To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1867]
Summary
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5361 |
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- … community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now …
- … that most of the genera confined to the Atlantic I.s, I do not say the species, originally …
- … community of peculiar genera in the several Atlantic I’s. About the Salvages is capital; I …
- … wrote, ‘I suppose you look at whole Atlantic [’Flora‘ del ] genera as having been common …
- … is’d from continents’. Hooker wrote that the Salvages, a group of rocky Atlantic islets, …
- … supported an Atlantic flora intermediate between that of Madeira and the Canaries, and …
- … botanical and geographical position in the Atlantic Ocean, ‘more or less closely linking …
To J. D. Hooker [May 1845]
Summary
Returns notes on Confervae.
Has had information from Ehrenberg on organic forms in Atlantic dust.
Thanks for sketch of Galapagos flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [May 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-863 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 December [1860]
Summary
On JDH’s suggestions for new edition of Origin.
Gray’s Atlantic Monthly articles to be published [in England] as a pamphlet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 80, 78E |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3019 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 October [1878]
Summary
Before JDH discusses flora of Canary Islands CD suggests he read F. B. White’s paper [see 11707], which explains stocking of Atlantic island fauna as due to changed currents during [last, or Miocene] northern glacial period.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Oct [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 475–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11715 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 and 4 August [1866]
Summary
Answers JDH’s questions on connection of SE. England and continent,
on the effect of breaking the Isthmus of Panama,
and on Madeira flora as remnant of Tertiary flora.
Cautionary remarks for JDH on his "Insular floras" speech, designed to strengthen case of "occasional migration" theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 and 4 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 295, 295b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5174 |
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- … CD’s enquiry about sea currents to the Atlantic islands, and the response, have not been …
- … dust from Africa fell on vessels in the Atlantic ocean ( Journal of researches , p. 4). …
- … which often falls on vessels in the Atlantic Ocean’, read on 4 June 1845 at the Geological …
- … that dust is blown 1000 miles over the Atlantic. Now bearing all this in mind, w d it not …
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 July 1863 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
To J. D. Hooker 18 November [1856]
Summary
CD encloses letter from Asa Gray, although it is critical of JDH.
Role of struggle in forming species in retreat from advancing glaciers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1991 |
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- … 400 or 500 miles. — Adios | C. Darwin Owls & Hawks have often been seen in mid Atlantic. …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [January 1845]
Summary
Would like copy of "Galapagos flora" when published ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233].
Will keep JDH’s Pacific island notes till his return.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-817 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 August [1866]
Summary
CD defends his view of land birds on St Helena.
Explains why he would not expect American plants on the Azores.
It makes him miserable that he and JDH look at everything so differently.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 296 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5181 |
To J. D. Hooker 17–18 [June 1856]
Summary
Comments on Huxley–Falconer dispute [see "On the method of palaeontology", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 18 (1856): 43–54].
Wollaston’s On the variation of species [1856].
Has exploded to Lyell against the extension of continents.
Plants common to Europe and NW. America as result of temperate climate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17–18 [June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1904 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 May [1866]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s list – very good, but Orchids and Primula paper have too indirect a bearing to be worth mentioning. The Eozoon is a very important fact and to a much lesser degree the Archaeopteryx. Müller’s Für Darwin [1864] perhaps the most important contribution.
CD has forgotten to mention Bates on variation and JDH’s Arctic paper ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348] in new edition of Origin.
Now finds that Owen claims to be originator of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 290 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5106 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1866]
Summary
Has finished Variation. May insert a chapter on man.
Still puzzled by seeds of Adenanthera.
New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued.
Fritz Müller found six genera of dimorphic plants in one day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 309, 309b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5321 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 December [1860]
Summary
Analysing results of last spring’s Primula experiments, CD infers pollen of short-styled plants "suits" long-styled plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3024 |
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- … Charles Wallich’s findings from the North Atlantic telegraph survey. CD’s name does not …
To J. D. Hooker 25 November [1867]
Summary
Woolner’s bust.
Smith’s health.
St Helena Umbelliferae.
Brambles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Nov [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 37–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5696 |
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- … Bermudas and various other islands of the Atlantic and southern oceans. 2 vols. Part of …
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1861]
Summary
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3352 |
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- … rather than by assuming a hypothetical Atlantic communication between Europe and America. …
To J. D. Hooker 19 [July 1860]
Summary
Asa Gray’s anonymous review.
