From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1875
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E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 45–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10286 |
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- … one. If you add to this that all the cases hitherto acted on are those of Zoologists,—& …
- … that zoologists have never been liberal to the Society in gifts or paying for their …
- … should be left wholly in the hands of Zoologists, who are unanimous. & in the council the …
- … because of the favouritism shown to zoologists by the Linnean Society in cases where fees …
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1876
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Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 53–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10444 |
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- … and n. 1. Alfred Henry Garrod was a zoologist educated at King’s College, London, and St …
From J. D. Hooker [15 March 1863]
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JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Mar 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 117–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4040 |
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- … John Monteiro , a mining engineer and zoologist residing in Luanda, Angola, to try to …
From J. D. Hooker 23 October 1863
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With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 167–70 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321 |
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- … The reference is to the Swedish geologist and zoologist Otto Martin Torell and to Torell …
From J. D. Hooker 6 January 1863
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Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 88–91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3902 |
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- … I do wish he had cut it into 4—for a non-Zoologist like me it is an apalling thing to have …
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1862
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Observations on Welwitschia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 52–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3690 |
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- … reference is to the mining engineer and zoologist, Joachim John Monteiro , who resided in …
From J. D. Hooker [29 June 1854]
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JDH on "highness" of Coniferae: they are genuine Dicotyledons, not a link to cryptogams; that is a geologists’ fallacy. Thus they are highest plants in Carboniferous.
Does not agree with CD’s "elastic" species theory. Long correspondence with Lyell on this.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 June 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 383 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1576 |
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- … much edified by your information of the Zoologists opinion of what is high & low, as I do …
From J. D. Hooker [late August – early September 1851]
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James Wilson reports case of salmon hybrids.
Herrings inhabit freshwater lake in Scotland during winter.
JDH will edit juror reports for the Great Exhibition.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [late Aug – early Sept 1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1440 |
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- … 1851] , n. 2). James Wilson , Scottish zoologist. In 1841 he began investigating the …
From J. D. Hooker [7 May 1863]
Summary
Falconer going to France in defence of his views.
On scientific squabbling.
Herschel’s theory of the earth.
Bates’s book.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 135–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4144 |
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- … Falconer, 24 April [1863] and n. 6). The zoologist Armand de Quatrefages was a supporter …
From J. D. Hooker [15 January 1863]
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JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3919 |
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- … 1: 425). Hooker refers to the physician and zoologist William Benjamin Carpenter . In his …
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1864]
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Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Dec 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 262–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4708 |
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- … suppose that your merits as Geologist, & Zoologist are Audaciously Exaggerated— there then …
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2.27 William Couper bust, New York
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1909 the centenary of Darwin’s birth and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species coincided. In recognition of this historic milestone, a grand celebration and international colloquium took place…
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- … sent a cablegram on the occasion, with greetings from the zoologists gathered for a commemorative …
Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition
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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.
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- … Von Baer, towards whom all zoologists feel so profound a respect, expressed about the …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … wonderfully good. ' Among the names of geologists, zoologists, physicians, and …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … has occasioned much doubt and difference of opinion among zoologists’. How and why did …
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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- … he counted among this number four geologists, four zoologists or palaeontologists, two physiologists …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … Henri Milne-Edwards and Armand de Quatrefages, both leading zoologists in Paris. Quatrefages had …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … reminded him that the work was ‘written for geologists & zoologists’, and that throughout his …
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…
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- … to the great bewilderment of systematic botanists and zoologists, and increasing disagreement as to …
Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … regarding it mainly from the geological side. As some of our zoologists and palaeontologists may …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … among botanists who complained that it was always the zoologists who had their fees remitted. Darwin …
