From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1864
Summary
Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.
Will CD sit for Woolner?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 234–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4600 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 September 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 240–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4616 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 May 1864
Summary
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 218–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4494 |
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- … hearing of your continued betterness. The Lyells spent an evening with us last week, both …
To J. D. Hooker 22 October [1864]
Summary
To Lyell’s chagrin, CD has come round again to A. C. Ramsay’s glacial theory.
On primrose and cowslip, CD maintains they are good species, notwithstanding Scott’s work.
CD defines species by power of remaining constant for a good long time and showing appreciable amount of difference from close species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4642 |
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- … from whom I shall doubtless hear. — The Lyells have been here & were extremely pleasant, …
To J. D. Hooker 23 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased with news of BAAS meeting
and Scott’s possible position as Thomas Anderson’s curator.
Suggests Wallace is due for a Royal Medal.
Agrees with JDH’s criticism of Lyell’s address [see 4614].
Bentham’s Linnean Society address treats continuity of life in a vague non-natural sense.
Rereading his old MS [Natural selection] CD is impressed with work he had already done.
Writing Variation much harder than Climbing plants.
Encloses request to JDH to propose, or suggest on his behalf, that the Ray Society publish a translation of C. F. von Gärtner’s Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 14; DAR 115: 250a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4621 |
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- … on Wallace. — I am glad to hear that the Lyells are so well pleased; I think I quite agree …
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
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- … it were translated. I have just finished Lyells address, the commencement is good, the …
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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] ): Lyells corrected pages came when I was …
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Darwin’s reading notebooks
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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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- … sur les Glaciers [Agassiz 1840] —— 30 th Lyells Principles. 3. Vol. 6 th Edit [Lyell …
- … ] all——3 vols.——well abstracted 22 d Lyells Elem. 2 d Edit. [Lyell 1841] d[itt]o.— …
- … 1841–54]. slightly skimmed Miserable Aug. 5 th Lyells Travels in N. America [Lyell 1845] …
- … Tribe &c by George Vasey. 1851 [Vasey 1851]. May 28. Lyells Elements 5 th . Edit [Lyell …
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Visiting the Darwins
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'As for Mr Darwin, he is entirely fascinating…' In October 1868 Jane Gray and her husband spent several days as guests of the Darwins, and Jane wrote a charming account of the visit in a sixteen-page letter to her sister. She described Charles…
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- … on Saturday— I have appointed next Monday to call on the Lyells; & mean to try & persuade Dr …