To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 May [1863]
Summary
CD’s encouragement of John Scott, who has found a case of self-incompatibility in orchids, like William Herbert’s in Crinum.
Nägeli on phyllotaxy.
CD’s observations on broom fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4191 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1863]
Summary
Likes JDH’s review of Alphonse de Candolle [Mémoires et souvenirs de A. P. de Candolle (1862)].
Falconer’s article on Lyell ["Primitive man. What led to the question?", Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] too severe.
CD has written a letter to the Athenæum "to say, under the cloak of attacking Heterogeny, a word in my own defence" [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Bates’s Travels [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)] are excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4103 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 May 1863]
Summary
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4148 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 October 1863
Summary
With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 167–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 March 1863]
Summary
John Lubbock’s lecture on man a success [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1863): 29–40].
JDH on the effect of the Civil War on Asa Gray.
JDH’s opinion of Lyell on glaciers is improving.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 111–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4019 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 March 1863]
Summary
Owen is the author of the Athenæum article [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19]. JDH dismisses it as vulgar rubbish. W. B. Carpenter intends to write a reply.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 126–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4098 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 March 1863]
Summary
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2027 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1863
Summary
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 163–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4306 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 May 1863]
Summary
Flora of Cameroons shakes JDH’s faith in ability to explain past or present migrations. Sees need for a major novel explanation such as natural selection, glacial cold, or continental connections.
Lyell in a bad way about feud with Falconer.
JDH’s opinion of Wallace, Bates, J. E. Gray, Owen, Asa Gray, Lubbock, and Bentham.
Bentham’s Linnean Society address [see 4118].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 143–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4169 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
letter | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |