From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
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 Asa Gray 4 July 1858
Summary
Believes that, in Dicentra, Fumaria and Corydalis, flower structures are related directly to visits from bees. Flower stigmas generally are placed in the path of bees.
Has received paper from Wallace on natural selection; has sent abstract of his notions, with Wallace’s paper, to Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 4 July 1858 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2302 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1857] . See letter to Charles Lyell, 18 [June 1858] . Alfred Russel Wallace had set out for New Guinea on 25 March 1858. He returned to the island of Ternate three or four months later ( Wallace 1905 ,1: 363–4). CD’s and Wallace’s papers had been read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858. See letter from J. D. Hooker …
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
