To J. D. Hooker 25 [June 1863]
Summary
CD describes first observation of gyratory motion of tendrils: explains its adaptive function is to find objects to hold on to.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4221 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4227 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4241 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1863]
Summary
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4250 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [July 1863]
Summary
Asa Gray writes as if Civil War were a holy war.
J. E. Renan on Jesus [Vie de Jésus (1863)].
Literature on tendrils of Cucurbita is contradictory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4254 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 August [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4261 |
To J. D. Hooker 12–13 August [1863]
Summary
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12–13 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4266 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [August 1863]
Summary
CD’s illness: he is vomiting "vegetable" cells.
Dutrochet has published the best of CD’s observations on tendrils [see Climbing plants, p. 1 n.].
Lyell has found Joshua Trimmer’s Arctic shells on Moel Tryfan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4274 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 October 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Oct 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4318 |
To J. D. Hooker [30 October 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [30 Oct 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4324 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [November 1863]
Summary
Pleased with JDH’s account of his French tour.
Doctor Brinton, recommended by Busk, does not believe CD’s brain or heart affected. Feels he is going steadily downhill. If so, hopes his life will be short.
Sends Haast’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4335 |
To J. D. Hooker [13 November 1863]
Summary
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4341 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [November 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4342 |
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4348 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [December 1863]
Summary
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Dec 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4353 |