From J. D. Hooker [1 March 1847]
Summary
Will come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday for a palaver on distribution, species mutability, migration, etc.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1067 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1876
Summary
JDH prepares Anniversary Address to the Royal Society [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 339–62].
Return of Challenger.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10671 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 March 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1068 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 December 1876
Summary
He has examined Hoya flowers with Bentham and Oliver, but they are not satisfied about the five processes alternating with the sepals. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 331–2.] Sends specimens of plants.
Babington’s surprise at JDH’s advocacy of Darwinian views at Norwich [BAAS meeting].
Criticism of the behaviour of the trustees of the British Museum [in the Challenger affair].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A85, DAR 104: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10705 |
To J. D. Hooker [14 March 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [14 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1071 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 December 1876
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 427–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10710 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 December 1876
Summary
Complains at Albert Günther’s imputations against Charles Wyville Thomson [as a result of the dispute between Thomson and the British Museum, regarding the disposal of the specimens from the Challenger].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 71–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10715 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 December 1876
Summary
JDH has sent a short-styled Forsythia from Kew. CD surmises that all Forsythia at Kew may be short-styled, hence he is curious to know whether they set seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 429 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10721 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 December 1876
Summary
Notes variation in style and stamen length in Forsythia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B78a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10727 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 March 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1074 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 March 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1076 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1847]
Summary
JDH’s proposed India trip.
Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.
CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1077 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [July 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [July 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1080 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1877
Summary
JDH discusses his and others’ experiments on survival of seeds. Impressed with resistance of some seeds and rapid decomposition of others. He wonders about "vitality" in the abstract.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 74–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10802 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 January [1877]
Summary
CD notes growth of Royal Society may force it to hire officers.
Speculates on cold resistance of bacterial germs.
Will communicate to Royal Society Frank’s paper on the ingestion of solid particles by the protoplasmic protrusions of Dipsacus glands.
CD working on plant dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 430–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10814 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 January 1877
Summary
JDH recounts discussion at Royal Society over Günther’s paper on distribution and affinities of gigantic tortoises ["Description of the living and extinct races of gigantic land-tortoises, Parts III and IV", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 25 (1876–7): 506–7]. Huxley suggests they are Miocene relics.
Royal Society will publish Frank’s Dipsacus paper [but see 10971 and 11073].
Thiselton-Dyer will review Cross and self-fertilisation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 77–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10817 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 January 1877
Summary
CD thinks A. Günther’s tortoises are relics of closely allied forms, once widely distributed. Expressed this view to AG a few months ago. Cannot explain their restriction to volcanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 432–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10819 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 April 1847]
Summary
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Apr 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1082 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 1 May 1847]
Summary
[Extract of letter to WJH from T. E. Cantor] on zoological distribution in the Malay Peninsula.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 1 May 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1084 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1847]
Summary
Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.
Has acquired a new microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 May 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1085 |
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