To Richard Kippist 10 March [1858]
Summary
In great want of two books, which he had borrowed previously: Boreau Flora du Centre de la France and A. E. Fürnrohr, Naturhistorische Topographie von Regensburg, Bd 2 Flora Ratisbonensis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 10 Mar [1858] |
Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (15 November 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2238 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 September [1860]
Summary
CD has a low opinion of British entomologists.
Lyell’s ingenious difficulties with natural selection show he is in earnest.
Asks JDH to observe beetles and variation of stripes in mules on his Syrian tour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2905 |
To J. D. Hooker 11–12 November [1856]
Summary
CD relieved by JDH’s positive response to his MS.
CD continues observations on means of transport.
JDH’s Raoul Island paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 22 (1857): 133–41], showing continuity of vegetation with New Zealand, best evidence yet of continental extension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11–12 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1986 |
From Asa Gray 7 July 1857
Summary
Believes, with CD, that extinction may be an important factor in explaining plant distributions, but sees no reason why the several species of a genus must ever have had a common or continuous area. "Convince me of that, or show me any good grounds for it … and I think you would carry me a good way with you". It is just such people as AG that CD has to satisfy and convince.
Feels that the crossing of individuals is important in repressing variation and perhaps in perpetuating the species, but instances some plants in which it cannot, apparently, take place.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 381; DAR 165: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2120 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] , and n. 13). Emma Darwin recorded …
- … J. D. Hooker, 9 November 1856 . The Philosophical Club of the Royal Society, of which both CD and Hooker were members, met monthly. A meeting was held on 21 January 1858 ( Bonney 1919 , p. 137). Leonard Darwin , who had just turned 8, had experienced a breakdown in his health in 1857 ( …
- … 1857, during which time Lyell had geologised extensively. After his return, he reported in January 1858: ‘My tour was unusually profitable, first in the glaciers and then the volcanos. ’ (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 279). See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
To P. L. Sclater 4 February [1860]
Summary
Thanks PLS for list of Galapagos birds.
Mentions note he will add to Journal [of researches (1860)]
and correction he will make in Origin [3d ed. (1861)].
Asks PLS about variability in "abnormal parts of birds".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.195) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2684 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace to J. D. Hooker 6 October 1858
Summary
Thanks JDH and Lyell for the actions they have taken with respect to ARW’s and CD’s papers. Considers himself fortunate to have been given any merit for his work. Is pleased that his correspondence has led to the earlier publication of CD’s work. It would have caused him "much pain & regret" if CD had made ARW’s paper public unaccompanied by his own views.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct 1858 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2337 |
To Hugh Falconer [1845?–7 or 1857–64]
Summary
Arranges a time for visiting HF.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 1845-7 or 1857-64 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2305 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, [10 June 1847] ); Falconer left for Calcutta in 1848 and returned to settle in London early in 1857. …
- … 1857] ; Correspondence vol. 7, letter from Hugh Falconer, 25 October and 12 November [1859] ). They met again in London in August 1860 and May 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 28 August [1860] ; Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
From J. D. Hooker [before 6 May 1858]
Summary
Reports that N. J. Andersson finds every European willow bar one is also American.
Has heard from David Livingstone and reports on his progress.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 May 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2277 |
To Daniel Oliver 7 December [1861]
Summary
Trusts DO’s opinion on Acropera ovules.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 7 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 3 (EH 88205987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3340 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [April 1858]
Summary
Confidential revelation concerning W. F. Daniell.
Georg Hartung confirms CD’s supposition from flora of Azores that icebergs had been stranded there.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Apr 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2263 |
From J. D. Hooker [23] December 1865
Summary
No one believes in Karsten.
Surprised by CD’s observations that illegitimate crosses within a species produce hybrid-like offspring.
JDH’s scepticism of Scott’s observations.
On proposing James Hector vs Julius von Haast for Royal Society; on learned society honours.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23] Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 47–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4954 |
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 [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 T. H. Huxley 27 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks for Catalogue.
Has had a bad month. Somewhat improved as a result of John Chapman’s ice-bag cures.
Asks THH to read MS on his hypothesis Pangenesis. THH only man whose judgment on it would be final with him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 May [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 214) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4837 |
To William Sharpey 9 April [1857]
Summary
Recommendations of books of general interest [for the Royal Society library]. These include [Louis] Agassiz’s works, [William] McGillivray’s [History of] British birds, and David Low’s [On the domesticated animals of the British Islands].
Comments on current candidates for the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sharpey |
Date: | 9 Apr [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 128 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2073F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] and n. 2). See also …
- … 1857 ( Record of the Royal Society of London , p. 476). Sorby pioneered the use of the polarising microscope in geology and established the cause of slaty cleavage in sedimentary rock ( DSB ). For CD’s favourable assessment of Sorby 1856 , see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
From Thomas Glover 26 October 1857
Author: | Thomas Glover |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Oct 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2160 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 September [1861]
Summary
CD’s orchid paper is to become orchid book [Orchids].
Primula paper is done [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3263 |
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