To J. D. Hooker 3 June [1858]
Summary
CD’s receipt of diploma from Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Academy [Dresden].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 June [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2279 |
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 23 [June 1858]
Summary
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] very ill with diphtheria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 238 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2290 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 240 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2298 |
From Asa Gray 21 June 1858
Summary
Self-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
[CD note on bees’ visiting some members of Fumariaceae.]
| 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, …
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 June 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2297 |
From J. D. Hooker and Charles Lyell to the Linnean Society 30 June 1858
Summary
Communicate papers by CD and A. R. Wallace on "The Laws which affect the Production of Varieties, Races, and Species". Explain that CD and Wallace have, independently and unknown to each other, arrived at the same theory to account for the appearance and perpetuation of specific forms, and that neither has yet published, although CD first sketched his theory in 1839. Give their reasons for arranging the joint presentation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Linnean Society |
| Date: | 30 June 1858 |
| Classmark: | Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 3 (1859): 45–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2299 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 8 [June 1858] ). As Brown was a member of council at the time of his death, a new council member had, according to statute, to be elected within three months. Rather than call a special meeting of the society during the summer recess, the council decided to prolong the session of 1857– …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Linnean Society | (1) |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Linnean Society | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
