From J. D. Hooker 29 August 1881
Summary
Condolences on death of CD’s brother Erasmus. Recalls first meeting CD in Erasmus’ rooms over 40 years ago.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 166–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13302 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1881
Summary
Comte de Paris requests an orchid from CD for his huge collection.
JDH responds to CD’s criticism of York address.
Arruda Furtado could work on mystery of buried cypress trunks in the Azores.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 168–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13320 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 October 1881]
Summary
Pleasure in reading Earthworms.
Buying land to build a cottage.
Finishing palms for Genera plantarum after three years’ work.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 164–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13424 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 October 1881
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 170–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13435 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1881
Summary
Benjamin D. Jackson will edit new Steudel’s Nomenclator.
JDH’s impressions of Lyell’s Life and letters, edited by Mrs K. M. Lyell [1881].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13557 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for his endowment of new Steudel’s Nomenclator [later to become Index Kewensis].
K. White’s gruesome ballad "Gondoline" frightened JDH as a child.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 172 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13577 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1882
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13613 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 January 1882
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 176–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13625 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1850
Summary
Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Geology of Khashia [Khasi] mountains. Speculations on mountain building and origin of Himalayas.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1850 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 314–15 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1371 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. April 1851]
Summary
Wants catalogue of small islands that contain peculiar plants. Thinks complete floras of islands in various stages of depression [subsidence] would provide good data.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1382 |
From J. D. Hooker [late August – early September 1851]
Summary
James Wilson reports case of salmon hybrids.
Herrings inhabit freshwater lake in Scotland during winter.
JDH will edit juror reports for the Great Exhibition.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [late Aug – early Sept 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1440 |
From J. D. Hooker [November 1851]
Summary
Flora of New Zealand.
Reconsidering variability of insular species.
Becoming convinced of the probability that the southern flora is a fragmentary one – all that remains of a great southern continent.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 82–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1460 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 November 1853]
Summary
Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.
Honoured for Coral reefs
and Cirripedia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Nov 1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1539 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 11 December 1854]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 391 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1546 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1854]
Summary
Is relieved his book [Himalayan journals] has been well received and glad he has successfully completed it.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 86–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1557 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 25 March 1854]
Summary
JDH summarises letter from Humboldt.
JDH answers CD’s questions on glacial action in Himalayas.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 25 Mar 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 382 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1559 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 June 1854]
Summary
Birth of JDH’s second child.
Asks CD’s view of "highness" and "lowness" in animals. Gives his own for plants; extent of deviation from type, e.g., floral parts deviating from leaf.
Reading B. C. Brodie’s Psychological inquiries [1854].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 June 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 202–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1572 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 June 1854]
Summary
JDH on "highness" of Coniferae: they are genuine Dicotyledons, not a link to cryptogams; that is a geologists’ fallacy. Thus they are highest plants in Carboniferous.
Does not agree with CD’s "elastic" species theory. Long correspondence with Lyell on this.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 June 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 383 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1576 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 August 1854
Summary
JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.
Insects found in coal.
Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.
JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Aug 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1581 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 November 1854]
Summary
Fossil leaves from Disko Island.
JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.
Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.
Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Nov 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 385 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1600 |
Hooker, J. D. | (520) |
Darwin, C. R. | (520) |
Hooker, J. D. | (520) |
1843 | (2) |
1844 | (11) |
1845 | (12) |
1846 | (8) |
1847 | (4) |
1848 | (3) |
1849 | (4) |
1850 | (2) |
1851 | (3) |
1853 | (1) |
1854 | (10) |
1855 | (4) |
1856 | (9) |
1857 | (5) |
1858 | (11) |
1859 | (6) |
1860 | (8) |
1861 | (3) |
1862 | (44) |
1863 | (32) |
1864 | (38) |
1865 | (22) |
1866 | (34) |
1867 | (25) |
1868 | (26) |
1869 | (15) |
1870 | (8) |
1871 | (15) |
1872 | (15) |
1873 | (26) |
1874 | (25) |
1875 | (23) |
1876 | (15) |
1877 | (13) |
1878 | (12) |
1879 | (6) |
1880 | (5) |
1881 | (12) |
1882 | (3) |