From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1875
Summary
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 …
To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1869]
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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 |
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- … to know how botanists agreed with zoologists on distribution. Still thinks isolation more …
- … wished to hear how Botanists agreed with Zoologists about Distribution. Everything Bentham …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [June 1854]
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CD gives his definition of "highness" and "lowness" as "morphological differentiation" from a common embryo or archetype. JDH’s view, with which CD agrees when it can be applied, is the same as Milne-Edwards’, i.e., the physiological division of labour. There is little agreement among zoologists and CD admits his own lack of clarity.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [June 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1573 |
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- … labour. There is little agreement among zoologists and CD admits his own lack of clarity. …
- … idea in regard to plants. I do not think zoologists agree in any definite ideas on this …
To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1856]
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Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1851 |
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- … for one, sh d . not like to propose another zoologist, though Hancock w d . be a very good …
- … Copley and a Royal Medal were awarded to zoologists (see n. 14, below). Lindley was not …
- … seconded by Sabine, John Richardson , a zoologist, for the Royal Medal (see letter to …
To J. D. Hooker [28 May 1847]
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Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 May 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1092 |
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- … off any Botanist. I wonder whether zoologists & Geologists have got their tender points; I …
To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1866]
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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 |
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- … He is a very nice fellow & a first-rate zoologist but talks atrocious English. My dear …
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
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On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
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- … origin of species from the viewpoint of a zoologist. New York: Columbia University Press. …
- … and sub-species began to be adopted by some zoologists and botanists, to take account of …
To J. D. Hooker 5 March [1863]
Summary
Ill health.
At work on Variation.
Reading JDH on Welwitschia.
Letter from Lyell defends his position on species.
Anger at Owen.
John Lubbock’s lectures.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4024 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2719 |
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- … in every respect. — Geologists Zoologists Physiologists Botanists Palæontologists Lyell …
To J. D. Hooker 25 July 1875
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Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 389 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10091 |
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- … If you think it advisable to have a Zoologist will you forward the paper & this note to …
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1864]
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Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4561 |
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- … this morning from a very good German Zoologist E. Haëcke, who maintains that all the best …
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 …
To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1866]
Summary
Introduces Ernst Haeckel.
Lyell sent same chapters to CD, who thinks them very good but is not convinced that changes of land and water will do all he thinks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5257 |
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- … is Prof. Ernst Häckel, a first-rate Zoologist, who wishes much to know you, so I could not …
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 |
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- … 14 (1865): 513. The British Museum zoologist John Edward Gray was the only professional …
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 …
To J. D. Hooker 7 August [1860]
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Owen wants to be civil, and sneer behind CD’s back.
Those, like Rudolph Wagner, who want to go halfway on theory, are "booked to go further".
Anatomy of orchids.
Huxley says K. E. von Baer goes "a great way with me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Aug [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2892 |
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- … read Cybele-supplement. The “conspious zoologist”, who says nat. selection does not apply …
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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- … about Books on “Origin”; a very good Zoologist Claus has just published one, with my name …
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 …
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1856]
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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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- … deal more”. — How very odd it is that no zoologist sh d . ever have thought it worth while …
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 …
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2.27 William Couper bust, New York
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< 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 …