From J. D. Hooker 12 April [1865]
Summary
W. J. Hooker is unwell.
Bentham wrote on Planchon ["The ancient and modern floras of Montpellier", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 202–25],
T. Thomson on subspecies ["Species and subspecies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 226–42]
and Greene of York on ["The Linnean Society’s transactions", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 189–202].
JDH did the leader in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1865): 267–8, 291–2].
Delighted with CD’s calm opinion of Origin. Has same view of some of his own papers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4812 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 8. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] . …
- … and Joseph Reay Greene . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] and n. 7. Hooker …
- … 25 March 1865, pp. 267–8; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] and n. …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] . The reference is to William Jackson Hooker . See letter from J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker [15 and] 20 November [1862]
Summary
Sends CD West Ireland soundings.
More detail on his review "a la Lindley" [see 3797].
Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566] is capital.
Andrew Murray’s article plays into CD’s hands through sheer ignorance.
JDH is on Royal Society Council.
Has no recollection of applying natural selection to Polynesians. None but a German would dig out such a passage if it exists [see 3812].
Has caused Tyndall to modify his pseudo-geology.
Has not seen Duke of Argyll’s review [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97]. [The Duke] did not understand Orchids the least little bit, nor the Origin, when JDH saw him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 20 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 71–2, 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3807 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … by the relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] ; the Saturday …
- … 1862c). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . [J. D. Hooker] 1862c, …
- … earlier in the year (see letters from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1862] , 17 March 1862 , …
- … of Variation & Variability’. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . The …
- … G. D. Campbell] 1862 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n. 26, …
- … See letter to Daniel Oliver, 23 [November 1862] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 …
- … letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 November [1862] and [10–]12 November [1862] ). Hooker refers to the botanists Robert Brown and John Lindley , and to his anonymous three-part review of Orchids ([J. D. …
- … letters from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] , [31 January – 8 February 1862] , and [23 March 1862] ). John Tyndall . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–] …
From J. D. Hooker 14 December 1866
Summary
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 121–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5305 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … by Fritz Müller in Brazil. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] and n. 2. …
- … up in the bird’s gizzard (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] and n. 3). ‘ …
- … letter of 10 December [1866] . CD’s annotations are notes for his reply to this letter (see letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … Hooker refers to Variation (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] and n. 7). …
- … vol. 13, letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and nn. …
- … letter to Hooker of 10 December [1866] . Hooker had earlier favoured the explanation of a former land-bridge but had recently conceded that occasional transport was a viable means of distribution ( J. D. …
- … 10. Hooker had been a guest of Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell on 11 December 1866 (see letter from J. D. …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1866] and n. 5). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 …
- … letter to Hooker of 10 December [1866] , CD referred to Herbert Spencer , whose Principles of biology ( Spencer 1864–7 ) was appearing in instalments. CD and Hooker often discussed the latest number as they received it and commented on the speculative nature of Spencer’s writing (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. …
From Mary Boott 18 January 1864
Author: | Mary Hardcastle; Mary Boott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4391 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1870]
Summary
Has not heard of Curtis on Dionaea.
Duke of Argyll is clever, but it is a sin to speak of a real old Duke as a "little beggar".
"My theology is a simple muddle: I cannot look at the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent Design."
On spontaneous generation and Bastian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 179–180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7273 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 March [1862]
Summary
Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray.
Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to see JDH’s to Bates. Point raised in it is most difficult. "There is one clear line of distinction; – when many parts of structure as in woodpecker show distinct adaptation to external bodies, it is preposterous to attribute them to effect of climate etc. – but when a single point, alone, as a hooked seed, it is conceivable that it may thus have arisen." His study of orchids shows nearly all parts of the flower co-adapted for fertilisation by insects and therefore the result of natural selection. Mormodes ignea "is a prodigy of adaptation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3472 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … England (see n. 12, below). Letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1862] . See letter from …
- … See the enclosure to the letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1862] . See the enclosure …
- … March 1862] and n. 10. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1862] . According …
- … 10 March 1862] : CD wrote ‘Photograph’ at the top of that letter (see CD annotations). For Hooker’s negative opinion of his photographic likeness, see the letter from J. D. …
- … letter from D. F. Nevill, [ c. 14 March 1862] and n. 3. Oliver 1862b . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 …
- … letter to H. W. Bates, 16 April [1862] , Hooker stayed with the Darwins from 17 to 21 April 1862. Frances Harriet Hooker . John and Ellen Frances Lubbock . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 …
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1866]
Summary
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 118–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5302 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] . …
- … December 1866 (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 5 December [1866] and 10 December [1866] ). …
- … letter of 10 December [1866] . Hooker refers to the Wedgwood medallions that he failed to acquire at the sale in Shrewsbury of Susan Elizabeth Darwin’s effects (see letter from J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 11 November 1863
Summary
Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.
Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4339 |
From Asa Gray 11 April 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4081 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … See letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 14. …
- … miscarriage (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and …
- … Tylor (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. …
- … umbellules (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and …
- … to the stem (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and …
- … Review in the letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] , and …
- … letter is written in pencil in CD’s hand. The last letter CD had written to Hooker in his own hand was that of 1 June [1865]. See letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 …
- … letter to Hooker of [10 July 1865] , CD made no mention of having received the proofs for a new section to be added to the preface of the third edition of Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863c ). In response to Lubbock’s allegation of plagiarism against him (see letter to J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1864]
Summary
Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 262–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4708 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Charles Victor Naudin . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] and nn. 3 and …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [ …
- … between this letter and the letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and 10 December [ …
- … for example, the letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1864] and nn. 10 and 11. Ruskin’s …
To J. D. Hooker 8 July [1870]
Summary
Thinks well of Claparède’s criticism; worth publishing as an answer to Wallace. Bates thinks Wallace’s heterodox views have done mischief to the cause of evolution. Wallace thinks Claparède’s article very weak, CD concludes, because Claparède has arrived at an unpleasant judgment very much like Lyell’s about Bentham’s address.
CD would wager Lyell lately has said something about European Proteaceae.
Does not remember anyone before Wallace on Sumatra and Java.
CD does not think he has a chance against Brandt in French Academy election.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7271 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858]
Summary
At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: E1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2367 |
To J. D. Hooker [19 July 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [19 July 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1101 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 January [1863]
Summary
Acquired characteristics.
Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.
Asa Gray on slavery.
Falconer’s partial conversion.
Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3913 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 December 1862] , and this volume, letter to J. D. …
- … See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 December 1862] , and this …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 …
- … 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 119: 22b). Hooker had been commissioned to write a flora of New Zealand ( J. D. …
- … letter to Hooker of 3 November [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD enclosed a list of the seeds he wanted for experiments on sensitivity in plants. See also ibid. , letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … 10, letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ). In November and December 1862, CD and Hooker debated the effects of crossing on variation, with Hooker maintaining that self-fertilisation did not favour variation, ‘whereas crossing tends to variation by adding differences’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. …
- … 5). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1863] , and letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [ …
- … letter and n. 6. A. de Candolle 1862a , pp. 354–61, 363. See Intellectual Observer 3 (1863): 81–6, for a translation of the last portion of A. de Candolle 1862b . See also following letter and n. 7. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1864]
Summary
W. H. Harvey’s dandelion case worth publishing.
Suspects the uniform Primula elatior JDH referred to is a distinct species.
Scott’s paper on Passiflora shows variability of reproductive systems.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4531 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … to letter from J. D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [ …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [11 June 1864] and n. 7. CD refers to James Veitch (1815–69), who owned a nursery in Chelsea. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 …
- … See letter from W. H. Harvey, 19 May 1864 and n. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [ …
- … 108: 8–10 and 32 v. CD refers to John Scott . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [11 June …
- … letter from John Scott, 10 June [1864] and n. 2. CD refers to Joseph Decaisne . Hooker had informed CD of Decaisne’s view, presented in Decaisne 1863 , pp. 10–11, that the flowers of Delphinium , or larkspur, self-pollinate in the bud, and do not normally intercross (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. …
To John Scott 11 June [1863]
Summary
Hooker is impressed by JS’s MS on closing of stigma.
He will help find him a position. Hooker says if it is known that JS agrees with CD’s views, he will be unpopular in Edinburgh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 11 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4212 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 January 1863
Summary
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 88–91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3902 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Hooker considered Huxley responsible (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. …
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 December 1862] ). In …
- … see also Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 November 1862 . See also …
- … 10). CD had told Hooker that he was ‘burning with indignation’ at the conduct of Richard Owen towards Hugh Falconer (see letter to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1863]
Summary
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3898 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] , and …
- … him (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 December 1862] and n. …
- … letter of [27 or 28 December 1862] ( ibid. ). See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … following letter and n. 5. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [27 …
- … letter to Charles Lyell of 10 April [1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8), CD referred to the review: ‘It is painful to be hated in the intense degree with which Owen hates me’. For accounts of the additional differences between CD and Owen, see Hull 1973 , pp. 171–215, and Rupke 1994 . CD also strongly objected to the ‘slighting way’ Owen alluded to J. D. Hooker …
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