From J. D. Hooker [23 March 1862]
Summary
Lighthearted thoughts on "the development of an Aristocracy" after a visit to Walcot Hall, Shropshire.
On CD’s point about the effect of changed conditions on the reproductive organs, JDH does not see why this is not "itself a variation, not necessarily induced by domestication, but accompanying some variety artificially selected".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 27–9; American Philosophical Society Library (Hooker papers, B/H76.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3480 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … insect forms in the letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 July [1857] ( Correspondence vol. 6). CD …
- … Correspondence vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 June [1857] ). Hooker described his …
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 April 1857] ). However, he subsequently stated that …
- … Hooker, 8 June 1860 , and letters to J. D. Hooker, 29 [May 1860] , 5 June [1860] , and 12 [June 1860] ). CD discussed his ideas on reversion with Hooker during the preparation of his ‘big book’ on species in 1857 ( …
- … J. D. Hooker 1853 , p. x. Hooker had expressed the view that climate had little direct influence on the form of plants during correspondence with CD, in April and May 1857, …
To J. D. Hooker [10–]12 November [1862]
Summary
So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.
Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.
Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.
Is working on cultivated plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10–]12 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3801 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1862]
Summary
Both JDH’s and Bates’s letters are excellent. JDH has said all that can be said against direct effect of conditions, but CD still sticks to his own and Bates’s side. CD should have done what JDH suggests (since naturally he is pleased to attribute little to conditions) – viz., started on the fundamental principle that variation is innate and stated that afterwards, perhaps, this principle would be made explicable. Variation will show that "use and disuse" have some effect. Does not believe in perfect reversion. Demurs at JDH’s "centrifugal variation"; the doctrine of the good of diversification amply accounts for variation being centrifugal.
The wonderful mechanism of Mormodes ignea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3484 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1862
Summary
JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.
Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.
Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.
JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3651 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hooker might recover her health (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 19 [June 1862] , 28 June 1862 , and 2 July 1862 ). Hooker refers to the Swiss botanist, Oswald Heer . No angiosperms had ever been found in rocks older than the Cretaceous system (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter from Charles Lyell, [16 January 1857] ); …
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 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 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 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 |
To Daniel Oliver 24 July [1862]
Summary
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3664 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 March 1862
Summary
JDH has probably influenced Bates by pointing out applicability of CD’s views to his cases.
Is greatly puzzled by difference in effect of external conditions on individual animals and plants. Cannot conceive that climate could affect even such a single character as a hooked seed.
Does not think Huxley is right about "saltus".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 23–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3474 |
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 |
To Asa Gray 22 January [1862]
Summary
Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".
U. S. politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3404 |
To H. W. Bates 9 May [1862]
Summary
Referring to conversation with Lyell, CD is certain that there was a Miocene glacial period.
Compliments HWB on the mimetic display at the British Museum. Those at the Museum readily accepted HWB’s "doctrine".
Was shown genital organs of closely allied Chrysomelidae.
Albert Günther is candidate for position at Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 9 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3540 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 …
To W. E. Darwin 4 [July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3641 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] and 14 [October 1862] , and letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] ). CD later discussed this experiment in ‘Specific difference in Primula ’ , pp. 451–4. Leonard Darwin became ill with scarlet fever on 12 June 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Horace Darwin . Miss Pugh had been governess to the Darwin children from January 1857 …
To Daniel Oliver 12 [April 1862]
Summary
DO’s observations on polymorphism in Primula and Campanula. CD recognises three classes of dimorphism, as in Primula, Thymus, and Campanula and violets.
DO’s Campanula paper and Royal Institution lecture [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 431–3].
CD’s interest in Fumariaceae from A. Gray’s comments on "selfing".
Bees bite holes in flowers when same species grows in high density.
Organisation of CD’s notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 12 [Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 1 (EH 88205985) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3504 |
To H. W. Bates 15 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for paper and references on variations [missing].
Regrets HWB’s trouble about artists, etc., saying such trouble is a law of nature.
Asks whether HWB has heard of starving Indians who are forced to cook in different ways, and eat new things.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 15 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3861 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1857 (volume 15), describing his travels and collecting activities in the Amazonian region. Bates was in the final stages of preparing for publication an account of his travels as a naturalist in South America ( Bates 1863 ). In his preface (p. vi), Bates acknowledged the assistance of three artists in preparing the illustrations: Edward W. Robinson , Joseph Wolf , and Johann Baptist Zwecker . See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To C. C. Babington 20 January [1862]
Summary
Discusses Stellaria and other plants said to be dimorphic.
Asks for plants he wants for experiments.
Preparing a little book on Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Date: | 20 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3397 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, [9 December 1861] and 28 [December 1861] ). Pyrola and Polemonium are discussed in Lecoq 1854–8 , 7: 356–62 and 413–14, respectively, but Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch is not cited. Lecoq identified Pyrola as being dimorphic in a section that CD highlighted in his copy of the work (p. 357), but did not identify Polemonium as being dimorphic. CD had borrowed a copy of Koch 1843–4 from Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1857 ( …
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Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |