To J. D. Hooker 21 February [1870]
Summary
Has read the notes on Rond [Round] Island which he owes to JDH. What an enigma its flora and fauna present, especially the problem of monocotyledons! Asks JDH’s opinion.
A new book on St Helena confirms CD’s observations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Feb [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 164–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7115 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 March [1870]
Summary
Would like to see JDH become Sir J. H. Does not think JDH owes his position in science to his father.
Sends questions on Round Island – if JDH should write [to Henry Barkly?].
Has he read Federico Delpino on Marantaceae [Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 1 (1869): 293–206]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Mar [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 167–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7128 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 May [1870]
Summary
Concern about futures of Willy [Hooker] and Horace [Darwin].
Henrietta [Darwin] back from Cannes.
CD has been to Cambridge to visit Frank [Darwin]. Saw Sedgwick, who took him to the [Geological] Museum and utterly exhausted him. Humiliating to be "killed by a man of 86".
Saw Alfred Newton.
CD has been working away on man, to much greater length (as usual) than expected,
and on cross- and self-fertilisation.
Does JDH happen to have seeds of Canna warszewiczii matured in some hot country?
Sympathises with JDH on Dawson’s paper – amusing that Dawson hashes up E. D. Cope’s and L. Agassiz’s views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 May [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 169–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7200 |
To J. D. Hooker [13 June 1870?]
Summary
Orders seeds, ripened in Algiers; imported seed would be of no use. [Forwarded to Algiers by JDH, see 7272.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 June 1870?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7210 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 [June 1870]
Summary
Returns H. C. Watson’s letter.
CD must study JDH’s manner of arrangement of varieties and subspecies, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 [June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7214 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1870]
Summary
Asks whether JDH can send seeds of Hibiscus africanus and of Nolana prostrata raised at Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7251 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks JDH for offer of lilies.
The paper on orchids is by Hermann Müller [Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande & Westphalens 25 (1868): 1–62], on Platanthera and Epipactis.
Cites another work by P. Rohrbach [Über den Blüthenbau (1866)].
MS [of Descent] ready for printer.
Has read Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1870): lxxiv–xciv] with great interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 175–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7261 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 July [1870]
Summary
Thinks well of Claparède’s criticism; worth publishing as an answer to Wallace. Bates thinks Wallace’s heterodox views have done mischief to the cause of evolution. Wallace thinks Claparède’s article very weak, CD concludes, because Claparède has arrived at an unpleasant judgment very much like Lyell’s about Bentham’s address.
CD would wager Lyell lately has said something about European Proteaceae.
Does not remember anyone before Wallace on Sumatra and Java.
CD does not think he has a chance against Brandt in French Academy election.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7271 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1870]
Summary
Has not heard of Curtis on Dionaea.
Duke of Argyll is clever, but it is a sin to speak of a real old Duke as a "little beggar".
"My theology is a simple muddle: I cannot look at the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent Design."
On spontaneous generation and Bastian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 179–180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7273 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 September 1870
Summary
Discusses germination of charlock after a long interval.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Sept 1870 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 307) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7321F |
To J. D. Hooker 27 September [1870]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s report of Liverpool meeting.
Huxley’s address.
Sir Roderick [Murchison]’s "apotheosis".
Tyndall’s lecture is "grand" except for egotistical beginning. Some Frenchmen have pitched into CD for using the "as if" reasoning, which Tyndall shows is justified.
Has just read George Rolleston’s address in Nature.
Anton Dohrn says German public have high opinion of Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Sept [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 181–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7328 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 October [1870]
Summary
Does not think so poorly of Nature as JDH does, by any means; fears Popular Science Review is rather ephemeral but more durable than Nature.
The case of the charlock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Oct [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 184–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7344 |