To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1859]
Summary
Has read first sheets of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [introductory] essay [published separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. Criticises lack of evidence supporting views that best marked varieties occur at edges of range of species and that species remain under cultivation for many generations and suddenly begin to vary.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2450 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859]
Summary
CD hopes Woodward was not the Athenæum reviewer. "The manner in which he drags in immortality, & sets the Priests at me … is base".
JDH has made CD feel he can "face a score of savage reviewers".
H. C. Watson has written to him in tremendous praise of the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2542 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859] …
- … J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . The …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . …
- … views. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Michael Faraday , the director …
To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1859]
Summary
JDH’s comments on style of Origin MS leave CD confused.
CD advises on how to get Acacia to set seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2458 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1859] …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 July [1859] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 July [1859] . …
- … Hooker’s views on reversion were given in Hooker 1859 , pp. viii–ix. CD’s copy of Hooker 1859 is in the Darwin Library–CUL; these pages were annotated by CD, and three passages are marked ‘good’. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 May [1859] . …
To J. D. Hooker 21 [December 1859]
Summary
Delighted JDH coming to Down. They will discuss Origin. JDH’s remarks that theory explains too much are excellent, yet CD cannot see his error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2591 |
From H. C. Watson 30 November [1859]
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2562 |
From J. D. Hooker [9 March 1859]
Summary
Outlines the basic categories of phanerogams.
Places Gymnospermae in the dicotyledons.
Evaluates the variable utility of embryological characters in plant classification.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9 Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2428 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [9 March 1859] …
- … Hooker’s ‘note on embryology’. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 March [1859] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] . …
- … Hooker was one of the few botanists who believed that the Coniferae were highly developed plants in taxonomic terms. See Correspondence vol. 6, letter from J. D. Hooker, 22 November 1856 . Hooker 1859 . …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [December 1859]
Summary
High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of immutable creation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 33, 30a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2606 |
To John Murray 18 May [1859]
Summary
His health has suddenly failed. He is leaving home for one week’s rest.
Has informed William Clowes that he will begin correcting on the 27th.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 18 May [1859] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2463A |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1859]
Summary
JDH finds style of CD’s MS obscure.
CD wary of JDH’s starting point on variability: it is not inherent, it does not lead necessarily to divergence, and it must be distinguished from inheritance.
Asa Gray has misread CD’s views on pre-glacial migrations and botched the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2461 |
To A. R. Wallace 25 January [1859]
Summary
Expresses pleasure and relief at ARW’s response to joint publication of their pieces about natural selection.
Plans for the "abstract" [Origin].
Birds’ nests as evidence of variation of instincts.
Their collection of bees’ combs.
Praises ARW’s article.
Lyell’s and Hooker’s views [of species issue].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 25 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2405 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1858 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 January [1859] . CD was …
- … relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 January [1859] , and to the letter from …
- … 8 March [1859] , and to J. D. Hooker, 15 March [1859]). CD refers to Wallace’s view …
- … J. D. Hooker and Charles Lyell to the Linnean Society, 30 June 1858 , n. 4. CD intended to publish an expanded version of his theory, with full notes and sources, after his ‘abstract’ was issued in 1859. …
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. …
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1866]
Summary
He is not grieved at CD’s omissions of his [JDH’s] work [from Origin, 4th ed.]. It proves nothing – claims only to be illustration of using CD’s methods.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5110 |
To S. P. Woodward 6 March [1860]
Summary
Will be glad to have SPW’s criticisms of Origin.
Discusses his use of terms, "typical" and "specialisation".
Emphasises large body of facts explained by his theory of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2724 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2613 |
To Asa Gray 24 December [1859]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s Japan memoir [Mem. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1857–9): 377–452]. Does not think AG’s arguments for a warm post-glacial period are sufficient, but will not be sorry to be proved wrong.
Believes natural selection explains many classes of facts which repeated creation does not.
Writes of some responses to the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 24 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2599 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2452 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1866]
Summary
Has finished Variation. May insert a chapter on man.
Still puzzled by seeds of Adenanthera.
New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued.
Fritz Müller found six genera of dimorphic plants in one day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 309, 309b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5321 |
To T. H. Huxley 25 November [1859]
Summary
Rejoices over THH’s lecture ["On species and races, and their origin", 10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] to be given at Royal Institution. Offers pigeon illustrations.
Adam Sedgwick has sent a "slashing" letter [2548] about Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 25 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2554 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [27 October or 3 November 1859]
Summary
More detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae]. Remarks on struggle of vegetation are admirable.
JDH will receive Origin in about ten days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 Oct or 3 Nov] 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2512 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [27 October or 3 November 1859] …
- … time between Hooker’s receipt of the letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1859] , and the …
- … sheets of Hooker 1859 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1859] ) in which Hooker …
- … Hooker 1859 , p. c). CD and Hooker had previously discussed Jukes’s views in relation to Hooker’s essay. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 22 December 1858 . Hooker 1859 , …
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