To J. D. Hooker [5 February 1846]
Summary
Will come to visit Kew if Claude Gay speaks English. Otherwise would prefer to wait until spring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-948 |
To J. D. Hooker [8? February 1846]
Summary
Will visit JDH in spring.
Will JDH ask Gay what birds, reptiles, or mammifers inhabit Juan Fernández [Island]?
Has JDH seen William Herbert’s paper ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8? Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-950 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 February 1846]
Summary
Thinks JDH’s explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands is probably correct.
Proposes experimental test to see whether alpine form of a plant is inherited like a true variety.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-951 |
To J. D. Hooker [15 February 1846]
Summary
Has had to make a Post Office order to JDH payable at Charing Cross instead of Kew.
Does Sir William [Hooker] know the Dean of Manchester’s London address?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [15 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 54c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-953 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 February 1846]
Summary
Glad to hear of JDH’s botanical appointment [with Geological Survey].
Edward Forbes has written about his subsidence doctrine; CD objects to its hypothetical base.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-955 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 February – 2 March 1846]
Summary
Sends enclosure for JDH to read [letter from E. Forbes, 956]. "I cannot see my way about his post-miocene land."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Feb – 2 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 56c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-957 |