From Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker [31 May 1865]
Summary
Emcloses copies of correspondence concerning his dispute with John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 May 1865] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/14 f.323); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 113/3650–3, 3813–20, 3821–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4844F |
Matches: 18 hits
- … Emcloses copies of correspondence concerning his dispute with John Lubbock. …
- … Lee. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. Lubbock, John. 1861a. The kjökkenmöddings: recent …
- … History Review n.s. 1: 489–504. Lubbock, John. 1862c. On the ancient lake habitations of …
- … Natural History Review n.s. 2: 26–52. Lubbock, John. 1862d. On the evidence of the …
- … Review n.s. 2: 244–69. [Vols. 10,11] Lubbock, John. 1863f. A visit to the ancient shell- …
- … History Review n.s. 3: 415–22. Lubbock, John. 1865a. Pre-historic times, as illustrated by …
- … letters regarding his dispute with John Lubbock to CD and Thomas Henry Huxley as well as …
- … runs of the first edition (letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, Royal …
- … dear Sir Charles, | Yours truly | John Lubbock w Sir C Lyell B t . 53 Harley St May 30/65. …
- … his dispute with Lyell (letter from John Lubbock to Thomas Henry Huxley, 7 June 1865, …
- … written to Lyell in March 1865 (letter from John Lubbock to Charles Lyell, 13 March 1865; …
- … follows ( C. Lyell 1863c , p. 11): Mr. John Lubbock published, after these sheets were …
- … enclosure (letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 30 May 1865). See n. 1, above. …
- … letter from Thomas Henry Huxley to John Lubbock, 7 March 1865, British Library MSS …
- … ADD 49641, and the letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, Royal Botanic …
- … Huxley papers , 6: 104). Lubbock consulted Busk and John Tyndall as well as Huxley and …
- … this will be shewn to John L. Lyell alludes to the note Lubbock had written at the end of …
- … the Lyell & Lubbock correspondence sent him by Sir C. & whereas after talking to John, he …
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1857]
Summary
Asks to borrow several Floras. Must redo calculations as John Lubbock has shown him an important error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2124 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … several Floras . Must redo calculations as John Lubbock has shown him an important error. …
- … Burlington House, Piccadilly ( Gage 1938 ). See letter to John Lubbock, 14 [July 1857] . …
- … The year is established by the reference to John Lubbock (see …
- … letter to John Lubbock, 14 [July 1857] ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 July [1857] . The …
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … with copies of his correspondence with John Lubbock (see letter from Charles Lyell to J. …
- … Leonard Gilchrist. 2002. A scientific libel: John Lubbock’s attack upon Sir Charles Lyell. …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … resolve their disagreement ( letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865 , …
- … 1863a , p. 11), Lyell had written: Mr. John Lubbock published, after these sheets were …
- … him ( letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 , in BL MSS ADD 49640; …
- … June [1865] and n. 7). In June 1865, John Lubbock was 31 and Charles Lyell was 67. Hooker …
- … and enclosures. In the letter from John Lubbock to Charles Lyell, 29 May 1865 , Lubbock …
- … 78–80). The reference is to John and Ellen Frances Lubbock and Thomas Henry and Henrietta …
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1862
Summary
JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.
Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.
Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.
JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3651 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1862b ; see Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 56, John Lubbock’s diary ( British Museum , Add. Ms. …
- … 62679: 64 r. ), and letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 ). …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … 234, and Eve and Creasy 1945, p. 92). John Lubbock met up with them on 13 July, on their …
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1868
Summary
Anxious to hear how the Lubbocks take the disastrous termination to their hopes. [Sir John Lubbock was defeated in the Parliamentary election on 25 Nov 1868.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6477 |
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 7 September 1881
Summary
Comte de Paris requests an orchid from CD for his huge collection.
JDH responds to CD’s criticism of York address.
Arruda Furtado could work on mystery of buried cypress trunks in the Azores.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 168–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13320 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 June 1862
Summary
M. J. Berkeley wrote London Review & Wkly J. Polit. article.
CD is "out of sight the best physiological observer and experimenter that Botany ever saw".
