To J. D. Hooker 9 January [1867]
Summary
Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5353 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1867]
Summary
The date-palm seed case is important for Pangenesis.
Reports experiments on pollination of Ipomoea.
"Insular floras": A. Murray’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle is poor.
John Scott’s work on acclimatisation of plants.
The anomaly of the Azores flora on the migration theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 13a–e |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5445 |
To Herbert Spencer 9 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks for copy of HS’s First principles [? 2d ed. (1867)].
Comments on HS’s Principles of biology [1864, 1867].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 485a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5717 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 May 1867
Summary
Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.
Will go to Paris again at end of month.
Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.
Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5539 |
To Charles Lyell 1 June [1867]
Summary
Comments on a discussion of humming-birds by the Duke of Argyll [in The reign of law (1867)].
Encloses article by Henry Parker on the Duke’s book [Saturday Rev. 23 (1867): 82–4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.328) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5558 |
To Charles Lyell 9 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.
Mentions proposed visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.329) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5566 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867
Summary
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5683 |
From Julius von Haast 12 May – 2 June 1867
Summary
JvH will help with expression queries. Considers CD’s investigation highly important and original. Sends list of men to whom he is sending copies of the questions.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May – 2 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5534 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [March 1867]
Summary
Returns Charles Naudin’s letter with its case in support of CD’s view of impregnation.
Twits JDH for trying to wriggle out of error made in his lecture and admires his "candour in letting the rat out of the bag". [See 5449 and 5451.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5457A |
From J. D. Hooker 12 February 1867
Summary
Relieved that CD approves his declining the Presidency of BAAS. The BAAS and the role of scientific men in it.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 143–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5399 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1867]
Summary
Woolner’s bust.
Smith’s health.
St Helena Umbelliferae.
Brambles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Nov [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5696 |
From Edward Blyth 19 February 1867
Summary
Encloses memorandum on Origin [1866]
discussing mimicry in mammals and birds,
abnormal habits shown by birds,
behaviour of cuckoos,
and analogies existing between mammals of the same geographical region.
Speculates on possible lines of development linking groups of mammals.
[CD’s notes on the verso of the letter are for his reply.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 209, 209/1 & 2, DAR 47: 190, 190a, DAR 80: B99–99a, DAR 205.11: 138, DAR 48: A75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5405 |
To Edward Blyth 23 February [1867]
Summary
Many of EB’s remarks about Origin [4th ed. (1866)] are new to CD.
Thinks of writing a short essay on man.
Struck by EB’s remarks about orang. They are similar to Carl Vogt’s remarks on origin of man from distinct ape families.
Thinks similarity of orang to Malay must be accidental.
Will send Variation when it is published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5413 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1864 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 824). In his letter of 19 February 1867 , Blyth sent comments on the fourth edition of Origin , and discussed resemblances between particular bat genera and primate groups. CD also refers to Variation , which was published in January 1868. CD stayed at Erasmus Alvey Darwin’s home in London from 13 to 21 February 1867 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To Friedrich Hildebrand 20 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for two copies of Hildebrand’s monograph on plant sexuality (Hildebrand 1867a).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5450F |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1867] and n. 6). Daniel Oliver had been a botany editor of the Natural History Review , a journal that ceased publication in 1865, and had been responsible for the bibliography of phanerogamic botany that appeared regularly in the journal. He often referred CD to German and French publications on botanical topics (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 June 1864 ). …
To Charles Kingsley 10 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 10 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5567 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [28 February 1866] ( Correspondence vol. 14). Thomson held that the crust of the earth had solidified only 100 million years ago, and had criticised CD’s estimate in the first edition of Origin of 300 million years for the denudation of the Weald (see W. Thomson 1862 , pp. 391–2). In 1864, …
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
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Haast, Julius von | (1) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
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Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
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Lyell, Charles | (2) |
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