From J. D. Hooker 18 August 1866
Summary
Returns two volumes of Felix Holt [George Eliot (1866)]
and the Coddington [lens].
John Smith will send Drosera.
Nation reports that Louis Agassiz holds that the Amazon Valley was formed since the glacial epoch.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 104–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5192 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 August] 1866
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Aug] 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 98–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5199 |
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 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1866
Summary
Lyell has sent chapters [of 10th ed. of Principles] to JDH, who objects to CL’s ignoring the part vapour plays in affecting temperature of the globe.
Parliament will be asked to buy W. J. Hooker’s collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 108–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5247 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 November 1866
Summary
Left strict orders about Euryale seeds but "labour, difficulty and expense of getting anything done scientifically by practical men is untold".
The E. J. Eyre controversy [Jamaica uprising]. Odd that Huxley joins the "persecution fund". The principles involved are fiddlesticks.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 110–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5266 |
From J. D. Hooker [22 November 1866]
Summary
His views on the Eyre controversy.
Went to Shrewsbury (for sale of Susan’s effects), hoping to buy some Wedgwood medallions, but they had been bought.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Nov 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 112–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5283 |
From J. D. Hooker [December 1866?]
Summary
Asks CD to send W. R. Grove titles and place of publication of the Müller [Für Darwin (1864)] and Walsh (Walsh 1864–5) papers he referred to in his address [BAAS lecture at Nottingham, see 5135].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Dec 1866?] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5288 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1866
Summary
Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.
"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."
Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.
Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].
Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.
Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.
Balfour Stewart on sunspots.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 114–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5294 |
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 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 December 1866]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 129–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5328 |