From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1865]
Summary
Kew affairs.
H. J. Carter’s observations are wonderful but want verification.
Skeptical of H. H. Travers’ observations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Nov 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 43–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
From J. D. Hooker [8–18 January 1865]
Summary
Bentham wants "Climbing plants" for Journal of the Linnean Society, however long [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 1–118]. Publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society restricts correspondence.
Reader much improved.
Tyndall did write piece on spiritualism ["Science and the spirits", Reader 4 (1864): 725–6].
"Suppressed gout" annoys him as a term cloaking ignorance.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8–18 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4743 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 January 1865]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4749 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 January 1865]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4754 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1865
Summary
Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.
CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765 |
From J. D. Hooker [17 February 1865]
Summary
Why botanists will not subscribe to Falconer’s bust with enthusiasm.
Scott has been offered curatorship at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Feb 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4773 |
From J. D. Hooker [27 February 1865?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Feb 1865?] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4777 |
From J. D. Hooker [10 March 1865]
Summary
Thomas Thomson has gone over Scott’s paper; encloses his conclusions. Not fit for publication in present form. His experiments should have been repeated to resolve his disagreement with Gärtner.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4782 |
From J. D. Hooker [7–8 April 1865]
Summary
Reforms at Kew.
X Club Dinner. H. B. Wilson and J. W. Colenso as guests.
Troubled by Lubbock’s going into Parliament – loss to science.
Has written to Busk.
Sending Botanische Zeitung.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7–8 Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4807 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 April [1865]
Summary
W. J. Hooker is unwell.
Bentham wrote on Planchon ["The ancient and modern floras of Montpellier", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 202–25],
T. Thomson on subspecies ["Species and subspecies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 226–42]
and Greene of York on ["The Linnean Society’s transactions", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 189–202].
JDH did the leader in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1865): 267–8, 291–2].
Delighted with CD’s calm opinion of Origin. Has same view of some of his own papers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4812 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 April 1865]
Summary
Pleased at CD’s opinion of Thomson’s article.
Non-reading is great fault of the best school of English scientific men.
Opposed to Lubbock’s going into Parliament.
W. J. Burchell’s collections are coming to Kew.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4816 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865]
Summary
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4836 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 June 1865]
Summary
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4855 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 17 June 1865]
Summary
Recommends J. W. Kayes’ book [History of the Sepoy War, vol. 1 (1864)].
Wife improving.
Glad CD liked Huxley’s letter.
Not an admirer of Kingsley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4859 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 September 1865]
Summary
On his reading: George Eliot,
T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.
Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.
His grief over loss of father and child.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Sept 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 34–6a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4899 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |