From J. D. Hooker [14 December 1862]
Summary
On Asa Gray’s letter; has written why he avoids alluding to the war.
Has read Max Müller [see 3752] – last part unphilosophical.
On CD’s pigeon example, long-beaked and short-beaked pigeons must be either sterile or not inter se. There is "no such thing as Equality – hence no such thing as chance and Nat. Sel. is the sword of Damocles hanging over your head if you make a slip in your premisses."
Has read note on Lythrum sent several weeks ago. Its consequences are of most prolific order to CD’s doctrine.
Kew has no wild gooseberries.
JDH praises the Saturday Review reply [14 (1862): 589] to the Duke of Argyll’s bitter review of Orchids ["The supernatural", Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3846 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] , and the letter from J. D. …
- … 1862 and nn. 8 and 9. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] . See letters …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [after 26] November [1862] and 12 [December 1862] . See letter to J. …
- … letter to Hooker of 18 [November 1862] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] …
- … J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] . Hooker and Gray held radically different views on the American Civil War, and had tacitly agreed not to discuss the matter in their letters ( …
- … Hooker, 24 [November 1862] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] . The references are to Cohn 1860 and Dutrochet 1837 . In his letter …
From Mary Boott 18 January 1864
Author: | Mary Hardcastle; Mary Boott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4391 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 [February 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 [Feb 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2210 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [October 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Aldrovanda reference and Cassia.
Has wasted labour on Melastomataceae without getting a glimpse of the meaning of the parts.
Wants seeds, from their native land, of Heterocentron or Monochaetum.
Is beginning to change his view about rarity of natural hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3762 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Hooker, [18 September 1862] . See letter from J. D. Hooker [12 October 1862] , and letter …
- … Letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] . The first part of the first volume of …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n. 4, and letter to Daniel Oliver, …
- … Insectivorous plants , p. 321. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n. …
- … notes in DAR 48: 49 v. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n. 18. In …
- … Hooker’s letter has not been found, but see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 …
To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1873]
Summary
Had thrown Geographical Society’s Proceedings in waste-basket, but as Strachey shows such admirable powers of discrimination he will fish it out and read the whole article.
Comments on 3d ed. of Sachs’s work [Lehrbuch der Botanik (1873)]. Wishes he were more controversial.
Has become wonderfully interested in Drosera and Dionaea.
9000 copies of Expression have been printed and most are sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 251–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8733 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 . See letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 and n. 9. CD refers to William Ewart Gladstone . See letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 and n. 7. CD refers to Richard Strachey . CD had misread the part of Hooker’s letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 12 January 1873 and n. 2. CD’s annotated copy of the third edition of Sachs’s Lehrbuch der Botanik ( Sachs 1873 ) is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 727–30). CD refers to Bert 1867–72 . See Correspondence vol. 20, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1865]
Summary
Strelitzia has arrived
but no books or bottles from G. H. K. Thwaites.
Hopes his own judgment about Origin is as good as Hooker’s about his own papers.
Strelitzia’s neat mechanism for exposing pollen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 266 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4813 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 12 April [1865] . For CD’s interest in the pollination of Strelitzia , see the letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 6 April [1865] . Hooker mentioned the illness of William Jackson Hooker in his letter to CD of 12 April [1865] . See letter …
- … Hooker had undertaken to forward from George Henry Kendrick Thwaites ; Hooker had also mentioned that he would send Grisebach 1864 and an issue of Botanische Zeitung (see letters from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and 12 …
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker 17 March [1864]
Summary
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4429 |
Matches: 2 hits
To J. D. Hooker 18 [November 1862]
Summary
A German scholar says JDH first applied natural selection to replacement of races of men, the ruder races of Polynesians yielding to civilised Europeans. CD cannot remember reading this.
Warns JDH to take care Welwitschia does not turn into a case of barnacles and consume years instead of months.
