To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1864]
Summary
Requests climbing plants.
Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4517 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1864] …
- … s answers, see letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] and nn. 10–11. See also, …
- … in the letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] . No letter from Hooker …
- … from Hooker on this occasion (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 June 1864 ); however, …
- … from Hooker in February (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] ). CD had …
- … peduncles (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] and nn. 19–22, and letter to …
From J. D. Hooker [20 February 1864]
Summary
Sends a Corydalis.
Hermann Crüger’s paper [see 4394] splendid, but he has made a mess of propagating Cinchona in Trinidad.
JDH’s opinion of Germans.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Feb 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 186–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4413 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [20 February 1864] …
- … and the letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] , in which CD acknowledges his …
- … did refer in the letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] to ‘scraps’ he had sent …
- … genus in the family Fumariaceae (see memorandum to J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1864? ] …
- … and letter from J. D. Hooker, [4–]6 August 1864 ). CD’s notes on the species are in DAR …
- … Hooker 1854 , 1: 163–4, and J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855, pp. 273–4). Hooker refers to Hermann Crüger’s paper ( Crüger 1864 ), …
To John Hutton Balfour 15 September [1864]
Summary
Inquires which nurserymen near Edinburgh cultivate coloured primroses and cowslips. Wants to repeat John Scott’s remarkable experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1864] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4613 |
From Daniel Oliver [28 January – 8 February 1864]
Summary
Botanists are obliged to regard tendrils as either leaf- or stem-formations. Vitis, Passiflora, and Clematis are discussed. [See 4398.]
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Jan – 8 Feb 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4398F |
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1864]
Summary
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4461 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1864] …
- … Office, RG9/462: 70, 74)). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] , n. 19. …
- … s note to Hooker (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). In CD’s ‘Journal’, he …
- … 1864 . See also letters to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] and nn. 3–5, and 7 April [1864] …
- … 17 March 1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 March 1864 and n. 23). Contemporary …
- … magnesia, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 , n. 9. See also letter from …
- … to [Oliver] 1864a (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n. 22). In [Oliver] …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [May 1864]
Summary
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 [May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 22 [May 1864] …
- … to the Linnean Society by 10 June 1864 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] ). …
- … 36, 49–50. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] and nn. 4 and 6; Olby …
- … May 1864 , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1864 . The last five chapters of Charles …
- … Bynum 1984 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1864 and n. 3, and letter to A. …
- … May 1864] . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 and n. 12. CD included a drawing …
- … pp. 112–14. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] . ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
- … 1864] and n. 5. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 and nn. 10 and 11. CD is …
From W. H. Harvey 8 November [1864]
Summary
The plants from the Cape did not show climbing habit in native country; WHH believes it a consequence of their being grown under disadvantages of climate.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4665 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of South Africa since July (see memorandum to J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1864? ] and n. …
- … 14, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] ). Harvey was professor of botany …
- … for Harvey in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 October [1864] . The memorandum has not been …
- … and 11 November 1864 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [28 September 1864] and n. 7. …
To J. D. Hooker [9 April 1866]
Summary
Sad about Oliver’s loss.
JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].
Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 284 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5051 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864 …
- … II)). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 July [1864] and n. 9. For an indication of …
- … Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [15 May 1864] and n. 2. …
- … Hooker’s assessment of Scott’s temperament, see letters from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 …
- … Victor Naudin . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] . For Bentham’s interest in …
- … volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 and n. 3. CD began observations on …
- … Staffordshire (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n. 15). The only …
- … to in the letter from J. D. Hooker to James Hector, 19 May 1864 , in the Museum of New …
- … J. D. Hooker, 22 December 1858 . CD discovered a fossil tree allied to Araucaria on Chiloe Island, Chile, during his Beagle voyage (see Journal and remarks , p. 406, and South America , pp. 121, 202). George Bentham was president of the Linnean Society ; he delivered the anniversary address on 24 May 1864 ( …
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1864]
Summary
Returned from Ireland, JDH wishes to visit Down.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 July 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4572 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 April 1864]
Summary
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4445 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [2 April 1864] …
- … curator at the end of April 1864 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 March 1864 and n. …
- … as curator (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 March 1864 and n. 4). William Jackson …
- … Isle of Wight (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 March 1864 ). Hooker observed the lower …
- … glacier advance (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and nn. 14 and 15); CD …
- … of researches. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 15. See n. 11, …
- … 4, and letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n. 23). John Smith ( …
From John Scott 29 July [1864]
Summary
Asks for additional financial aid for trip to India.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4578 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … employment (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 19 May 1864 , letter to John Scott, 21 May [ …
- … to Thomas Anderson and Arthur Grote (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] ). …
- … was Henry Taylor (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1864] and n. 2). CD had given …
- … and n. 5). In his letter to J. D. Hooker of 22 [May 1864] , CD wrote that he would pay …
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864 …
- … J. D. Hooker 1864–7 . In the preface to J. D. Hooker 1864–7 , dated 30 June 1864, …
- … name was Hardcastle (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] and n. 5). …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] and n. 5. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1863] ). Hooker also refers to Erasmus Alvey Darwin and to the Athenaeum Club in London. William Jackson Hooker . In his letter of 2 January 1864 , …
- … Hooker, [24 March 1863] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 March 1863] ). The French circus, Franconi’s Cirque Impérial , performed at the Royal Alhambra music hall, Leicester Square, from 7 December 1863 to 5 March 1864 ( …
From J. D. Hooker 16 March 1864
Summary
List of four plants sent.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4428 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1864]
Summary
CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.
Leersia.
Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 231 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4471 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1864] …
- … experiments (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] ). Hooker discouraged this idea …
- … 9 April 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 [April 1864] . See also Correspondence …
- … and to William Bennett (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 and nn. 14– …
- … 16). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 and n. 11. CD had corresponded with …
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Summary
On FitzRoy’s suicide.
The Lyell–Ramsay disagreement [on formation of lakes?].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … D. Hooker, [23 August 1864] , and letters from J. D. Hooker, 5 September 1864 and 16 …
- … also ibid. , letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 . Hooker refers to Maxwell Tylden …
- … and n. 2, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 October [1864] , and this volume, letter to …
- … vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 , and letter from J. B. Jukes, 10 …
- … J. D. Hooker, [1 May 1865] . Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell . Hooker refers to Ramsay 1865 , Andrew Crombie Ramsay’s response to Lyell’s discussion of the formation of lake-filled rock basins in the sixth edition of Elements of geology ( C. Lyell 1865 ). Ramsay had proposed a theory of the glacial origin of rock basins in a paper read before the Geological Society of London on 5 March 1862 ( Ramsay 1862 ); he elaborated the theory in Ramsay 1864 . …
To John Scott 6 February [1864]
Summary
JS’s Primula paper was read at the Linnean Society and praised warmly by G. Bentham. Hooker was not present.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B33–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4402 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 June 1864
Summary
JDH going to visit W. H. Harvey in Ireland.
New curator at Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4543 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1864]
Summary
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 242a, 242c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4576 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1864]
Summary
Forwards two character references for John Scott, for position JDH is arranging in India.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 234 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4515 |
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| Oliver, Daniel | (6) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (201) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (78) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (12) |
| Gray, Asa | (11) |
| Lyell, Charles | (10) |
