To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1866]
Summary
A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?
A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.
Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.
On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.
Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 308, 308b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5300 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1866]
Summary
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 118–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5302 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 December 1866
Summary
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 121–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5305 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1866]
Summary
Has finished Variation. May insert a chapter on man.
Still puzzled by seeds of Adenanthera.
New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued.
Fritz Müller found six genera of dimorphic plants in one day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 309, 309b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5321 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 December 1866
Summary
Analysis of New Zealand flora; proportion of indigenous annuals.
Uniform climates are poor in species.
Evergreen and deciduous vegetation: relationship to flora and fauna.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 127–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5324 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1866]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?
Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 310, 310b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5326 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 December 1866]
Summary
Suggests fossil leaves go to Heer.
Agrees with CD on cut pages in books.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Dec 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 129–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5328 |
| letter | (67) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (67) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
