From J. D. Hooker [14 December 1862]
Summary
On Asa Gray’s letter; has written why he avoids alluding to the war.
Has read Max Müller [see 3752] – last part unphilosophical.
On CD’s pigeon example, long-beaked and short-beaked pigeons must be either sterile or not inter se. There is "no such thing as Equality – hence no such thing as chance and Nat. Sel. is the sword of Damocles hanging over your head if you make a slip in your premisses."
Has read note on Lythrum sent several weeks ago. Its consequences are of most prolific order to CD’s doctrine.
Kew has no wild gooseberries.
JDH praises the Saturday Review reply [14 (1862): 589] to the Duke of Argyll’s bitter review of Orchids ["The supernatural", Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [14 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3846 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 December 1862]
Summary
"Throttled off" Welwitschia paper at Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 1–48].
Has read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).
Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3856 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 29 December 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 29 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3879F |
From J. D. Hooker [31 December 1862]
Summary
JDH’s impression on meeting [J. A.] Froud[e].
CD’s projected three volume work.
Complains at poor state of some [unspecified] plant collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3890 |
From J. D. Hooker [27 or 28 December 1862]
Summary
Hostile to Spencer’s application of natural selection to society.
JDH on J. E. Gray’s views on collecting.
JDH collecting Wedgwood ware.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 or 28] Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 93–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3891 |