From J. D. Hooker 20 May 1868
Summary
Trip with Huxley was perfect.
At Torquay later he had a lecture on "Kent’s hole" from Joseph Pengelly.
George Bentham acknowledges himself unreservedly a convert to Darwinism. Many will still cling to a "rag of protection, but will eventually haul it down".
A. Murray’s later parts better than first [? Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Wallace’s paper shows great ability.
Disgusted with [Duke of Argyll’s] Reign of law.
His depression and exhaustion.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 210–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6189 |
To J. D. Hooker [20 May 1868]
Summary
Encloses grass from locust dung sent from Natal. Asks for name of grass.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20 May 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6190 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 May [1868]
Summary
JDH too severe on Duke of Argyll.
Pities JDH on [BAAS] address [see 6099]; Huxley feels JDH will do well and will not pity him.
Thinks Huxley will give an excellent and original lecture on geographical distribution of birds.
Has been working hard on sexual selection and correspondence about it.
Mignonette is sterile with its own pollen but any two distinct plants are fertile together. It is utterly mysterious and not even Pangenesis will explain it.
On Lyell’s book [Principles, 10th ed.].
Wallace’s wonderful cleverness, but he is not cautious enough. CD differs from Wallace on birds’ nests and protection.
A. Murray’s miserable criticism of Wallace [J. Travel & Nat. Hist. 1 (1868): 137–45].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 May [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 62–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6196 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 June 1868
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 214–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6231 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 June [1868]
Summary
Congratulations on birth of daughter. CD used to dread birth-time.
Sexual selection has turned out to be a large subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6233 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1868]
Summary
Sends second lot of grass grown from locust dung pellets from Natal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6243 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 June 1868
Summary
Will get name of grass [see 6243] from Gen. William Munro.
Has heard from Charles Wheatstone that CD has Prussian Order of Merit. Rejoices because it is the only distinction worth a fig.
Went to Handel festival; heard Messiah.
Went to poor old N. B. Ward’s funeral.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 216–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6247 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [June 1868]
Summary
On Pour le Mérite; JDH has made him think more highly of it.
Messiah is the one thing he would like to hear again, but thinks his soul might be too dried up now to appreciate it. Sometimes hates science for making him "a withered leaf" for everything else.
Frank [Darwin] now doing botany seriously.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 [June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 72–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6248 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 218–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6254 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 June [1868]
Summary
Thanks for name of grass.
Plans to go to Isle of Wight on 17 July.
Frank cannot come to Kew, as he will be reading this long vacation at Cambridge.
Delighted with Bentham’s Presidential Address [Linnean Society, 1868].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 74–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6259 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 July [1868]
Summary
Sketches out subjects he intends to speak on at Norwich [BAAS meeting]: museums, CD’s work in botany, Pangenesis, early history of mankind.
Asks about CD’s "book on man" [Descent].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 220–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6272 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July 1868
Summary
Thinks JDH would be wise not to touch on Pangenesis; it has very few friends. Bentham is doubtful, Carus against, and Alphonse de Candolle likes it least in the book. CD still convinced it will be hereafter looked on as "best hypothesis of generation inheritance & development". If JDH means to cut up Pangenesis he has no word to say in opposition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 76–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6276 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 July 1868]
Summary
Looks forward to seeing JDH and hearing about address.
Feels better already.
Disappointed in house [they have taken at Freshwater].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 July 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 78–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6279 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 July 1868
Summary
Asks for information on how many languages Origin has appeared in, how many English and American editions it has gone through, and its reception abroad. Wants to disprove statement that the theory is "fast passing away".
Baby ill, scarcely any hope of recovery.
Some botanical books have come for CD.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 225–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6288 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 July [1868]
Summary
Sorry to hear of baby’s illness.
Comments on statement that belief in natural selection is passing away. Common descent of species is almost universally accepted now, and this is more important. In large part acceptance is due to Origin. Discusses reception of and interest in Origin in various countries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 July [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6292 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 July 1868
Summary
Thanks for information in CD’s letter.
Baby has been ill.
Has finished rough sketch of [BAAS] address.
Has got G. H. Richard to take Geographical Section at Norwich meeting.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 222–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6296 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 August 1868
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6307 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [August 1868]
Summary
Enjoyed JDH’s visit.
Mrs Cameron’s photograph of JDH is grand.
Has heard J. V. Carus will be at Norwich. Suggests JDH mention that Origin was translated by two distinguished naturalists, H. G. Bronn and Carus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 [Aug 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6321 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 August 1868
Summary
Asks JDH to obtain from Sven Nilsson information on whether, in reindeer species in which both sexes are horned, the horns are first developed earlier or later than in species in which males alone have horns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | Lund University Library Special Collections (Sven Nilsson papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6324 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 August 1868]
Summary
Reports on Norwich address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e., Asa Gray’s being superseded.
Tyndall says CD and JDH are types of "unconscious merit".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Aug 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6326 |
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