To J. D. Hooker 16 March [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Mar [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 481–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11939 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1848]
Summary
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1202 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1879]
Summary
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 July [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 485–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12167 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 October [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 489–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12241 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 October [1879]
Summary
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | Halls (dealers) (29 July 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12249F |
To J. D. Hooker 17 October [1879]
Summary
Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Oct [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 185–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12261 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 November [1879]
Summary
Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Nov [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 191) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12290 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1879]
Summary
Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.
Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.
Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12338 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 March 1849
Summary
CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?
CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.
Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Mar 1849 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1236 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 December 1879
Summary
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Dec 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 491–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12360 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 December [1879]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Dec [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 494–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12363 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 April 1849
Summary
Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.
CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.
CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Apr 1849 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1239 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 October 1849
Summary
CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.
Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.
Details of water-cure.
Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.
Lamination of gneiss.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Oct 1849 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1260 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1880]
Summary
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Nov [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 500–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12870 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 502–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12880 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 504–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12890 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 December 1880
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 507–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12927 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 January 1881
Summary
Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/136/949) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12982 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1850]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1850] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1300 |
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