Laments how much he [JDH] missed when doing the Listera ["Functions and structure of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].
Illness of wife and father.
"More plants from Fernando Po and more European".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 42–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3624 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … 1918, 2: 60). William Jackson Hooker . John Lubbock visited Switzerland in the summer of …
- … 1862a ). See Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 56, John Lubbock’s diary ( British Museum , Add. Ms. …
- … 62679: 64 r. ), and letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 ). The first part of Genera …
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 December 1874
Summary
Explains that his letter had to do with how he should act publicly to Mivart if he retracted. He would not forgive him. If he does not retract, it would no longer be possible to keep him Secretary of the Linnean Society.
Drosophyllum will be sent when weather permits.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 243–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9788 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 April 1873]
Summary
Wants to discuss raising a testimonial fund for Huxley and whether Huxley would stand this.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 261–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8843 |
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 |
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: 5 hits
- … There is no mention in the diary of John Lubbock’s visit. Hooker had been concerned about …
- … Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan. …
- … 1865 (see letter from John Lubbock, 22 and 26 March 1865 and n. 3). The reference is to …
- … the election in July (see Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 74). John William Lubbock died on 20 June …
- … Lubbock came here on Friday to lunch & was very pleasant: you will be glad to hear that he did not speak seriously of M rs . L. & I suspect it is only case of family-wayishness. The more I think of it, the sorrier I am about parliament, though yet I do not at all like the thought of his being beaten. He says that he hears that his Book on Man will tell heavily against him. He will be Sir John, …
To J. D. Hooker [29 July 1865]
Summary
Was glad to read JDH’s article on glaciers of Yorkshire ["Moraines of the Tees Valley", Reader 6 (1865): 70].
Reader article [6 (1865): 61–2] about English and foreign men of science is unjust.
Lubbock is now lost to science.
B. Verlot’s pamphlet on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement (1865)] is very good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 July 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 273 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4874 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … sent CD copies of his correspondence with John Lubbock on the issue of plagiarism, but his …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 . CD had written to John Lubbock praising the book ( …
- … see letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] and n. …
- … 2). John Lubbock stood for West Kent in the general election of 1865. He was defeated on …
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: 3 hits
- … Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. ] Quarterly Review …
- … Review ( [Mivart] 1874 , p. 70). John Lubbock’s book was on British wild flowers ( …
- … John William. 1875. History of the conflict between religion and science. London: Henry S. King. [Mivart, St George Jackson. ] 1874b. Primitive man: Tylor and Lubbock. [ …
From J. D. Hooker 21 December 1874
Summary
His view of Huxley’s cutting Mivart without explanation. States his own intentions. Mivart’s apology in October Quarterly Review is abominable.
Has heard of a Drosophyllum in Edinburgh. Is it too late?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 236–8; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Dawson 2.214) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9768 |
From Sven Nilsson to J. D. Hooker 25 October 1868
Summary
His correspondents in Lapland will provide CD with the information on reindeer horns. Refers him to Linnaeus, Amoenitates academicae, vol. 4.
Author: | Sven Nilsson |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6430 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 December 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Begonia and Oxalis.
Keeps obstinate about crossing and could argue till doomsday, but will not bother JDH.
Sees that JDH has finished Welwitschia.
Thinks Huxley’s Working Men’s Lectures excellent.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105],
and abstract of Bates’s paper for Natural History Review,
and has begun to arrange concluding chapters [for Variation]. Is paralysed on how to begin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3871 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 June 1865]
Summary
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4855 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s discussion of the Charles Lyell – John Lubbock plagiarism affair, see the letters from …
- … the letter from T. H. Huxley to John Lubbock, 7 March 1865 (British Library MSS ADD. …
- … his claim of plagiarism ( letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865 , Royal …
- … June 1865] , n. 7. John Tyndall and George Busk , along with Lubbock, were members of the …
From J. D. Hooker [before 15 February 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 15 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 7v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3429 |
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