To J. D. Hooker 15 October [1859]
Summary
Book finished some two weeks.
Feeling much better at Ilkley.
Lyell thinks favourably of book but "staggered" at lengths to which CD goes.
Which continental botanists should receive presentation copies?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Oct [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2504 |
To John Murray 31 March [1859]
Summary
CD has heard from Lyell that JM is inclined to publish his work on the origin of species. Will send some chapters as soon as copyist has finished. Sends list of 12 chapters. It will be a popular abstract of more than 20 years’ work. It ought to be popular with scientific and semi-scientific readers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 31 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.12–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2441 |
To W. D. Fox [6 October 1859]
Summary
First impressions of the water-cure establishment are not favourable – "I always hate everything new".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6 Oct 1859] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2502 |
Darwin, Charles and Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1858. On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection … Communicated by Sir Charles Lyell … and J. D. Hooker. [Read 1 July 1858.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 3 (1859): 45–62. [Shorter publications, pp. 282–96.]
To Charles Lyell 22 [December 1859]
Summary
Comments on Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae].
Cites C. V. Naudin’s article ["Considérations philosophiques sur l’espèce et la variété", Rev. Hortic. 4th ser. 1 (1852): 102–9].
Mentions letter from William Jardine criticising discussion of the Galapagos in the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.186) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2593 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 March 1862]
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 February [1860]
Summary
Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture on Origin [10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] an "entire failure" as an exposition of CD’s doctrine.
R. I. Murchison very civil.
CD counts Lyell among the converted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2696 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1860] ) and his conditions for publication meant that Hooker had to pay for any presentation copies (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, [8–11 April 1859] , …
- … J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1860] . CD refers to the copies of Hooker’s introductory essay of the Flora Tasmaniæ ( Hooker 1859 ), …
To W. D. Fox [16 November 1859]
Summary
News of his health and the water-cure establishment.
[Origin] "my weariful book on Species" has been sent to WDF, who will not agree with it. Hooker is a convert, and Lyell is "staggered".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [16 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 124) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2533 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Hooker was preparing an introductory essay ( Hooker 1859 ) for his flora of Tasmania (see letters from J. D. Hooker, …
- … Hooker 1859 ,pp. xvii–xix and cii–civ). Hooker postulated the previous existence of meridional continents that would have enabled plants to cross the equator from the far north to Australia. CD marked and annotated these pages in his copy of Hooker 1859 (Darwin Library–CUL). See letter from J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 18 [April 1860]
Summary
What a base dog Owen is for praising his own work in reviewing Origin [anonymously].
J. H. Balfour is narrow-minded.
CD cannot understand pollination of Goodenia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Apr 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2763 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1859] and n. 3. The January …
- … Hooker the draft of a letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle to see whether he thought he should send it to the journal for publication. See letters to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [13 April 1860], and to J. D. Hooker, 13 [April 1860]. The letter from Richard Owen to Hooker is also mentioned in CD’s letter to Asa Gray, 25 April [1860] . Owen reviewed Origin , Hooker 1859 , …
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 |
From S. V. Wood Jr to Charles Lyell 19 September 1873
Summary
Thanks for proofs of the Supplement to Crag Mollusca. Sends crab apples.
Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6327-9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059G |
From Asa Gray [10 January 1860]
Summary
Agassiz denounces Origin as "atheistical";
AG is currently reviewing it [in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 29 (1860): 153–84].
Jeffries Wyman praises it, though not a convert.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 26a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2631 |
From H. C. Watson 3 January 1858
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 [June 1860]
Summary
Progress of [Thomas?] Thomson and G. H. K. Thwaites on accepting mutability.
Bee orchid pollination.
JDH has written to CD on homologies of stigma in Goodeniaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2830 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 December [1859]
Summary
Will bring materials for Royal Institution lecture [when he comes to London].
Plans to bring out separate detailed volumes [on his theory], starting with domestic variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 16 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2585 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 May 1866
Summary
JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5104 |
To A. R. Wallace 18 May 1860
Summary
Pleasure in ARW’s approbation of the Origin. Other supporters among scientists. ARW’s generosity.
Attacks by Owen, Sedgwick, and others.
Anticipation of natural selection by Matthew in 1830.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 18 May 1860 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 21–23v) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2807 |
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 |
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- … 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, [ …
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