In what months do flowers appear in Acropera loddigesia and A. luteola? CD is alarmed by John Scott’s observations on them, which differ from his own. "I am very uneasy."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3812 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Bonafous 1836 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1862 and n. 5. Samuel …
- … Hooker, 3 November [1862] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November 1862 . CD refers to Richard Francis Burton and Gustav Mann . See letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 and n. 12. CD wished to compare a seed-capsule of Acropera Loddigesii (a synonym of Gongora galeata ), which John Scott had promised to send him, with a capsule from another species of the Vandeae, the orchid tribe to which Vanda belongs (see letter …
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4751 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1864] ). He repeatedly …
- … Hooker, 10 June 1863 , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker had written to Thomas Anderson , superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, to enquire about employment for Scott (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. …
- … Hooker several times to read the paper (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker , decided to seek employment in India (see Correspondence vol. 12). He departed for Calcutta on 28 August 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] and n. 6). He eventually sent Hooker a summary of the paper’s main points, suggesting that he encourage Daniel Oliver to review it (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 5 April [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). Balfour had supplied Hooker with a character reference for Scott that praised his botanical abilities and diligence, while noting his sullen temper and neglect of more practical duties (see Correspondence vol. 12, enclosure to letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). See also letter from John Scott, 28 May [1864] and the enclosed reference from Balfour. On learning that Scott had resigned his position at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, CD had offered him financial support (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
- … 12, letter from John Scott, 28 May 1864 ). CD and Hooker had suspected that Balfour was prejudiced against Scott because of Scott’s support for CD’s theory of transmutation (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858]
Summary
At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: E1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2367 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 or 20 January 1873]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 20] Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 138–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8734 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1862
Summary
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Hooker, 8 June 1860 , letters to J. D. Hooker, 29 [ May 1860] , 5 June [1860] , and 12 [June 1860] , letters …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1862] and [10–]12 November [1862] , and letters from J. D. …
- … Hooker 1863a ), which involved prolonged microscopical examination (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 and [12 …
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1864]
Summary
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 255a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4697 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 12 January [1858] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 January 1858 ). …
- … Hooker, 26 November [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 and n. 12. CD refers to James Hector . See enclosures to letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 and n. 12. CD had a long-standing interest in the pollination of Leguminosae (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 7, letter …
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1867]
Summary
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5361 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … CD refers to Variation (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1867] ). Emma Darwin …
- … Hooker’s article on insular floras ( J. D. Hooker 1866a ) appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 12 January 1867, p. 27. See letter …
- … Letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1867] . CD refers to Frances Harriet Hooker and …
- … 358–60. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1867] . In his letter to Hooker of 7 …
From J. D. Hooker [28 April 1845]
Summary
First part of "Galapagos flora" ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] finished but not printed.
Details of distribution of Galapagos flora. Peculiarity of island floras.
Leaves for Edinburgh on Wednesday.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Apr 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-862 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … also Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 September 1864] . Thwaites …
- … 9 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1864] ). Hooker …
- … See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1864] . Hooker had …
- … Hooker at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in September 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker on several occasions to observe the climbing habit of the pitcher plant Nepenthes (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. …
- … 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] , letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … Hooker’s comment in ‘Climbing plants’ , p. 78. See Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, [ c. 23 September 1864]). Hooker also supported the proposed translation; however, it was not undertaken (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. …
- … Hooker had been working on the taxonomy of the Melastomaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical plants, for Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, 1: 725; the Melastomaceae correspond approximately to the modern family Melastomataceae). See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. …
- … 12, letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 21 June 1864 , and letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 25 June [1864] ). Hildebrand sent CD a copy of his paper ‘Dimorphismus von Pulmonaria officinalis’ in February 1865 ( Hildebrand 1865 , pp. 13–15; see letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … Hooker 1867 and Hooker 1881 ). The Reader , a weekly review of literature, science, and art, was started in January 1863 (see Sullivan ed. 1984 and North 1997 , pp. 4066–8). CD was enthusiastic about the journal (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] . For Hooker’s description of the stamens of Cucurbitaceae, see Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, 1: 816. In his letter to Hooker of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), …
- … Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 , n. 22; see also letter to Daniel Oliver, [22 July 1864] ). Hooker evidently passed CD’s query to Thwaites; however, CD’s description of two Nepenthes species in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 46–7, is based largely on specimens that he obtained from the nursery firm of James Veitch (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to J. D. …
- … 12, Appendix II) that he had finished the paper on climbing plants on 15 September; however, he continued his observations and made small changes to the manuscript until it was sent to the Linnean Society of London on 18 January (see letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 3 December [1858]
Summary
Examining JDH’s list. CD struck by how many plants are common to Europe, S. America, and Australia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 256 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2377 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 December 1862]
Summary
"Throttled off" Welwitschia paper at Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 1–48].
Has read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).
Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3856 |
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