To J. D. Hooker [20? July 1860]
Summary
CD’s reaction to review of the Origin [by Samuel Wilberforce] in Quarterly Review [see 2881].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [20? July 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 33a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2875 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … John Lubbock, 22 and 26 March 1865 and n. 3). The reference is to Auguste Laugel . In 1860, …
- … John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. Jordan, Alexis. 1864. Diagnoses d’espèces nouvelles ou méconnues, pour servir de matériaux à une flore réformée de la France, et des contrées voisines. Paris: F. Savy. Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1860. …
To J. D. Hooker 6 January [1875]
Summary
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 365–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9805 |
Matches: 1 hit
To J. D. Hooker 21 March [1871]
Summary
Asks name of an Abutilon from Fritz Müller.
Questions about Drosophyllum for experiments;
the meaning of "Sirdar".
Wonderful success of Descent. Astonished by liberality of public. No abuse yet.
Marvels at JDH’s plans for a trip to Morocco. Asks him to look for alpine insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 190–192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7607 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John and Ellen Frances Lubbock . CD had received specimens of Drosophyllum lusitanicum from Portugal in 1869 and had given two plants and seed to Hooker (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Inwards book , p. 197, No. 336, 29 September 1869; see also Correspondence vol. 17, letter to W. C. Tait, 27 August [1869] and n. 4). CD had studied Drosera (the genus of sundews) since 1860 ( …
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1860]
Summary
CD’s list of fifteen converts. His opinions on opponents and supporters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2719 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1860, p. 308. The letter from Hewett Cottrell Watson has not been found. William Henry Harvey’s publications were almost exclusively taxonomic or descriptive works. CD had read Harvey’s more general treatise ( Harvey 1854 ) but did not find it of great interest (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to S. P. Woodward, 18 July 1856 ). Charles Lyell , Andrew Crombie Ramsay , Joseph Beete Jukes , and Henry Darwin Rogers . Thomas Henry Huxley , John Lubbock , …
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 February 1868 . Hooker had enclosed letters from Henry Tibbats Stainton and Thomas Vernon Wollaston with his letter of 1 February 1868 ; the letter from Wollaston has not been found. He also sent Wollaston’s book on the Cape Verde beetles ( Wollaston 1867 ). Wollaston’s anonymous review of Origin appeared in Annals and Magazine of Natural History ( [Wollaston] 1860 ). …
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock , Michael Pakenham Edgeworth , and George Charles Wallich . Since the publication of Origin , CD and Hooker had been interested in learning Bentham’s opinion of CD’s views on the origin of species. See Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 December 1859] ; and ibid . , vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [1860] . …
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