From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 November 1863
Summary
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4339 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Hooker, 10 [November 1863] . Hooker’s account ( J. D. Hooker 1864 ) was published in the …
- … 1994 ). Travers was quoted at length in J. D. Hooker 1864 , p. 124. Hooker was well …
- … animals to new environments (see J. D. Hooker 1864 , p. 125, and letter to Julius von …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker of 10 [November 1863] . See J. D. Hooker 1864 , pp. 126–7, for …
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4225 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … as ‘spiny shrubs or small trees’ ( J. D. Hooker 1864–7 , p. 43). In his letter to Haast …
- … the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (J. D. Hooker, 1864–7, p. 12). In late 1862, Canterbury …
- … to Hooker’s forthcoming Handbook of the New Zealand flora ( J. D. Hooker 1864–7 ), which …
- … pp. 295–8. In the preface to J. D. Hooker, 1864–7, p. 12, Hooker paid tribute to the …
- … a handbook of New Zealand flora ( J. D. Hooker 1864–7 ) was discussed in his letter to …
From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1863
Summary
JDH working on the New Zealand flora.
Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.
T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4275 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 January 1863
Summary
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 88–91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3902 |
From Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast 12 December [1863]
Summary
CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.
He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"
and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".
Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 12 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4356 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 January [1863]
Summary
Acquired characteristics.
Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.
Asa Gray on slavery.
Falconer’s partial conversion.
Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3913 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1863
Summary
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 163–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4306 |
From Julius von Haast 21 July [– 7? August] 1863
Summary
In a forthcoming paper JvH will show geological age of the world to be "incalculable" and will confirm CD’s theory that "the old system of chronological sequence of formations all over the world must be abandoned in a great degree".
Predicts the links between species, genera, and classes will be found.
CD elected an Honorary Member [of Philosophical Institute of Canterbury].
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July [– 7? Aug] 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 4, 6; Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (G304) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4249 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1863]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".
John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.
Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4207 |
From Alfred Newton 31 October 1863
Summary
Tells CD where to pick up the partridge’s foot with the ball of earth attached; sends a copy of his remarks on the same. [See Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 13 (1864): 99–101.]
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4326 |
To P. H. Gosse 5 June [1863]
Summary
PHG’s hypothesis [regarding the self-fertilising mechanism of Stanhopea] may prove quite true, but CD suggests that PHG should observe another spike to make sure. CD will observe his Stanhopea if it flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Date: | 5 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold at Christie‘s New York (dealers), 15 November 2011, lot 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4205 |
To Daniel Oliver 28 March [1863]
Summary
Nectar secretion in Edwardsia. Could the stamen protect stigma?
Sends monstrous Primula with three pistils.
Had never heard of Robert Caspary, but what DO thinks is the placenta could be a whorl of pistils without stigmas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 28 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 43 (EH 88206026) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4063 |
From Daniel Oliver 27 November 1863
Summary
Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,
and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4349 |
From George Maw 25 April 1863
Summary
Has obtained fossils from Gibraltar that he believes are human. Requests Lyell’s address so that he can send the bones.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4128 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 August [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4261 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4227 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864, and his paper entitled ‘Climbing plants’ was read before the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865 (see also the observational and experimental notes in DAR 157.1 and 157.2); his observations on E. lobata and C. discolor are given in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 74–7 and 83–4. G. Smith 1863 ; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
To Asa Gray 26 June [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for references about phyllotaxy
and information on marriage laws.
Has been looking for dimorphism in Phlox and Euonymus.
Has observed the irritability of tendrils of Echinocystis with great interest. Was also struck by the rotating movements of the leading shoots, which he proposes to investigate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 26 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4222 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4241 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, [21 July 1863] . CD’s notes on his observations and experiments on climbing plants are in DAR 157.1 and DAR 157.2. These include notes on several members of the Cucurbitaceae, namely: Echinocystis lobata , dated 16 June – 24 May 1864 ( …
- … 1864] (DAR 157.2: 69–77); Ampelopsis hederacea (Virginia creeper), dated 1 July – 16 August [1863] (DAR 157.2: 65–7); Cissus discolor , dated 30 June – 18 July [1863] (DAR 157.2: 55–6); Pisum sativum (common pea), dated 30 July – 23 August [1863] (DAR 157.2: 15–20); and Lathyrus grandiflorus (everlasting pea), dated 10–15 November [1863] (DAR 157.2: 22). These species are discussed in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 65–7, 73–9, 83–7, and 89–91. See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
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Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
Darwin, Emma | (3) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |