To J. D. Hooker 17 November [1867]
Summary
Has finished last revise of his book [Variation].
Is curious to know what JDH thinks of Pangenesis. It is fearfully imperfect, yet satisfying, for it connects large groups of facts by an intelligible thread.
Thomas Woolner is coming [to do a bust of CD].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Nov [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 35–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5680 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 November 1867
Summary
Will not be inclined to challenge Pangenesis.
Admits CD’s victory over JDH’s continental hypothesis (but will not give up Greenland).
Relation of variation to circumstances is shown by discovery of endemic St Helena umbellifer having same palm-like habit as an endemic Madeiran species.
Has completed Boott’s Carices [Illustrations of the genus Carex, pt 4 (1867)],
is printing W. H. Harvey’s work [Genera of South African plants, 2d ed. (1868)],
and is revising English edition of Alphonse de Candolle’s Laws of botanical nomenclature [trans. H. A. Weddell (1868)].
Arrangements at Kew. Gardener [John Smith] is very ill; Oliver reigns supreme in the Herbarium.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 182–4, DAR 47: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5683 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1867]
Summary
Woolner’s bust.
Smith’s health.
St Helena Umbelliferae.
Brambles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Nov [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5696 |
letter | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. |