From J. D. Hooker 13 August 1869
Summary
Did not intend to imply that Hallett said variation stopped, but that it arrives at a point where further accumulation in direction sought is so slow as to result practically in fixity of type – but not absolute fixity.
Duke of Argyll has requested JDH to superintend publication of a flora of India. JDH thinks he [Argyll] is paying him off for his kick at natural theology.
Willy [Hooker] returning from New Zealand.
A unique character in Drosophyllum.
Sees no reason for CD to contribute to Ross and Faraday memorials.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 27–9, DAR 100: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6862 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 August [1869]
Summary
Faraday memorial is an exception.
George [Darwin] has convinced CD that North British Review article is by P. G. Tait [see 6841].
Surprised that leaves of Drosophyllum are always rolled backwards at their tips, but did not know it was unique character.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 149-50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6863 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1869
Summary
Reports on events at Exeter [BAAS] meeting. G. G. Stokes made a first-rate President.
Huxley "poured boiling oil" over James McCann in answer to his "conceited dogmatic sermon".
F. A. W. Miquel is coming to stay.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 30–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6879 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 September [1869]
Summary
F. C. Donders has been to lunch – a good "Darwinian"!
JDH’s speech of resignation [as BAAS President] at Exeter was charming [Rep. BAAS (1869)]. JDH should have been an ambassador.
Has received Indian census.
Is unusually well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 151–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6886 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 September 1869
Summary
Will come to Down on 25 Sept.
Thanks CD for supplementaries ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56] which he will quote in the British flora [The student’s flora of the British Islands (1870)].
F. A. W. Miquel could not come.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 32–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6895 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [September 1869]
Summary
Asks JDH to consult colleagues learned in physiology for answer to query: when a large piece of bark is removed from a tree, does the bark ever regrow in isolated points [separate] from the growing margin of the surrounding bark? Query bears on Pangenesis and on power of repair in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Sept 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 153–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6896 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 September 1869
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6908 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 October [1869]
Summary
Sends letter from Candolle [6915] proposing an experiment with seeds that seems excellent. CD has little time and strength but will do his best. If the staff at Kew could do it, it would be wisest to hand the whole lot over to JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6923 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 October 1869
Summary
Is glad that JDH is willing to try Candolle’s experiment [see 6915]. Encloses all the seeds except a few taken from the Moscow and Palermo packets.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6932 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 November [1869]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on his becoming a C.B.
Hard at work on sexual selection – weary of everlasting males and females, cocks and hens.
Has read J. H. Stirling vs Huxley on protoplasm [As regards protoplasm (1869)]
and E. B. Tylor on survival of old thoughts in modern civilisation.
Bentham’s Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [see 6793] is worth its weight in gold in making converts. C. J. F. Bunbury is impressed by it.
Likes JDH’s review of K. F. Schimper’s work [Paléontologie végétale, in Nature 1 (1869): 48].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 156–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6985 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1869
Summary
Describes how the offer of C.B. was made. He declined a knighthood. Murchison and Lyell are trying to get him made Knight Commander of the Star of India, but he does not think there is a chance. The Duke [of Argyll?] might do it, but does not like JDH’s Darwinism.
Next Presidency of Royal Society discussed: all (Brodie, the X Club botanists, et al.) are agreed on Lyell.
Everyone is disappointed with Nature.
What did CD think of "Huxley’s rhapsody on Goethe’s ditto" [Nature 1 (1869): 9–11]?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 35—8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6988 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 November [1869]
Summary
Glad to know about C.B.
Thinks better of Nature than JDH does.
Likes Academy.
Is reading Anton Kerner on Tubocytisus [in Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzen von Klima und Boden (1869)].
The genealogical tree reveals the very steps of the formation of the species.
Mlle Royer has brought out a third edition of her translation of the Origin without informing CD, so corrections to fourth and fifth English editions are lost. Has arranged for a new translator of the fifth English edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 159–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6997 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 November 1869
Summary
Has corresponded with Macmillan about Nature.
Will get the Kerner book.
Mere guesses must determine which form to fix on as the type.
Raises questions about the genealogical tree.
Serves Mlle Royer right.
Lyell declines Royal Society Presidency; now look to W. R. Grove. Long postscript on JDH’s views about knighthood.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 39–41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7002 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 November [1869]
Summary
Sends title of Kerner’s book [see 6997] and comments that AK does not give the one parent form of the genus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7006 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 29 March 1869
Summary
Pleased to come on 17th.
Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.
Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.
Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].
Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6685 |
DCP-LETT-6955F
Summary
"Darwin is a wise man."
Is sending Passifloras.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 23 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 56b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6955F |
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