To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [June 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1702 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1711 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [July 1855]
Summary
CD experiments: sowing seeds in fields; "breaking" seeds’ constitution with coloured light; plant hybridisation. Compiling works on hybridism.
Respect for W. B. Carpenter.
Note on "nectar secreting" to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 258–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1717 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [July 1855]
Summary
Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.
JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1719 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 July [1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 July [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1722 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [July 1855]
Summary
Praise for JDH’s Flora Indica [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson (1855)] from CD and C. J. F. Bunbury.
CD and J. S. Henslow dining in London. JDH invited.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 143a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1731 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 [December 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 [Dec 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1736 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 August [1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Aug [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1737 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 August [1855]
Summary
Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.
When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?
Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Aug [1855] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1738 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [August 1855]
Summary
When JDH goes to Germany, will he ask seed men if their marvellous true breeding lines are the result of selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Aug 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1741 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [October 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Oct 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1742 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 October [1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Oct [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1763 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1855]
Summary
Naudin’s theory, in J. Decaisne’s review of Flora Indica, of subspecies descended from a single stock only adds to the confusion. John Lindley and M. J. Berkeley cut down species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1773 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [November 1855]
Summary
Very impressed by Candolle’s book [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)]. Wants to recalculate his results.
CD’s pigeon fancy is getting on.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1774 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1855]
Summary
Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.
Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1781 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1785 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1855]
Summary
Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.
T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1643 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1855]
Summary
CD has begun seed-salting experiments. Wants JDH to write which seeds he expects to be easily killed [in salt water].
CD’s idea that coal-plants lived in salt water like mangroves made JDH savage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1661 |
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 J. D. Hooker 19 April [1855]
Summary
Rejects JDH’s suggestion that seed-salting experiments be conducted on huge scale. Only wishes to demonstrate possibility of sea transport, not establishment of any particular insular flora. More seed results.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1669 |
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