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 |
To Asa Gray 28 May [1864]
Summary
Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids
– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.
Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.
How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?
He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 28 May [1864] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4511 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 April [1864] and n. 6. ‘ …
- … III. See also letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 7, and 22 [May 1864] and …
- … 56–9). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and n. 13. CD discussed the …
- … and n. 22, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n. 22. CD discussed Mohl’s …
- … Oliver] 1864a). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and nn. 9–10, and letter …
- … board, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 17. CD also refers to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 27 [November 1863] , and this volume, letter from Asa Gray, 16 February 1864 …
To Hugh Falconer 4 December [1864]
Summary
Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.
Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4698 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1863]
Summary
Encourages CD to continue observations on tendrils.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 152–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4225 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 February 1864]
Summary
Compares Clematis and Tropaeolum with respect to touch response. Tropaeolum shows a momentary response and quick recovery. Clematis takes hours to respond, and shows no recovery.
CD can show the gradations between leaves and tendrils, but how a branch passes into a tendril utterly puzzles him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 219 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4403 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [8 February 1864] …
- … pp. 111–14. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] and nn. 19–23. CD later …
- … letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 ; in 1864, 8 February fell on a …
- … plants’ , p. 32, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n. 16). CD’s notes for …
- … pp. 27 and 33–4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n. 17, and letter to G. …
- … see also letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] and n. 22). CD’s experimental notes …
- … 34, 112. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 and n. 4. CD describes dried …
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 …
To J. D. Hooker [10 and 12 January 1864]
Summary
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 and 12 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4389 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [10 and 12 January 1864] …
- … and John Hardcastle (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 , and Journal of the …
- … known, but see the letters from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 and nn. 10 and 11, and [ …
- … 1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] . Alfred Russel Wallace …
- … and elsewhere’ ( J. D. Hooker 1864a ), published in the January 1864 issue of the …
- … January 1864 issue of the Natural History Review contains annotations on J. D. Hooker …
- … J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 and n. 4. CD wrote the first section of the letter in pencil; Emma Darwin wrote and signed the second section of the letter. For 11 January 1864, …
To Daniel Oliver 13 July [1864]
Summary
If CD understood Nepenthes, he would understand every class of climbers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 13 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 50 (EH 88206033) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4564 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 21 July 1864 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 and n. 22. In ‘Climbing …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 June 1864 ). In ‘ …
- … J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] , and letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 November 1863 , and CD’s note in DAR 157.2: 96). Mohl 1827 . Hugo von Mohl’s account of homologies is discussed in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 48–9. An annotated copy of Mohl 1827 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 590–4). See letter to Daniel Oliver, 15 June [1864] …
From Henry Holland 4 November [1864]
Summary
Congratulations on the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4659 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 June 1864
Summary
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4534 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1864]
Summary
Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4474 |
From Fritz Müller [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865]
Summary
FM’s comments on Climbing Plants.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 and 31 Aug 1865 and 10 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | Notes on some of the climbing-plants near Desterro, in South Brazil. By Herr Fritz Müller, in a letter to C. Darwin. [Read 7 December 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1866): 344–9. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Hooker (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 and n. …
- … 10, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] ). In Climbing plants 2d ed. , p. 37 …
- … 1864] , and letters to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] , [8 February 1864] , and 3 …
- … vol. 12, letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and n. 13, and 10 December [1864] …
From J. D. Hooker [4 April 1864]
Summary
JDH has written to J. H. Balfour for a character reference for John Scott.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Apr 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4448 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (184) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (92) |
| Scott, John | (13) |
| Darwin, Emma | (12) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (12) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (201) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (85) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (12) |
| Gray, Asa | (11) |
| Lyell, Charles | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (385) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (177) |
| Scott, John | (22) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (18) |
| Darwin, Emma | (13) |
