To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1869]
Summary
The house at Barmouth.
His poor health.
Bentham’s interesting Linnean Society Address ["On geographical biology", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1869): lxv–c].
CD particularly wishes to know how botanists agreed with zoologists on distribution.
Still thinks isolation more important in preserving old forms than Bentham is inclined to believe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 June [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 134–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6793 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 December 1866
Summary
Analysis of New Zealand flora; proportion of indigenous annuals.
Uniform climates are poor in species.
Evergreen and deciduous vegetation: relationship to flora and fauna.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5324 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 December 1866]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 129–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5328 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Switzerland ( DSB ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 [December 1866] and n. 6. From the …
- … between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 [December 1866] . In 1866, the …
- … letter from B. J. Sulivan, 25 December 1866 ). CD had suggested that Oswald Heer might be interested in them (see letter to J. D. Hooker, …
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … or Primula. See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 May 1866 , n. 9. CD met Grove in …
- … D. Hooker 1860a . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 May 1866 , nn. 7 and 8. CD refers …
- … between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 May 1866 . CD went to Leith …
- … Advancement of Science. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 29 May 1866 and nn. 3 and 4. In …
To William Robinson [29 April 1866]
Summary
Is sorry to have missed seeing WR.
Mentions some crossing experiments with Nymphaea and Euryale in which he would be interested, if WR ever had the chance to make them [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 365].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robinson |
Date: | [29 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (WRO/2/25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5072 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 July [1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 July [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 294, 294b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5167 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1866] . …
- … Hooker about geographical distribution, see the letter to Charles Lyell, 15 February [1866] , n. 6. See letter from J. D. …
- … in Nottingham on 27 August 1866 (see letters from J. D. Hooker, [17 August 1866] and 18 …
- … Vernon Wollaston in the letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1866] , as implying that he …
- … letter of [24 July 1866] , Hooker had noted the absence of alpine and subalpine plants in Madeira. Hooker and CD held differing views of the means by which plants were distributed among continents and islands (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 131–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5358 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 May 1866
Summary
JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5104 |
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 Robert Swinhoe [September 1866]
Summary
Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
Date: | [Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5202 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 December 1865]
Summary
Will explain about the so-called hybrids of Lythrum when they meet.
JDH should not be proposed for Copley Medal this year because Royal Society Council has so few naturalists on it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 Dec 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4959 |
To Fritz Müller [before 10 December 1866]
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].
Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.
Haeckel has visited Down.
FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | [before 10 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5261 |
From J. D. Hooker [December 1866?]
Summary
Asks CD to send W. R. Grove titles and place of publication of the Müller [Für Darwin (1864)] and Walsh (Walsh 1864–5) papers he referred to in his address [BAAS lecture at Nottingham, see 5135].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Dec 1866?] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5288 |
From J. D. Hooker [17 August 1866]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Aug 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5191 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 June [1866]
Summary
Has heard from B. J. Sulivan about the fossils at Gallegos, Patagonia. Would be a great haul for palaeontology if Duke of Somerset would encourage Capt. Mayne to collect them [on survey of Magellan Strait].
Tells JDH of a new map of world that he might use in his lecture [on "Insular floras", BAAS, 1866, J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 5 (1867): 23–31; Gard. Chron. (1867): 6, 27, 50, 75].
Impressed by H. Spencer’s last number, but each suggestion would require years of work to be of use to science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 292 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5135 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Down on 18 August ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [17 August 1866] ). Herbert Spencer’s …
- … Spencer’s work, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 December 1866 and n. 4. Spencer …
- … letter to Hooker on Lupinus has been found; however, CD may have discussed the plant with Hooker during his visit to Down on 23 June. CD later sent Hooker a specimen of Lupinus to identify (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 [July 1866] ). …
- … letter from B. J. Sulivan, 27 June 1866 , n. 11. Hooker was to give a lecture on insular floras at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Nottingham in August ( J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker 1866a , p. 75). George Howard Darwin had visited his brother William Erasmus Darwin in Southampton on 21 June (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 20 June [1866] ). …
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1866]
Summary
Requests water-lily pods to count, weigh, and to germinate some of the seeds of the crossed and uncrossed pods.
Hopes Haeckel did not bore him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5262 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … 12, and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1866] ). Hooker visited Down …
- … a letter from Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 May [1866] ) has …
- … letter to H. B. Jones, [23 April 1866? ] ). CD had read Edward Burnett Tylor’s book The early history of mankind ( Tylor 1865 ) in 1865 and had asked Hooker whether he knew the author (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. D. …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 2 December [1859] ). HMS Nassau surveyed the Straits of Magellan from 1866 to 1869; the naturalist on the voyage was Robert Oliver Cunningham . See letter from J. D. Hooker, …
- … 1866), pp. 44–5). Hooker had suggested in 1863 and 1864 that CD sit for the sculptor Thomas Woolner (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, [1 March 1863] ). CD had attended a reception at the Royal Society of London on 28 April 1866 ( …
From J. D. Hooker [28 August] 1866
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Aug] 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 98–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5199 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 September 1866
Summary
[N. C.?] Seringe’s article [unspecified] has come safely.
Feels deeply at CD’s distress [Susan Darwin is dying].
Drosera will go in a day or two.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5214 |
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