From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1877
Summary
JDH has just returned from U. S., where he worked on N. American geographical distribution with Asa Gray.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11190 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 20 February 1878]
Summary
Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 20 Feb 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.4: 432 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11220 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1877
Summary
Sent rare cycad seeds for CD’s cotyledon study.
Welwitschia seed germinated at Kew had ordinary cotyledons. JDH thinks mature Welwitschia leaves are original cotyledons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11227 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 November 1877
Summary
JDH cannot attend at the bestowal of CD’s honorary doctorate at Cambridge.
O. C. Marsh is rash to suggest all vertebrate types originated in America.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11234 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 January 1878
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11323 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 February 1878
Summary
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11356 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 March 1878
Summary
Supports Torbitt. Keenly aware of danger of growing crops from a single variety. Torbitt’s paper to Belfast BAAS meeting ["On the potato-disease", Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 134] was sat upon.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 103–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11391 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 March 1878
Summary
Has written to Farrer in support of Torbitt’s grant.
Resistance of Liberian coffee to "fly" and susceptibility to fungus.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 105–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11417 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 March 1878
Summary
Has been consulting with Mrs Lyell about the possibility of publishing Lyell’s letters. Asks CD’s opinion on the matter.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 107–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11431 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 June 1878
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 109–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11547 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 February – 16 [March] 1848
Summary
Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.
Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.
Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.
Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.
Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.
Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.
Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.
CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.
Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb – 16 [Mar] 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 52–4 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1158 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1878
Summary
JDH details the subscription fund’s finances.
Has finished lecture for Royal Society on N. American plant distribution.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 111–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11583 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 July 1878
Summary
Burdened with Anniversary Address to the Royal Society.
Quips that even Huxley is running out of speeches.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11636 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 October 1878
Summary
Frank asked to summarise work with CD for use in JDH’s Royal Society address.
Work with A. Gray shows Colorado plants closer to Altai than to E. or W. America.
Work with J. Ball shows Moroccan plants very distinct from nearby Canaries.
JDH on Royal Commission to Paris Exhibition.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 115–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11714 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 October 1878
Summary
Botanical evidence is against F. B. White’s origin of St Helena fauna. JDH holds flora is S. African. Since plants must arrive before insects, if fauna is Palearctic then flora survived glacial period. Flora not Miocene since old and relic orders are absent. Suggests S. African west coastal mountains as insects’ origin.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 118–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11718 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 December 1878
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.
Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.
Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 121–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11795 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 July [1848]
Summary
Brian Hodgson reading CD’s Journal of researches with delight.
Forwarding breeding pamphlets.
JDH recommends P. S. Pallas on degeneration.
CD’s facts on sex in barnacles startling.
Hugh Falconer’s health.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July [1848] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 94 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1193 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 March 1879
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 125–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11938 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1848
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.
Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.
Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.
No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.
Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1203 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 July 1879
Summary
JDH criticises John Ball’s theory of origin of higher plants in Carboniferous highlands, where low carbon dioxide levels permitted survival.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 128–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12173 |
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