To J. D. Hooker [7 January 1845]
Summary
Sends specimens of a Tertiary sandstone from Tierra del Fuego in which there are leaves; CD thought they were beech. What is JDH’s opinion?
Asks whether JDH can make sense of a note on silicified wood.
Has read Vestiges [of creation (1844)]; "his geology strikes me as bad, & his zoology far worse".
Would like to see lists [of plants] from Society and Sandwich Islands.
Doubts JDH’s information regarding imagination of mother affecting offspring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [7 Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-814 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [January 1845]
Summary
Would like copy of "Galapagos flora" when published ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233].
Will keep JDH’s Pacific island notes till his return.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-817 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 February 1845]
Summary
Congratulates JDH and condoles with him on possible position at Edinburgh. Although CD will miss him bitterly, he encourages JDH to view it as a good opportunity.
Sorry to hear that Humboldt is failing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10 Feb 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-826 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 March [1845]
Summary
Would like to borrow the pamphlet on variation [Frédéric Gérard, "De l’espèce dans les corps organisés" (1844), extract from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, ed. C. D. d’Orbigny].
Glad to hear Humboldt’s views on migration. CD believes we cannot "put any limit to the possible and even probable migration of plants".
Wants good book on plant morphology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Mar [1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-842 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [26 March 1845]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [26 Mar 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-846 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1845]
Summary
Hopes JDH will enjoy Edinburgh.
Has just finished Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on animal monsters [Anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux (1832–7)], "and a nasty curious subject it is".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Mar [1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-847 |
To J. D. Hooker [16 April 1845]
Summary
Thanks for information about books.
Murray is publishing CD’s Journal of researches. Would be grateful for a sentence on Galapagos plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [16 Apr 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-849 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [April 1845?]
Summary
Apologises that the house is full this weekend, but next weekend would be good.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 [Apr 1845?] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 312) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-857G |
To J. D. Hooker [28 April 1845]
Summary
Returns specimens and drawings of Confervae with many thanks. Would appreciate any corrections for second edition of Journal of researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Apr 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-861 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [May 1845]
Summary
Returns notes on Confervae.
Has had information from Ehrenberg on organic forms in Atlantic dust.
Thanks for sketch of Galapagos flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [May 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-863 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1845]
Summary
JDH’s books have arrived safely.
Is sending him corrected MS of first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.].
Lyells have just visited.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-864 |
To J. D. Hooker [27 June 1845]
Summary
Busy correcting proofs. Thanks for JDH’s remarks; asks him to send any other corrections soon; goes to press with second part of Journal of researches in less than a week.
Urges collections of all kinds on any isolated islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 June 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-880 |
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 |
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