From J. D. Hooker [15 March 1863]
Summary
JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 117–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4040 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 420, Lyell referred to Hooker’s assertion in J. D. Hooker 1859 , p. viii, that ‘species …
- … and n. 17. Hooker’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniæ ( J. D. Hooker 1859 ) was …
- … published in June, 1859’. Hooker’s Flora Tasmaniæ ( J. D. Hooker 1860a ) was published …
- … J. D. Hooker, [24 March 1863] ). He was apparently misled by an erroneous statement on the first page of J. D. Hooker 1859 , …
- … Hooker, on the theory of “Creation by variation” as applied to the vegetable kingdom’, in which he discussed J. D. Hooker 1859 . Hooker was mistaken in his recollection (see n. 7, above, letter to J. D. …
To Charles Lyell 17 March [1863]
Summary
His better opinion [of work of Boucher de Perthes].
Explains his position on CL’s treatment of species.
Mentions positive response to his ideas on the part of a German professor [Ernst Haeckel], Alphonse de Candolle, and a botanical palaeontologist [Gaston de Saporta].
Notes negative reaction of entomologists.
Mentions Falconer’s objections [to Antiquity].
Mentions work of Hooker.
Comments on paper by Owen ["On the aye-aye", Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]
and CD’s review of Bates’s paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thinks Natural History Review is excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.291) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4047 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 March 1863]
Summary
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2027 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] and n. 3). Hooker ended his essay with a postscript, the last paragraph of which ( J. D. Hooker 1859 , …
- … Hooker, 17 March [1863] . See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 [March 1863] . C. Lyell 1863a , pp. 504–5. Hooker’s maternal grandparents were the banker and botanist Dawson Turner , and Mary Turner . In C. Lyell 1863a , p. 417, Charles Lyell had claimed that J. D. Hooker 1859 …
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1863
Summary
JDH delivers CD’s letter to C. V. Naudin.
Neither Naudin nor Decaisne appreciates Origin.
Discusses Naudin on physiological causes of species formation;
Decaisne on plant heredity.
JDH on Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3940 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1860] ). Origin was sold out at John Murray’s trade sale on 24 November 1859 ( …
- … Hooker published his Introduction to the Tasmanian Flora: in the first part of this admirable essay he admits the truth of the descent and modification of species; and supports this doctrine by many original and valuable observations. CD asked Hooker the date of publication of his essay ( J. D. Hooker 1859 ) in the letter to J. D. …
From George Bentham 21 May 1863
Summary
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4172 |
Matches: 2 hits
To Charles Victor Naudin 7 February 1863
Summary
Thanks for informative letter of 2 February. CD is glad to have CVN’s opinion on the crossing of varieties of melons,
has made use of his memoir on the Cucurbitaceae ["Cucurbitacées cultivées au Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle en 1862", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 18 (1863): 159–208]
and anticipates with great interest his work on hybridisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | Progressus rei botanicæ 4 (1913): 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3972 |
To Charles Lyell 6 March [1863]
Summary
Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".
Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.
Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.
Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.
Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4028 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … links. Hooker’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniæ ( J. D. Hooker 1859 ), in which he …
- … Hooker , who was one of the first publicly to endorse natural selection (see J. D. Hooker 1859 ), …
- … Hooker’s essay as having been published ‘a few months before the appearance of the “Origin of Species’”. In the second edition of Antiquity of man the publication date of Hooker’s essay was given as December 1859 ( C. Lyell 1863b , p. 417). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
From J. D. Hooker [1 March 1863]
Summary
John Lubbock’s lecture on man a success [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1863): 29–40].
JDH on the effect of the Civil War on Asa Gray.
JDH’s opinion of Lyell on glaciers is improving.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 111–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4019 |
To W. D. Fox 23 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks WDF for authentic details of number and colour of lambs [Variation 2: 30].
Complains of his eczema.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 23 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.292) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4057 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 October 1863
Summary
With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 167–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321 |
To George Bentham 19 June [1863]
Summary
GB’s address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] pleased him as much as Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] disappointed him on species question. GB has done a "real good turn to the right side".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 19 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 709–10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4217 |
To George Maw 28 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks GM for a curious lily.
Recommends some papers on coal.
Gives his opinion on the importance of forming theories if one is to be a good and original observer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 28 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4018 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 May 1863]
Summary
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 137–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4165 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Hooker refers to CD’s list of the supporters of his theory, those ‘who dare speak out’ (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [9 May 1863] ). John Edward Gray was the keeper of the zoological department at the British Museum . Bates had worked on his South American collections at the British Museum since returning to England in 1859 ( …
- … Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n. 3, and Appendix VIII. George and Ellen Busk (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VIII). Bates 1863 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [17 April 1863] and n. 15. Bates 1863 was a narrative of Henry Walter Bates’s travels in the Amazon between April 1848 and July 1859; …
From Ludolph Christian Treviranus 12 February 1863
Summary
Sends his paper ["Über Dichogamie nach C. C. Sprengel und Ch. Darwin", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 1–7, 9–16].
Author: | Ludolph Christian Treviranus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3980 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 March 1863]
Summary
CD regrets he used "creation" in Origin when he meant "appeared".
An Oken-like article in "Owenian style" in Athenæum.
Tropical plants continue to be troublesome.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4065 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1863]
Summary
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3898 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1863]
Summary
Likes JDH’s review of Alphonse de Candolle [Mémoires et souvenirs de A. P. de Candolle (1862)].
Falconer’s article on Lyell ["Primitive man. What led to the question?", Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] too severe.
CD has written a letter to the Athenæum "to say, under the cloak of attacking Heterogeny, a word in my own defence" [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Bates’s Travels [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)] are excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4103 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hooker, [29 March 1863] . See n. 9, above, and Appendix VII. See letter from George Bentham , [ c. 14 April 1863], and letter to George Bentham, 15 April [1863] . CD had long been interested in George Bentham’s reaction to Origin (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 December 1859] …
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] and n. 4. Frederick Smith’s paper on the geographical distribution of the aculeate Hymenoptera collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago ( F. Smith 1863 ) was read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 5 March 1863. Since his return from South America in 1859, …
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