To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1857]
Summary
Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2099 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 June [1857]
Summary
"Law" [see 2092] correlating variability and abnormal development not confirmed by JDH for plants.
CD studies struggle for existence in his weed garden.
Scotch fir observed at Moor Park.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2101 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1857]
Summary
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2102 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 June [1857]
Summary
Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2112 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1857]
Summary
George Henslow’s curtness to JDH: "an attack of religion".
Embryonic leaves. Adaptive functions and taxonomic significance of cotyledons.
Asa Gray. Separation of sexes in U. S. trees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2116 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1857]
Summary
Does JDH’s Wahlenbergia confirm CD’s law? Variations of one species assume the character of a distinct but allied species or genus.
Seed-salting: old ones float and germinate.
Owen’s "grand paper" [? J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 2 (1858): 1–37].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2117 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1857]
Summary
Asks to borrow several Floras. Must redo calculations as John Lubbock has shown him an important error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2124 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857]
Summary
Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only strongly marked varieties. Planning large-scale survey.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 206, 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2130 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 August [1857]
Summary
Tabulation of varieties goes on; very important as it shows the branching of forms. Mentions his principle of divergence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2134 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2137 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1857]
Summary
Representative species may complicate tabulation of varieties.
Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway.
Has been writing an "audacious little discussion" to show that "organic beings are not perfect, only perfect enough to struggle with their competitors".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 211; DAR 115: 73a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2140 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1857]
Summary
C. F. Ledebour [Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. Results generally favourable.
Additions to Down House.
Last two chapters of MS took six months to write.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2148 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 October [1857]
Summary
Returns some of the systematics books borrowed from JDH. Will now take on A. P. and Alphonse de Candolle [Prodromus].
Arrangements for a visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 212, 222c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2156 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Oct 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2157 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857]
Summary
Rule that species vary most in larger genera seems universal.
Response to Gardeners’ Chronicle note on "Bees and kidney beans" [Collected papers 1: 275–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Nov 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2170 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 November [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Nov [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2174 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2180 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 December [1857]
Summary
Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2182 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1857]
Summary
Species with marked varieties.
Dana’s pamphlet also too metaphysical for CD.
Natural selection chapter on hybridism completed.
Doubts JDH will resist theory in his introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2194 |
To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [June 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 222b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2198 |
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