To J. D. Hooker 5 [March 1858]
Summary
C. C. Babington agrees with JDH that botanists tend to note varieties more in large genera than in very small ones.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2235 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [March 1858]
Summary
Heartened that tabulations of small and large genera done in different ways yield good results. JDH has done some tabulations but has not followed CD’s method of getting equal numbers of small and large genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 [Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2237 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1858]
Summary
JDH’s "objection" that small local genera do not vary and mundane ones do, is exactly CD’s point. Local floras useful to test idea that varieties are incipient species. Same genus in different countries cannot be lumped.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 228 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2239 |
From J. D. Hooker [14 March 1858]
Summary
Summary of JDH’s objections to CD’s survey of floras and conclusion that large genera vary more than small.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 182–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2240 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [March 1858]
Summary
Thanks JDH for his objections; will respond by sending fair copy of MS when written.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 [Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2242 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 March 1858
Summary
Continued objections to methods and conclusions of CD’s survey.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Mar 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 115e–f |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2243 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1858]
Summary
Writing section on large and small genera [for Natural selection, ch. 4].
Huxley supersedes Owen on parthenogenesis.
Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2248 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
