To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1856]
Summary
Will send MS on one point of geographical distribution. It is "of infinite importance" that JDH see it, for CD has never felt such difficulty in deciding what to do.
Wants capsules of aquatic plants, to float in sea-water.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1963 |
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- … answered in every way. I wrote to you at Vienna. With kindest remembrances to M rs Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker [23 August 1864]
Summary
First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.
Nepenthes is a true climber.
Scott has visited Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4597 |
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- … und Biologie der Familie der Orchideen. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. ‘Climbing plants’: On …
To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1864]
Summary
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 242a, 242c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4576 |
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- … und Biologie der Familie der Orchideen. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. ‘Climbing plants’: On …
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1863]
Summary
Herbert Spencer’s work disappointing – "all words & generalities".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [June 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4218 |
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- … und Biologie der Familie der Orchideen. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. Bentham, George. …
To J. D. Hooker [24 July 1864?]
Summary
Notes and queries on climbing plants for JDH [? given to him by CD at their meeting of 24 July 1864].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [24 July 1864?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 242b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4573 |
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- … und Biologie der Familie der Orchideen. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. ‘Climbing plants’: On …
To J. D. Hooker 8 [February 1847]
Summary
Cirripede observations.
Would like to hear what JDH has to say about his species sketch.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [Feb 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1058 |
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- … rerum naturalium Vindobonae servantur. Vienna. Foundations : The foundations of the Origin …
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1844]
Summary
Advice to JDH on problems of printing and publishing.
Remarks on differences of species between islets of Galapagos group.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-740 |
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- … rerum naturalium Vindobonae servantur. Vienna. Foundations : The foundations of the Origin …
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1856]
Summary
Whether or not there should be movement of particles according to Tyndall’s theory of glacial action ["Observations on glaciers", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 2: 54–8, 441–3].
CD subscribes to H. C. Sorby’s view of gneiss [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
Seed-salting.
Pigeons.
Significant differences in skeletons of domesticated rabbits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1950 |
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- … varieties. — I most earnestly hope that at Vienna you will make particular enquiries about …
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| Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Vienna, Austria
Summary
Expedition to Eastern Asia
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- … A copy of Darwin's queries on expression has been provided to an expedition to China, Japan, and …
People featured in the German and Austrian photograph album
Summary
Biographical details of people from the Habsburg Empire that appeared in the album of German and Austrian scientists sent to Darwin on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Johannes Mattes for providing these details and for permission to make his…
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- … officer in the Finanz-Landesdirektion in Vienna; Oberfinanzrat (1892); Hofrat and …
- … Bartsch became member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, served there as librarian (1874 …
- … served as librarian of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna and later became a board member of …
- … He studied jurisprudence (Dr.) and worked as a lawyer in Vienna. Additionally, Berggruen became a …
- … graphischen Künste”. He co-founded the Scientific Club in Vienna (1876) and moved from Vienna to …
- … became director of the Imperial Telegraph Office (1857) in Vienna and high official ( …
- … major in the Mexican Army. In 1867, Equevilley went back to Vienna, where he lived as an independent …
- … 1876, Gagern served as secretary of the Scientific Club in Vienna. U. Jütte: Carlos de …
- … at the Imperial Geological Survey (1864–67) in Vienna. Afterwards, Groeger traveled to South Africa …
- … became a member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, collected algae (particularly …
- … assigned to the uniform depot in the casern Arsenal in Vienna. There, Hausner became member of …
- … of the uniform depot in Brno (ca. 1881) and moved back to Vienna after retirement. J. …
- … serving as a volunteer in the Imperial Natural Cabinet in Vienna, Heller obtained a position as …
- … natural history in the Theresianische Akademie in Vienna and published the books “Darwin und der …
- … After studying jurisprudence at the University of Vienna (1863–68) and working for the Ministry of …
- … Carnuntum (1884) and the Scientific Club (1876) in Vienna. Doblhoff-Dier J. v.: Doblhoff …
- … and cooperated with the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Keller undertook long collecting journeys …
- … as board member of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna for 25 years. F. Spaeth: …
- … as the assistant of Ludwig Schmarda at the University of Vienna and finally got a position at the …
- … vice-president (1896) of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna, extraordinary professor at the …
- … 1854–1925 Geographer As the son of Vienna’s chief constable, he studied geography at …
- … and vice-president of the Geographical Society in Vienna. N.N.: Sektionschef Le Monnier. In …
- … scholar Student of philosophy at the University of Vienna during the 1870s, co-founder and …
- … science. In later years, Nußbaumer became board member of Vienna's society for women’s rights …
- … 1837, he became Amanuensis of the Imperial Library in Vienna and four years later archivist in …
- … of grammar and writing at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna (1847), editor-in-chief of the …
- … the Education of Blind ( Blinden-Erziehungsinstitut ) in Vienna. A. Melhuber: Pablasek, …
- … natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Vienna, he became teacher at different Ober …
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … (8) Anthropological Society, Vienna (1) …
4.45 'Puck' cartoon 2
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< Back to Introduction In Reason Against Unreason, a cartoon published shortly before Darwin’s death, the American humorous magazine Puck had celebrated him as the embodiment of ‘Reason’. Now, a month after his death, an imaginative drawing in the…
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- … and also contributed to satirical and political magazines in Vienna. physical …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … good Endlicher has pub. in 1 st vol of Annals of Vienna [Endlicher 1836]. sketch of S. sea …
- … Home Library L d Ellsmere Siege of Vienna [Schimmer 1847] …
- … 2 d . vol very good —— L. Ellsmere Siege of Vienna [Schimmer 1847].— good Sept 12 …
- … 1852] 85 Read F. Unger. Versuch einer Gesichte Vienna 1852 [Unger 1852]. 86 p.p. 364. 8 …
- … 4v. Schimmer, Karl August. 1847. The sieges of Vienna by the Turks . Translated from …
- … 1852. Versuch einer Geschichte der Pflanzenwelt . Vienna. [Darwin Library.] *128: 182 …
- … Die Naturgeschichte der nutzbaren Haussäugethiere . Vienna. [Darwin Library.] 128: 16 …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … 20 Oct 1868 Ministry of Commerce, Vienna, Austria will …
Movement in Plants
Summary
The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … The power of movement in plants , published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical …
