From J. D. Hooker [22–30 January 1845]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22–30 Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 247–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-818 |
From J. D. Hooker [late February 1845]
Summary
Previous letter [missing] on Edinburgh position was ill-tempered. Friends assure him that he ought to be thankful for opportunity to try for professorship.
Reports meeting with Humboldt in Paris.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [late Feb 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 165–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-832 |
From J. D. Hooker [23] March 1845
Summary
JDH recommends Augustin de Saint-Hilaire’s Leçons de botanique [1841]. Relates opinions of European botanists on migration and plant distribution.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23] Mar 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 41–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-844 |
From J. D. Hooker [2–6 April 1845]
Summary
A Tasmanian Cyttaria is same species as CD’s Fuegian fungus. Did the species originate on the beeches of Fuegia or of Tasmania?
JDH gives interpretation of Vestiges.
John McCulloch, J. F. Schouw, and Lamarck on the species question.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2–6 Apr 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 219–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-850 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 April 1845]
Summary
First part of "Galapagos flora" ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] finished but not printed.
Details of distribution of Galapagos flora. Peculiarity of island floras.
Leaves for Edinburgh on Wednesday.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Apr 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-862 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 12 July 1845]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 12 July 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 43–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-883 |
From J. D. Hooker [mid-July 1845]
Summary
The translation of Humboldt’s Kosmos [Cosmos (1846–58)] is delayed.
Gives instances of peculiar genera with several good species in very small islands. Scarcity of insects on islands.
JDH cannot prove that there is much hybridising, but does not see why there should not be. "Bother variation, development & all such subjects, it is reasoning in a circle I believe after all."
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [mid-July 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 49–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-884 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1845
Summary
Raises some points for revision of CD’s Journal of researches.
Southern island floras. "The more I ponder upon Insular Floras the less inclined I am to admit the mutation of species to any very great amount."
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 51–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-887 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 September [1845]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept [1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 14–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-910 |
From J. D. Hooker [4–9 September 1845]
Summary
The most experienced botanists argue for the "validity of species in nature". Against taxonomic "splitters".
CD’s Cape Tres Montes plants.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4–9 Sept 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 208–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-914 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 September 1845
Summary
Thanks for Journal of researches.
Puzzled over pea flower from Cape Tres Montes.
Thinks species a fair and most profitable subject for discussion, but has no formed opinion of his own.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Sept 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 55–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-916 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 November 1845]
Summary
Answers CD’s queries arising from Flora Antarctica.
Would like CD to come to town and go over Galapagos plants with him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Nov 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-928 |