To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [June 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1700 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1855] …
- … Hooker, 27 May [1855] and 5 June [1855] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 June [1855] . In his letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , …
- … see n. 4, below) and on letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See letters to J. …
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1855]
Summary
Detailed response to JDH’s critique of sea transport and continental connection theories. JDH’s claim that low plants are widely distributed fits both theories.
Species theory does not touch origin of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1696 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1855] …
- … Probably Mimosa sensitiva . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See …
- … s annotations on letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . Letter from Asa Gray, 22 May …
- … 8 June [1855] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1855] , n. 3. The map showing the …
From J. D. Hooker [before 17 March 1855]
Summary
JDH criticises C. J. F. Bunbury’s paper on Madeira [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857): 1–35].
Absence of Ophrys on Madeira suggests to JDH a sequence in creation of groups.
Why are flightless insects common in desert?
Australian endemism.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17 Mar 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 210–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1644 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [before 17 March 1855] …
- … Hooker discussed the Leguminosae in the introductory essay of his Flora Tasmaniæ ( J. D. Hooker 1855– …
- … F. Bunbury 1857). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] . CD made the following note …
- … the Linnean Society . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] , nn. 4 and 5. A. K. …
- … ed. 1856. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] . George Bentham . See letter to …
- … p. 159). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 7 March 1855] . CD wished to borrow books …
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1855]
Summary
JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.
On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1680 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1855] …
- … J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 17 March 1855] and …
- … Hooker described it as apterous ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 17 March 1855] ). …
- … and to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1855]. John Lindley was editor of the Gardeners’ …
- … J. D. Hooker, [5 or 12 November 1845] ). An anonymous article published in the Westminster Review n.s. 4 (1853): 417– 50, praising the new school of biblical criticism emerging in Germany. The author was James Anthony Froude ( Wellesley Index 3: 620). Froude complained that English scholars shrank from investigating the Bible as a secular text. See letters to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 11 April [1855], …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [August 1855]
Summary
When JDH goes to Germany, will he ask seed men if their marvellous true breeding lines are the result of selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Aug 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1741 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 14 [August 1855] …
- … Hooker’s departure on his European tour (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 August [1855] , …
- … Gray 1848 . See letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1855] , and to Asa Gray , 25 April [ …
- … separate them! CD’s copy of J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855 is extensively annotated on the …
- … Natural selection . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 August [1855] . Louisa Mary Henslow . …
- … genus Berberis is described in J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855, pp. 215–29; its species …
- … 1855, pp. 43–7. For CD’s previous interest in Hooker’s work on this genus, see letter from J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 28 [July 1855]
Summary
Praise for JDH’s Flora Indica [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson (1855)] from CD and C. J. F. Bunbury.
CD and J. S. Henslow dining in London. JDH invited.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 143a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1731 |
To Arthur Henfrey 17 March [1855]
Summary
Can AH give information about D. A. Godron, "De l’espèce et des races" [Mem. Soc. Sci. Lett. & Arts Nancy (1847): 182, 239–88]? CD unable to locate reference.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Henfrey |
Date: | 17 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1648 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [July 1855]
Summary
Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.
JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1719 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 18 [July 1855] …
- … scientific symbol for male:
♂ . J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855. Only the first volume was … - … Dict. Biog. ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [July 1855] , n. 3. Thomas Bell Salter had …
- … in early June. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 5 June [1855] , 15 [June 1855] , and 5 July [ …
- … Hooker and J. D. Hooker 1847 . Wollaston 1854 . See letter from T. V. Wollaston, 2 March [1855] . …
From J. D. Hooker 7 December 1856
Summary
Has done New Zealand flora calculations. Results support CD’s theory of necessity of crossing. Trees tend to have separate sexes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 113–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2014 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 7 March 1855]
Summary
CD’s tabulation of colonists curious but explicable.
Working on Tasmanian flora; contemplating general essay on Australian distribution: Tasmania and Australia same alpine species; Swan River flora very peculiar and quite distinct from New South Wales.
Trying to establish new journal at Linnean.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 Mar 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 216–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1638 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [before 7 March 1855] …
- … various geographical areas by dispersal or migration. J. D. Hooker 1855–60 . The flora of …
- … relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] . Godron 1848–9 . CD did read …
- … with him on Flora Indica (J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855). John Joseph Bennett , secretary …
- … introductory essay of Flora Tasmaniæ ( J. D. Hooker 1855–60 ). Thomas Thomson , Hooker’s …
To J. D. Hooker 8 [November 1855]
Summary
Very impressed by Candolle’s book [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)]. Wants to recalculate his results.
