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From J. D. Hooker [23 September 1873]

Summary

Thanks for C. E. Norton’s address.

Tyndall’s answer [Nature 8 (1873): 399] has surprised and disappointed him;

great trouble in announcing Tyndall’s election as President Elect [of BAAS] yesterday. Tyndall may throw up the Presidency. Spottiswoode and JDH have concocted a letter telling him the facts.

A very poor dull meeting. Comments on papers by W. C. Williamson, Clerk Maxwell, David Ferrier, Burdon Sanderson [Rep. BAAS 43: lxx–xci, 23–32,126–7, 131–3].

Has heard Huxley is back quite well.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[23 Sept 1873]
Classmark:	DAR 103: 173–4
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-9063

Matches: 13 hits

… some maps of the world’ (see Report of the 43rd meeting of the British Association for the …
… telling him the facts. A very poor dull meeting. Comments on papers by W. C. Williamson, …
… Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Bradford (see n. 12, below). In …
… Association for the Advancement of Science meeting the president for the following year …
… p. 12. Tyndall did serve as president of the 1874 meeting held in Belfast. Alexander …
… of the Bradford British Association meeting; he had replaced James Prescott Joule , who …
… to ill health ( Report of the 43rd Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement …
… coal plants (see Report of the 43rd meeting of the British Association for the Advancement …
… evening of 22 September (see Report of the 43rd meeting of the British Association for the …
… function in the brain’ (see Report of the 43rd meeting of the British Association for the …
… Burdon Sanderson presented two papers at the meeting; Hooker probably refers to ‘On the …
… of the biology section (see Report of the 43rd meeting of the British Association for the …
… telling him the facts. This is a very poor meeting indeed. Williamsons address was very …

To W. H. Miller [16 October – 27 November 1842]

Summary

Mentions preparing geological notes for press. Asks whether WHM still has some geological specimens he had examined for CD.

Urges WHM to attend important meeting of Geological Society on 3 December.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Hallowes Miller
Date:	[16 Oct – 27 Nov 1842]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.29)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-651

Matches: 8 hits

… to A. C. Seward, 26 July 1901 (DAR 112: 3–4), confirms the dates of the meetings. …
… for CD. Urges WHM to attend important meeting of Geological Society on 3 December. …
… very possible, it may be last meeting ever worth attending, at least some think so. I hope …
… ought if they possibly can to attend the Special general meeting on December 3 d —. Pray …
… mention it to all friends of the Soc: If the meeting be not well attended, it is …
… islands, pp. 32–3). At a Special General Meeting of the Geological Society, held 2 …
… of Curator. At a second Special General Meeting on 14 December, Edward Forbes was elected …
… to the post. CD was present at both meetings, but Miller was absent. See letter to Charles …

From William Angus Knight 20 August 1867

Summary

Offers CD a room for his forthcoming visit to the BAAS meeting at Dundee.

Author:	William Angus Knight
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	20 Aug 1867
Classmark:	DAR 169: 40
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5610

Matches: 5 hits

… Offers CD a room for his forthcoming visit to the BAAS meeting at Dundee. …
… for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting for 1867 in Dundee from 4 to …
… 11 September ( Report of the thirty-seventh meeting of the British Association for the …
… of Science; held at Dundee in September 1867 , p. lxxiii). CD did not attend the meeting. …
… you are to visit Dundee during the meetings of the British association in September: and I …

From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1869

Summary

Reports on events at Exeter [BAAS] meeting. G. G. Stokes made a first-rate President.

Huxley "poured boiling oil" over James McCann in answer to his "conceited dogmatic sermon".

F. A. W. Miquel is coming to stay.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	7 Sept 1869
Classmark:	DAR 103: 30–1
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6879

Matches: 11 hits

… Reports on events at Exeter [BAAS] meeting. G. G. Stokes made a first-rate President. …
… address. Report of the thirty-ninth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement …
… near Droitwich— Exeter was a very good meeting & Stokes made a first rate President,— …
… friends. The “punctum saliens” of the whole meeting was decidedly Huxley’s answer to D r M …
… Hooker had attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, …
… few foreigners & fewer nobs. & the whole meeting was a very quiet one, except at the end, …
… biology section of the British Association meeting. It was followed by remarks from Thomas …
… of the stars and nebulæ’ ( Report of the meeting of the British Association for the …
… alludes to a dispute over the proposed location of the 1870 British Association meeting. …
… In the event, the meeting was held in …
… