To J. D. Hooker 16 January [1862]
Summary
Entire family down with influenza. Has done nothing for three weeks.
Asks for Haast reference on New Zealand glacial deposits.
CD’s view of the North since Trent case. Can no longer write with sympathy to Asa Gray.
Encourages JDH about his son, Willy.
Problem of relation of colour to external conditions. Hopes JDH will undertake the investigation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3391 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [and 26] January [1862]
Summary
His answer to Asa Gray.
On JDH’s view of aristocracy. Primogeniture is dreadfully opposed to selection.
Orchid book proofs ready soon – has no idea whether it is worth publishing.
Huxley on Owen.
Feeble letter from J. H. Balfour against Huxley’s lectures ["Relation of man to lower animals", pt 2 of Man’s place in nature (1863)].
Has received the "astounding" Angraecum sesquipedale with nectary 1ft long: "what insect could suck it?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 [and 26] Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3411 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1862]
Summary
Is JDH sure it is a Bletia, just received? Its pollen very different from any Epidendreæ he has seen. If it is Bletia, Lindley’s grand divisions are fanciful.
Accepts JDH’s offer to collect cases of dimorphism.
James Bateman has sent a lot of orchids with Angraecum sesquipedale. What a proboscis the moth that sucks its 11½ inch nectary must have!
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3421 |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