CD’s pigeon fancy is getting on.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1774 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 8 [November 1855] …
- … unlikely that work would proceed quickly. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 November [1855] . …
- … Candolle 1855 in letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 October [1855] . Candolle had given tables, …
- … 1855 . The Flora Indica (J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855) was originally planned to be a …
To J. D. Hooker 27 May [1855]
Summary
CD’s seed paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8];
CD attacks Forbes’s "Atlantis".
Considers solutions to floating problem. Decides to test Azores seeds.
Photographs and drawings of CD.
Plant movement experiments with Hedysarum gyrans.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 May [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1688 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 27 May [1855] …
- … Himalayan journals ( J. D. Hooker 1854a ) was published on 10 December 1855 ( Publishers’ …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1855] , n. 5. Hewett Cottrell Watson had botanised …
- … xiv. The introductory essay to J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855 included a strongly worded …
- … an essential part of botany (J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855, pp. 13–18). William Benjamin …
- … Hooker had favoured Forbes’s theory in J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxii–xxv. The results were disappointing to CD. See letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 November [1855]. …
- … 1855]. CD refers to Edward Forbes’s explanation of the origin of the British flora in which plants were thought to have migrated to Britain over former land-bridges and continental extensions ( Forbes 1846 ). CD had previously criticised Forbes’s views in Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1855]
Summary
Asks JDH not to send H. C. Watson’s paper on Azores plants [Hooker’s Lond. J. Bot. 2 (1843): 1–9, 125–31, 394–408; 3 (1844): 582–617; 6 (1847): 380–97].
CD cannot endure trying all the Azorean seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1692 |
From J. D. Hooker [8 July 1855]
Summary
Australian Leguminosae problem: of 900 species not ten are common to southwest and southeast. No migration; hence either creation or variation.
Himalayan thistles: graded intermediates between large and small English species, "shakes species to their foundations". Similarity of CD’s and his views on species.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 192–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1714 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1855]
Summary
Seeds: worried they will turn into another barnacle job.
Studies plants colonising abandoned field.
Experiment on plant sleep movements.
CD objects to "Atlantis" because no evidence; does not affect species theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1693 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1855] …
- … forwarded to CD by Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1855] ). George Snow’s …
- … and n. 8). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1855] and 13 April [1855] . Catharine …
- … s, nurserymen (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1855] , n. 3). There is a copy of …
To J. D. Hooker 10 October [1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Oct [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1763 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 10 October [1855] …
- … currents. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 April [1855] , n. 2, and subsequent letters. …
- … September 1855 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [October 1855] . The letter has not been …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 August [1855] , n. 4. After his appointment as assistant …
To J. D. Hooker 18 [October 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Oct 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1742 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [July 1855]
Summary
CD experiments: sowing seeds in fields; "breaking" seeds’ constitution with coloured light; plant hybridisation. Compiling works on hybridism.
Respect for W. B. Carpenter.
Note on "nectar secreting" to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 258–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1717 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 14 [July 1855] …
- … seeds for a hybridising experiment. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [July 1855] , n. 1. …
- … experiments (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 June [1855] ). William Benjamin Carpenter , …
- … portion of letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] , a response to CD’s complaints …
To J. R. Crowe 9 November 1855
Summary
Thanks him for seeds used in immersion experiment.
Sends thanks to M. N. Blytt and says to tell him species names.
Mentions meeting Edward Sabine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Rice Crowe |
Date: | 9 Nov 1855 |
Classmark: | Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), Oslo (Brevs. 66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1777 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 [December 1854]
Summary
Debates aberrant species, e.g., Ornithorhynchus and Echidna, with JDH. CD argues they are result of extinction having removed intermediate links to allied forms.
Studying effects of disuse in wings of tame and wild ducks.
Tabulations showing that number of species in a genus is not correlated with number of genera in an order.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 [Dec 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1612 |
letter | (213) |
Darwin, C. R. | (137) |
Hooker, J. D. | (39) |
Gray, Asa | (5) |
Watson, H. C. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (80) |
Darwin, C. R. | (71) |
Gray, Asa | (10) |
Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (208) |
Hooker, J. D. | (119) |
Gray, Asa | (15) |
Lyell, Charles | (11) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |