From J. D. Hooker 24 December 1865
Summary
Oliver says H. E. Baillon found stamens on female flowers of Coelebogyne, but JDH and many botanists have never found any stamens.
Lyell wants to propose JDH for Copley Medal.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4955 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 and nn. 3–5. In a paper presented to the Société Botanique de France in Paris, Ernest-Henri Baillon reported having possibly observed an immature or underdeveloped stamen in the female flower of Coelebogyne ilicifolia ; however, he was unable to confirm that the material extracted from the supposed anthers was in fact pollen grains ( Baillon 1857 , …
From J. D. Hooker 2 November 1862
Summary
Stupefied by CD’s five forms of Lythrum.
Asa Gray busy with Cypripedium. JDH offers some to CD if he wants to challenge Gray.
J. W. Dawson’s review of JDH’s paper on Arctic plants.
Louis Lucien Bonaparte’s views on Basque and Finnish language [Langue basque et langues finnoises (1862)] suggest to JDH that Basques are Finns left behind after the glacial period, like the Arctic plants!
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 66–7, 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3792 |
From Asa Gray 21 June 1858
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2288 |
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- … 1857] ). CD investigated the subject experimentally in June 1858 (see n. 2, below). The note forms part of CD’s record of observations made in May and June on the fertilisation of these and similar leguminous flowers by bees. The letter is bound with CD’s other slips and notes on the topic in DAR 76. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, …
From A. R. Wallace 9 July 1881
Summary
Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13238 |
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- … 1857–61. History of civilization in England. 2 vols. London: John W. Parker & Son. Darwin, Charles and Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1858. On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection … Communicated by Sir Charles Lyell … and J. D. Hooker. [ …
From Daniel Oliver [1 April 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4443 |
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From A. R. Wallace 2 October 1865
Summary
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B27–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4906 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1862]
Summary
Wife’s health improved by trip.
Heer’s collections convince JDH that Miocene vegetation was Himalayan, not American, as Heer supposed.
Zurich promises to be a good natural history school.
Review of Natural History Review in Parthenon [1 (1862): 373–5].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 171, DAR 101: 48–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3665 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 10 July 1862 , and L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 401–2). In attempting to explain the resemblance between the Tertiary flora of Europe and Madeira, and the present flora of Atlantic North America, Heer had argued that, during the Miocene era, there must have existed an Atlantic land-bridge between Europe and North America, which was subsequently submerged, with the exception of the various Atlantic islands (Heer 1857 …
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1864
Summary
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 208–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4469 |
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From H. C. Watson 3 January 1858
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199 |
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- … 1857] ). CD evidently wrote again with questions about the ranges of varieties as compared with species. The fourth volume of Watson 1847–59 was published in 1859. CD’s copies of all four volumes, presented to him by Watson, are in the Darwin Library–CUL. Volume four is annotated by CD. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
From Edward Blyth [1–8 October 1855]
Summary
Notes on Lyell’s Principles, vol. 2.
EB does not believe in connecting links between genera; there is no tendency to gradation between groups of animals.
Does not believe shortage of food can directly produce any heritable effect on size.
Comments on significance of variations discussed by Lyell. Variation in dentition and coloration.
Behaviour of elephants and monkeys.
When varieties are crossed EB considers that the form of the offspring, whether intermediate or like one or other of the parents, depends upon how nearly related the parents are.
Thinks that in the struggle for existence hybrids, and varieties generally, must be expected to give way to the "beautiful & minute adaptation" of the pure types.
Colours of Indian birds.
Vitality of seeds.
Variation among palms.
Fauna of Malaysia and New Zealand. Ranges of bird species.
[Memorandum originally enclosed with 1760.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1–8 Oct 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A37–A50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1762 |
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From Hugh Falconer 3 November 186[4]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 186[4] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4652 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 26[–8] October 1864 and n. 23). The reference is to Gaspard Auguste Brullé , professor of entomology and comparative anatomy at Dijon University ( DBF ). CD had read Brullé’s essay on embryological homologies ( Brullé 1844 ) in 1846 or 1847, when he was beginning his work on barnacles (see Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix II, and Correspondence vol. 6, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 July [1857] , …
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
From William Henry Harvey 3 January 1857
Summary
Sexes of algae.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2035 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 21 [May 1856] ). Harvey had recently returned from a three-year visit to Ceylon and Australia, during which he had made extensive collections of Algae and other botanical and marine invertebrate specimens ( Memoir of W. H. Harvey … with selections from his journal and correspondence (London, 1869), pp. 244–312). Neither CD nor Hooker attended the Dublin meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 26 August – 2 September 1857. …
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1878
Summary
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 118–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11718 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 5 October [1878] and n. 6). In the issue, now in the unbound journal collection in the Darwin Archive–CUL, CD scored a section of F. B. White 1878 , p. 458, from ‘fauna is Palæarctic’ to ‘Syria’, and underlined ‘one or two genera of plants’. The term Palaearctic (referring to temperate parts of Europe and Asia) was coined by Philip Lutley Sclater , as one of his six zoological regions ( Sclater 1857 ). …
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