April [1856]
Summary
CD and Hooker suggest Sir John Richardson for Royal Medal. Other suggestions are George Bentham, Joseph Prestwich, Albany Hancock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sabine |
Date: | 23 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (Sa: 387) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1858 |
To Charles Lyell 26 April [1858]
Summary
Comments on letter from Georg Hartung to CL dealing with erratic boulders.
Discusses migration of plants and animals.
A letter from Thomas Thomson on heat endured by temperate plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 Apr [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.151) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2262 |
To Asa Gray 29 November [1857]
Summary
Thanks AG for his criticisms of CD’s views; finds it difficult to avoid using the term "natural selection" as an agent.
Discusses crossing in Fumaria and barnacles.
Has received a naturally crossed kidney bean in which the seed-coat has been affected by the pollen of the fertilising plant.
Finds the rule of large genera having most varieties holds good and regards it as most important for his "principle of divergence".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 29 Nov [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2176 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1862]
Summary
CD wishes he could sympathise with Asa Gray’s politics.
Orchids to appear soon.
Pre-glacial Arctic distribution.
Work on floral dimorphism.
High opinion of Buckle as a writer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3468 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (81) |
Gray, Asa | (13) |
Lyell, Charles | (7) |
Oliver, Daniel | (7) |
Huxley, T. H. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (166) |
Hooker, J. D. | (81) |
Gray, Asa | (13) |
Lyell, Charles | (7) |
Oliver, Daniel | (7) |