To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1855]
Summary
Asks JDH not to send H. C. Watson’s paper on Azores plants [Hooker’s Lond. J. Bot. 2 (1843): 1–9, 125–31, 394–408; 3 (1844): 582–617; 6 (1847): 380–97].
CD cannot endure trying all the Azorean seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1692 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1855]
Summary
Seeds: worried they will turn into another barnacle job.
Studies plants colonising abandoned field.
Experiment on plant sleep movements.
CD objects to "Atlantis" because no evidence; does not affect species theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1693 |
From J. D. Hooker [6–9 June 1855]
Summary
Finds Forbes’s continental theories, migration, and double creation are all unsatisfactory explanations of geographical distribution of plants.
Is currently working on problems of sea transport of plant species.
European plants on Australian Alps only explicable by double creations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6–9 June 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 90–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1694 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1855]
Summary
Detailed response to JDH’s critique of sea transport and continental connection theories. JDH’s claim that low plants are widely distributed fits both theories.
Species theory does not touch origin of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1696 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [June 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1700 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [June 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1702 |
letter | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. |