From J. D. Hooker [4 September 1866]
Summary
On his "Insular floras" lecture.
Huxley’s success as President of Section.
D. W. R. Grove’s address. Grove left Darwinism to JDH after "sounding the charge".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Sept 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 100–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5206 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 September 1866
Summary
[N. C.?] Seringe’s article [unspecified] has come safely.
Feels deeply at CD’s distress [Susan Darwin is dying].
Drosera will go in a day or two.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Sept 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5214 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1866]
Summary
Susan Darwin still lives, but is dying.
Requests an Erica massoni to compare with Drosera.
On L. Agassiz’s "astonishing" view that Amazon Valley was filled with gigantic glacier. Asa Gray says LA is determined to cover the globe with glaciers in order to destroy "Darwinian views".
Excellent review of A. Murray [The geographical distribution of mammals] in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 902].
Frankland’s Royal Institution lecture ["On the source of muscular power" Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1862–6): 661–85].
Wallace’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5217 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1866
Summary
Drosera and Erica massoni have been sent.
Had heard of Agassiz’s theory but not that CD’s theory had raised it.
JDH wrote the article on A. Murray.
Frankland’s lecture too much for him.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 106–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5222 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
