To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1860]
Summary
Dissection of Leschenaultia convinces CD insect agency necessary for self-fertilisation in this case.
Primroses and cowslips seem universally to occur in two forms. Very curious to see which plants set seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2795 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [May 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2798 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1860]
Summary
Instructs JDH on how to pollinate Leschenaultia.
Evidence of Leschenaultia and the dioecious condition of cowslips and Auricula is making necessity of insect pollination "clear and clearer".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2800 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1860]
Summary
Lyell, de facto, first to stress importance of geological changes for geographical distribution.
Asa Gray has given CD too much credit for theories of geographical distribution.
Reaction to hostile criticism
and debt to Lyell, Huxley, JDH, and W. B. Carpenter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2802 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 May [1860]
Summary
Gives references to experiments on cowslip for W. H. Harvey.
Suggests possible sources of error in results. Feels evidence is overwhelming that cowslip and primrose are varieties.
Has received laudatory verses on the Origin from some botanist; suspects Francis Boott.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 May [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2811 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [May 1860]
Summary
Floral anatomy.
Wallace’s capital response on reading Origin.
E. W. Binney has published on coal-plants living in marine waters ["On the origin of coal", Mem. Lit. & Philos. Soc. Manchester 2d ser. 8 (1848): 148–94], an old CD idea.
Waste of pollen in horse chestnut will make a good case against perfection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2813 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [May 1860]
Summary
Convinced selection is the efficient cause. Less convinced of physical causes than JDH because he sees adaptation everywhere and that must be due to selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [May 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2816 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1860]
Summary
Harvey’s letter to JDH more accepting of natural selection than CD expected.
Battle over Origin is raging in the United States.
Weary of hostile reviews.
Doubts about going to Oxford [for BAAS meeting].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 May [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2818 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1860]
Summary
CD’s response to criticism of natural selection. Exasperated at not being understood. He tries to narrow the gap between himself and JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2821 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 June [1860]
Summary
Floral anatomy of Goodeniaceae: although flowers seem to fertilise themselves by pistil moving to anther, CD shows that insect agency is necessary. Wants JDH to check his interpretation of stigmatic surface.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 June [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2823 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 [June 1860]
Summary
Progress of [Thomas?] Thomson and G. H. K. Thwaites on accepting mutability.
Bee orchid pollination.
JDH has written to CD on homologies of stigma in Goodeniaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2830 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [June 1860]
Summary
Going for hydropathy. Too ill for Oxford BAAS meeting.
Pollination by minute insects.
CD proves his view regarding Goodenia stigmatic surfaces by dissection and following pollen-tubes up to grains.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [June 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2846 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 July 1860]
Summary
CD, ill and despondent about hostile reviews, is cheered by JDH’s account of Oxford battle, particularly by willingness of JDH and Huxley to fight for CD’s theory in public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2853 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 July 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2856 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 July 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2858 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1860]
Summary
Floral anatomy; pistil curvature and pistil movement. CD’s rule that bent pistils occur in "gangway" into nectaries.
The book JDH is planning, which he and CD discussed at Kew, should deal with plant reproduction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2864 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 [July 1860]
Summary
Asa Gray’s anonymous review.
"Intensely interested" in orchid homologies; like a "game of chess".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 [July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2871 |
To J. D. Hooker [20? July 1860]
Summary
CD’s reaction to review of the Origin [by Samuel Wilberforce] in Quarterly Review [see 2881].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20? July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 33a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2875 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 July 1860]
Summary
Asa Gray’s articles in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [10 Apr 1860] excellent; considering asking Athenæum to reprint them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2878 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 July [1860]
Summary
Casual observations on Drosera.
Wants to know author of good review of Origin in London Review [& Wkly J. Polit. 1 (1860): 11–12, 32–3, 58–9].
Athenæum will reprint Gray’s discussion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 July [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2880 |