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 |
From H. C. Watson [3? January 1860]
Summary
Notes by HCW on the Origin dealing especially with divergence and convergence. Believes there is some natural tendency to converge into groups in opposition to divergence generated by natural selection.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3? Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 135–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2636 |
From H. C. Watson 30 November [1859]
Summary
Sends a correction for Origin reprint.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2562 |
From H. C. Watson 21 November [1859]
Summary
Believes natural selection will become recognised as an established truth in science, though it will shock the ideas of many men.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: B9–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2540 |
To J. D. Hooker [26 May 1859]
Summary
Returning from Moor Park. CD will take up proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [26 May 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2464 |
From H. C. Watson to George Gordon 27 June 1861
Summary
Regrets he cannot assist the fulfilment of CD’s request for a specimen of the orchid Corallorhiza.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | George Gordon |
| Date: | 27 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3197F |
From Henry Doubleday 3 May 1860
Summary
Has read Origin with pleasure.
Has performed many experiments which confirm his opinion that primrose, oxlip, and cowslip are three distinct species.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162.2: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2781 |
From H. C. Watson 3 January 1858
Summary
Discusses the ranges and distribution of varieties relative to the type species.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1855]
Summary
Pea self-fertilisation: has forty-five varieties growing side by side.
Describes seed-salting experiments: e.g., immersion in tank filled with snow. Reports some successful germinations.
Made list of naturalised plants from Asa Gray’s Manual [of Botany] to calculate the proportions of the great families.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1667 |
To Charles Lyell 4 [January 1860]
Summary
Praises CL’s work on human species.
A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].
A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.
A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 4 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2637 |
To H. C. Watson [5–11 January 1860]
Summary
Discusses the possibility of "convergence" occurring; believes it could be only very limited.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Date: | [5–11 Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 136a (verso); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 77–87) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2639 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1859 , p. liii. The last page of the letter, beginning with ‘like to hear. ’, has been transcribed from a draft in DAR 47 (ser. 2): 136a. It is in the hand of an amanuensis, although CD added several corrections and his signature. Watson discussed his idea of convergence at length in the letter from H. C. …
From J. D. Hooker [11 May – 3 December 1860]
Summary
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 May – 3 Dec 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3036 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1858]
Summary
JDH has confirmed CD’s opinion on the affinities of species in great genera. Is looking at large genera in several local Floras to find the "range & commonness of varying species".
Has been "beyond measure interested" in the construction instincts of the hive-bee.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2228 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 February 1864
Summary
John Scott’s paper [see 4332] read at Linnean Society; praised by George Bentham.
Himalayan pine in Macedonia.
JDH is in a quarrel with H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 161; DAR 101: 180–1, 201 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4401 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Watson’s work on plant geography, see Egerton 1979 , Browne 1983 , pp. 65–8, and DSB . Watson had been a supporter of CD’s theory and a friendly critic of natural selection (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] and n. 7, and Correspondence vol. 8, letter from H. C. …
From H. C. Watson 14 December [1857]
Summary
Will shortly return CD’s list of varieties of British plants. Discusses the situations in which different varieties of species are often found and the ranges of varieties relative to those of the species.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A11–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2183 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … H. C. Watson, 20 December [1857] . CD used Watson and Syme eds. 1853 for his Table I ( Natural selection , p. 149), but for the ranges of species he used the subsequent edition (Watson and Syme eds. 1857) ( Natural selection , p. 168). Although the printing of the fourth volume of Waton’s Cybele Britannica commenced in 1858, it was not published until 1859 ( …
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 4 January 1861
Summary
Comments on the travels of JDH.
Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.
Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Jan 1861 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041A |
Matches: 1 hit
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| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Gordon, George (a) | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Watson, H. C. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Gordon, George (a) | (1) |