"Intensely interested" in orchid homologies; like a "game of chess".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 [July 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2871 |
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- … August, and October 1860 issues of the Atlantic Monthly ([Gray] 1860b). Annotated copies …
To J. D. Hooker 16 June [1877]
Summary
CD cannot see the Emperor of Brazil because he is in Southampton, but he sends sincere respects for the Emperor’s role in assisting science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 June [1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 443–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11002 |
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- … very long you will be on the quiet wide Atlantic. — One word more,— when I heard that you …
To J. D. Hooker [8 September 1844]
Summary
Acknowledges note and parcel for Ehrenberg.
Considers why different areas have different numbers of species. Gives an example opposing JDH’s view that paucity of species results from vicissitudes of climate. CD has concluded that species are most numerous in areas that have most often been divided, isolated from, and then reunited with, other areas. Cannot give detailed reasons but believes that "isolation is the chief concomitant or cause of the appearance of new forms".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 Sept 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-776 |
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- … I have sent Eh. some more specimens of the Atlantic dust; I find that on one occasion, the …
To J. D. Hooker 29 January [1867]
Summary
On final instalment of "Insular floras" [Gard. Chron. (1867): 75]; rejoices at extent of their agreement.
Some criticisms of JDH’s position on geographical affinities, and volcanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5381 |
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- … and some of the volcanic history of the Atlantic Islands were discussed in C. Lyell 1867– …
To J. D. Hooker 18 [July 1855]
Summary
Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.
JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1719 |
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- … Dalton Hooker argued that if Forbes’s Atlantic landmass had existed, there should be more …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
William B. Bowles
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As a famous figure in the debates surrounding human evolution, Darwin could be something of a lightning rod for eccentric thinkers with their own ideas about his theories. The idea of a “missing link” compelled one such enthusiast to write to him about the…
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- … Debates on “The Negro Question.”” In Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race …
Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … conferred upon navigators passing the Equator – in the Atlantic – the very valuable boon of …
- … &c At the Rock Islet of St Paul, in the North Atlantic I saw “ravenous monsters of …
- … my assumption of what – is somewhat rare, in the South Atlantic – extraordinary currents – to wit – …
- … f.157r p.21 ] of the Indian and Pacific Oceans (as in the Atlantic) and that in the Pacific – …
- … (as it does to those of St Helena and Ascension in the South Atlantic *[5] ) causing breakers …
- … the Monster Shark caught at the Rock Islet of St Paul in the Atlantic were deposited by me in the …
- … would come in fleets to the Isles. Because when the South Atlantic whaling had become unprofitable …
Salvador da Bahia
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Seasickness and wonderfully increasing collections
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- … Reports on his trip across the Atlantic Ocean and arrival in the tropics of Brazil. …
The full edition is now online!
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For nearly fifty years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down all surviving letters written by or to Charles Darwin, research their content, and publish the complete texts. The thirtieth and final…
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- … years successive teams of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic have been working to track down …
Essays & reviews by Asa Gray
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Asa Gray wrote a series of reviews of Darwin’s works for American magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and The Nation. These gave publicity to Darwin’s theories, and they also contained extended reflections on the possible implications of these theories…
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- … reviews of Darwin’s works for American magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and The Nation . …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … his series of three (unsigned) articles published in the Atlantic Monthly . Although intended to …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … 400 or 500 miles. Owls and Hawks have often been seen in mid Atlantic. HOOKER: 28 …
- … Very much business as usual then, between our trans-Atlantic correspondents. A …
- … SCIENCE AND ARTS, MARCH 1860 79 A GRAY, ARTICLE, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, JUNE 1860 …
- … TO JD HOOKER, 2 JULY 1860 89 A GRAY, ARTICLE, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, JULY 1860 90 …
- … C DARWIN TO LYELL, 21 AUGUST 1861 100 A GRAY, ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR JULY, AUGUST AND …
- … 184 A GRAY, PREFACE, DARWINIANA, 1876 185 A GRAY, ATLANTIC MONTHLY FOR JULY, AUGUST, AND …
3.15 George Charles Wallich, photo
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< Back to Introduction In the years around 1868–1871, when professional photographers competed for sittings with Darwin, a doctor called George Charles Wallich approached him with a similar request. Wallich was planning to publish a set of his own…
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- … Wallich had been on board HMS Bulldog on its north Atlantic voyage of 1860, which was intended …
Darwin in letters,1866: Survival of the fittest
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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…
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- … and in the US Less success was achieved across the Atlantic, despite much effort expended by …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
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Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
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- … creature, and Chesney even hoped that Darwin would cross the Atlantic for its inspection. …