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From J. D. Hooker   26 November 1862

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Returns Asa Gray letter. Gray has made a great blunder in his criticism of Oliver: he mistakes perpetuation of a variety for "propagation of variation". Confusion between "action of physical causes" and "effects of physical causes". Neither crossing nor natural selection has made so many divergent individuals, but simply variation. "If once you hold that natural selection can create a character your whole doctrine tumbles to the ground." CD’s failure to convey this, and the false doctrine that "like produces like" is at bottom of half the scientific infidelity to CD’s doctrine. There is something to the objection that CD has made a deus ex machina of natural selection since he neglects to dwell on the facts of infinite incessant variations.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 61–2, 77–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3831

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  • Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24 [November 1862] . CD, Hooker, and Charles Lyell had corresponded extensively on this point (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [20 December 1859] , …

From Charles Lyell   20 August 1862

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Jamieson has revisited Glen Roy and confirmed his theory of glacier lakes.

A. G. More considers CD the most profound of reasoners.

Author:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Aug 1862
Classmark:  K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 358; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3691

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  • … Leonard Lyell . Joseph Dalton Hooker ; J. D. Hooker 1859 , p. vii. Dychlandia: actually …

From J. D. Hooker   [23 March 1862]

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Lighthearted thoughts on "the development of an Aristocracy" after a visit to Walcot Hall, Shropshire.

On CD’s point about the effect of changed conditions on the reproductive organs, JDH does not see why this is not "itself a variation, not necessarily induced by domestication, but accompanying some variety artificially selected".

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23 Mar 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 27–9; American Philosophical Society Library (Hooker papers, B/H76.2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3480

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 1 July [1857] ( Correspondence vol.  6). CD and Hooker had corresponded extensively on this point in 1860 (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [20 December 1859] , …

To Charles Lyell   22 August [1862]

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Relates personal news about family members.

CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".

Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.

Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.

Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  22 Aug [1862]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3695

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  • … 567–8. CD refers to Hooker’s statement in J.  D.  Hooker 1859 , pp.  v–vi, that in the …
  • … and Origin 2d ed. , p.  149. In J.  D.  Hooker 1859 , p.  vii n. , Joseph Dalton Hooker …

To H. W. Bates   25 November [1862]

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[Apparently in reply to question in missing portion of 3825.] A written agreement is unnecessary, but a letter stating terms would prevent misundertanding. He will attempt to have a review of HWB’s paper published.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Walter Bates
Date:  25 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3827

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  • … 28 March [1859] , and letter to J.  D. Hooker, 30 March [1859] ). CD may refer to Lyell’s …

From C. V. Naudin   26 June 1862

Summary

Thanks for Orchids.

Plans to publish soon on hybrids.

Author:  Charles Victor Naudin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 June 1862
Classmark:  DAR 172.1: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3621

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  • … vol.  7, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 [December 1859] ); CD subsequently corresponded on …
  • … vol.  7, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 [December 1859] ); CD subsequently corresponded on …

From J. D. Hooker   [31 January – 8 February 1862]

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Wrote a "frightful screed" about aristocracy’s being a necessary consequence of natural selection, and then burnt it.

H. W. Bates is the only man "thinking out" natural selection to any purpose. "I think I have driven Bates back to Nat. Sel. as the only way of solving his difficulties."

HWB’s mimetic butterflies.

JDH wishes he had time to do the same thing with plants.

Owen and Huxley involved in a "contemptible" squabble in the Edinburgh newspapers.

Maximovitch reports Stellaria bulbifera is a Siberian form which never ripens its seeds.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31 Jan – 8 Feb 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 14; DAR 111: 93
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3430

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  • Hooker, 30 January [1862] , CD requested information concerning a case of dimorphism in the Caryophyllaceae that Hooker had mentioned; the genus Stellaria belongs to the Caryophyllaceae. CD thanked Hooker for his information on Stellaria in the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 February [1862] . Stellaria bulbifera is a synoym of Pseudostellaria europaea . Maximowicz 1859, …

From J. D. Hooker   19 [June 1862]

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Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.

Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [June 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 38–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3611

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). George Graeme Watson-Taylor was a British subject who owned the Mediterranean island of Monte Cristo. The island came under Sardinian control after the Italian War of 1859, …

To J. D. Hooker   9 May [1862]

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Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.

Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.

"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".

Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  9 May [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3541

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  • Hooker’s home had recently been burgled (see letter from J.  D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] ). In his letter of [5 May 1862] , Hooker mentioned that he hoped to invite William Erasmus Darwin to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the near future. See also letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [8 May 1862] . From January 1857 until January 1859, …

To John Lubbock   5 September [1862]

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Finds JL’s facts on the diving insect that remains four hours under water new and interesting [see "On two aquatic Hymenoptera", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1864): 135–42].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:  5 Sept [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 263
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3713

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  • 1859, 1867). See letter from Charles Lyell, 20 August 1862 , and letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [ …

From Asa Gray   2–3 July 1862

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Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.

Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.

Reports the recent events of the Civil War.

[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2–3 July 1862
Classmark:  DAR 165: 110a, 112–12a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3637

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  • … vol.  7, letter from J.  D. Hooker, [20 December 1859] ), and CD had been concerned at …

To J. D. Hooker   11 June [1862]

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Sorry to hear of Mrs Hooker’s health and domestic problems. Wishes natural selection had produced neuters who would not flirt or marry.

Will be eager to hear Cameroon results.

Wishes JDH would discuss the "mundane glacial period". Still believes it will be "the turning point of all recent geographical distribution".

Pollen placed for 65 hours on apparent (CD still thinks real) stigma of Leschenaultia has not protruded a vestige of a tube.

"Oliver the omniscient" has produced an article in Botanische Zeitung with accurate account of all CD saw in Viola.

Asa Gray’s "red-hot" praise of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  11 June [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 155
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3597

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862 . In his letter of 9 June 1862 , Hooker had written of Frances Harriet Hooker : ‘My wife is very thin & watery, lacks energy, blood & muscle’. Miss Pugh had been governess at Down House between 1857 and 1859 ( …

From J. D. Hooker   12 November 1862

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Samuel Haughton was the prejudiced reviewer of the Origin. JDH’s opinion of SH.

Has heard from a W. African collector that P. B. Du Chaillu’s accounts [Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa (1861)] are all false.

R. F. Burton has impudently stolen credit for Gustav Mann’s Cameroon expedition.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 75–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3802

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 3 November [1862] and n.  14. Hooker refers to Samuel Haughton , author of a critical review of Origin that was published in the Natural History Review ([Haughton] 1860b). Haughton had been professor of geology at the University of Dublin since 1851; he entered the university’s medical school in 1859, …

From Berthold Carl Seemann   24 April 1862

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Encloses a passage from his book, The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. "Herald" [1852–7].

Discusses possibility of publishing work on flora of Hawaiian Islands.

Author:  Berthold Carl Seemann
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Apr 1862
Classmark:  DAR 177: 130, DAR 50: E28
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3518

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  • … vol.  7, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26 [December  1859] . In 1860, Seemann had travelled to …

To Asa Gray   22 January [1862]

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Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".

U. S. politics.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  22 Jan [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3404

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  • 1859] and n.  10). In his letter of 31 December 1861 ( Correspondence vol.  9), Gray enclosed a photograph of Dana and informed CD of his improved condition. The references are to Francis Boott and Joseph Dalton Hooker , and to the letter from J.  D.   …

From Henry Holland   30 January [1862]

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Is preparing a volume of his articles [Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a postscript referring to CD’s Origin [pp. 100–1]. Sends proposed postscript for CD’s approval.

Author:  Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Jan [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 166.2: 240
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3423

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 23 [June 1863] ( Correspondence vol.  11). Holland’s paper, ‘Life and organisation’ ( [Holland] 1859 ), …

From H. G. Bronn   21 June 1862

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L. C. Treviranus inclined to translate Orchids, but "unfortunately" HGB has already done it. Book’s discussion of plant sexuality important for zoology as well as botany.

Origin is in press. Attaches a list of "quelques petites difficultées" encountered in his translation.

Author:  Heinrich Georg Bronn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 June 1862
Classmark:  DAR 70: 2, DAR 160.3: 318
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3619

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  • … John Murray. 1859. Treviranus, Ludolph Christian. 1861. [Review of J. D. Hooker’s Flora …
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