From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1865
Summary
Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.
CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 8–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765 |
To Daniel Oliver 17 February [1864]
Summary
Sends Hermann Crüger’s paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for publication.
"Boasts" of confirmation that sexes are separate in Catasetum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 17 Feb [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 58 (EH 88206041) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4410 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1868
Summary
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 233–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6349 |
To Charles Lyell 26 April [1858]
Summary
Comments on letter from Georg Hartung to CL dealing with erratic boulders.
Discusses migration of plants and animals.
A letter from Thomas Thomson on heat endured by temperate plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.151) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2262 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hooker, 10 April [1858] , in which similar topics are discussed. Thomas Thomson was superintendent of the Calcutta botanic garden, 1854–61. His letter to CD has not been found. CD had directed the same query to other botanists late in 1857 (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to F. J. H. von Mueller, 8 December [1857], and letter from Charles Moore, 11 …
To T. H. Huxley 5 December [1873]
Summary
Sorry to hear of Dohrn’s troubles. Has written to prospective donors saying that nothing can be done because of attitude of Dohrn’s father.
New [2d] edition of Descent is an awful job.
Diet no longer doing much for his health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1873] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 305) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9173 |
From Emma Darwin to J. B. Innes 12 October [1874]
Summary
Parish and family news.
Francis Darwin’s marriage; Francis serves as CD’s assistant.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9674 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … F. H. Hooker, 13 September [1865] and n. 6. John and Ellen Frances Lubbock were in a train derailment on 9 September 1865 on their way to Birmingham for the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Lubbock was uninjured but Ellen, who was heavily pregnant at the time, suffered deep cuts to her arm and hand. ( Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 77–9; The Times , 11 …
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1864
Summary
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4692 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hooker 1864–7 , 1: 12**). Julius von Haast . Hooker had given Hector a letter of introduction to Haast in 1862 (see H. F. von Haast 1948 , p. 250). Haast’s contributions to the botany of New Zealand are acknowledged in J. D. Hooker 1864–7 , 1: 12**. Haast had corresponded with CD in 1862 and 1863 (see Correspondence vols. 10 and 11), …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
