To J. D. Hooker [16 August 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [16 Aug 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4592 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 July 1865]
Summary
Was glad to read JDH’s article on glaciers of Yorkshire ["Moraines of the Tees Valley", Reader 6 (1865): 70].
Reader article [6 (1865): 61–2] about English and foreign men of science is unjust.
Lubbock is now lost to science.
B. Verlot’s pamphlet on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement (1865)] is very good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 July 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 273 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4874 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … D. Hooker, 26[–8] October 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1864] ; see …
- … vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 ). CD probably refers to a meeting in …
- … n. 7). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 . In March 1864 Charles Paget Hooker …
- … 1864 ). It was the prize-winning essay in a competition held by the Société Impériale et Centrale d’Horticulture. CD cited Verlot 1865 frequently in Variation , especially on colour variation in plants (see, for example, Variation 1: 386 and 2: 20, 70). The London publishing firms of Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green and Williams & Norgate offered commercial offprints of ‘Climbing plants’ from August 1865 ( Publishers’ Circular , 1 August 1865, p. 391; see also Freeman 1977 ). Wichura 1865 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … example, letters to J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1863] and [27 January 1864] ( Correspondence …
- … 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] ); however, in 1863 and 1864 CD was even …
- … 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] ). Hooker had consulted the …
- … J. D. Hooker, 26 December [1863] ; see also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 December [1864] ). …
- … J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 . CD refers to the death of Hugh Falconer on 31 January 1865 and the letter from Hooker of 3 February 1865 . Sic transit gloria mundi : ‘So passes away the glory of the world’ (H. P. Jones ed. 1900). On 7 February 1864, …
To J. D. Hooker 31 [May 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 [May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4516 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [February 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 [Feb 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4414 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1866]
Summary
A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?
A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.
Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.
On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.
Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 308, 308b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5300 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 15 February [1864]
Summary
John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4406 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 April 1864]
Summary
Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 226a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4444 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [April 1865]
Summary
Roguery at Kew.
Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?
Is rereading Origin for second French edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4809 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] . Hooker had promised to send Grisebach 1864 , a …
- … J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] . The reference is to the novel Can you forgive her? by Anthony Trollope ( Trollope 1864– …
- … J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 13). CD refers to three unsigned review articles in the April 1865 issue of the Natural History Review. Joseph Reay Greene reviewed the 1863–4 Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ( [Greene] 1865 ), George Bentham reviewed Planchon 1864a and 1864b ( [Bentham] 1865 ), and Thomas Thomson’s article ‘Species and subspecies’ was a review of Jordan 1864 ( [ …
From Richard Spruce to J. D. Hooker 29 July 1864
Summary
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
Author: | Richard Spruce |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4577 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]
Summary
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 257a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4742 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 October [1864] and n. 7, and R. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 6 January 1863 ), was published in two parts. The first volume was issued in 1864, …
- … J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 and n. 13. CD refers to the second volume of Hooker’s Handbook of the New Zealand flora ( Hooker 1864– …
- … J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 and n. 6. CD is paraphrasing Hooker’s remarks. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 January [1865] and n. 7. CD refers to ‘Science and the spirits’, the lead article in the 10 December 1864 …
To J. D. Hooker 6 April [1865]
Summary
Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5].
JDH should ask George Busk whether he knows a better doctor than William Jenner "for giving life to a worn out poor devil".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 262 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4805 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]
Summary
Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [Feb 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 261 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4772 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 13–15). In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD …
- … Hooker, 25 February [1862] and 7 March [1862] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 27 February 1862 ; see also Browne 1983 , pp. 117–29, 133–5. For Heer’s statement that Scandinavia was a source for alpine plants of the northern hemisphere, see Heer 1864 , …
To J. D. Hooker 19 January [1865]
Summary
"Climbing plants" sent off.
Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.
Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]
and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].
Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.
Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!
"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 258a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4748 |
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 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 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and n. 20. Some of …
- … 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 June [1857] ). CD’s annotated copy of Travers 1864 , in his …
- … J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] , n. 12. Most of CD’s copies of the journal for the years 1856 to 1864 …
- … J. D. Hooker, 26 [April 1858] and n. 4. Travers had noted that many introduced plants, including white clover, were spreading rapidly, and also that the importation of bees had resulted in good fruit production from introduced European trees and shrubs ( Travers 1864 , …
To J. D. Hooker 4 May [1865]
Summary
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 268a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4827 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1864 ). CD refers to Maxwell Tylden Masters and to Caspary 1865 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [1 May 1865] . CD had been seriously ill for parts of 1863 and 1864 ( …
- … Hooker to recommend him another doctor (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 April [1865] and n. 2). Jenner had been treating CD since March 1864; …
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