From J. D. Hooker [after 12 July 1845]
Summary
Answers CD’s questions relating to the flora of the Galapagos. [See 889.]
| 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 |
To J. D. Hooker [11–12 July 1845]
Summary
A son [George Howard Darwin] was born on Wednesday.
Sends queries on Galapagos flora.
Discusses JDH’s comments on [Journal of researches].
CD feels that with his views on descent "really Nat. Hist. becomes a sublimely grand result-giving subject".
"How differently people view the same subject, for I look at insular Floras … as leading to an opposite view to yours."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [11–12 July 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 36, 100: 43–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-889 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 July – 19 August 1845]
Summary
Thanks for facts on solitary islands having several species of peculiar genera; "it knocks on the head some analogies of mine".
Has long been trying to discover in how many flowers crossing is probable, but finds it difficult to show "even a vague probability of this".
Will JDH proof-read Galapagos chapter of Journal of researches?
Gives information on his Galapagos collection; explains why it differs from others.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22 July – 19 Aug 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-892 |
| letter | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
