From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1881
Summary
At 63 JDH still works hard to support his family. Many friends have died. Memories of times past spent with CD lift his pessimism.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13209 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 June [1881]
Summary
Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.
Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 June [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 516–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13211 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 August 1881
Summary
Outlines address to York BAAS meeting on history of geographical distribution. Organising theme: advancement in this science based on ideas enunciated by scientific voyagers. Asks CD’s advice.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 154–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13272 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 518–23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13277 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 August 1881
Summary
Working on York BAAS address; finds CD’s comments helpful. JDH writes detailed response and expansion.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 158–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13286 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.
Opinion of Humboldt.
Origin of higher phanerogams.
Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 524–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13288 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1881
Summary
Is making final preparations for his address [at York BAAS meeting] and questions CD on specific points.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13291 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 August 1881
Summary
No one could have thought about evolution and not about representative species; yet no one discussed it fully until Origin, including von Baer.
Did not know of Leopold von Buch’s Description physique des îles Canaries [1836] when Origin was published.
"As far as I know no one ever discussed the meaning of the relation between representative species before I did & as I suppose Wallace did in his paper before the Linn. Soc. [1858]."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 528–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13293 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 August 1881
Summary
Condolences on death of CD’s brother Erasmus. Recalls first meeting CD in Erasmus’ rooms over 40 years ago.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 166–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13302 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 530–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13304 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 and 4 September [1881]
Summary
Praises JDH’s York address.
S. B. J. Skertchly has paralleled Axel Blytt’s work in Cambridgeshire fens.
JDH too cautious on southern glacial period.
Is Kew interested in Azores plants collected by Arruda Furtado, a local inhabitant and an evolutionist?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 and 4 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 532–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13316 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1881
Summary
Comte de Paris requests an orchid from CD for his huge collection.
JDH responds to CD’s criticism of York address.
Arruda Furtado could work on mystery of buried cypress trunks in the Azores.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 168–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13320 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 September [1881]
Summary
Comte [de Paris] will have plants next summer.
Arruda Furtado will send his mountain plants from Azores.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Sept [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 536–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13342 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1850]
Summary
On Himalayan stratigraphy. Believes JDH’s observations of glacial action are the first ever done east of Urals.
Barnacles and the species theory; impressed with variation.
Effect of CD’s species sketch on JDH’s view of willow systematics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 June [1850] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1339 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 October 1881
Summary
Visiting his son Horace.
Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.
Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?
Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 538–41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13420 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 October 1881]
Summary
Pleasure in reading Earthworms.
Buying land to build a cottage.
Finishing palms for Genera plantarum after three years’ work.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 164–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13424 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 October 1881
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 170–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13435 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 October 1881
Summary
Profuse thanks for plants.
Specifies which euphorbs he wants. Euphorbs’ alternate rows of ammonium carbonate reactive/non-reactive cells are worth more study.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 542–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13442 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 November [1881]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Nov [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 544 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13492 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1881
Summary
Benjamin D. Jackson will edit new Steudel’s Nomenclator.
JDH’s impressions of Lyell’s Life and letters, edited by Mrs K. M. Lyell [1881].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13557 |
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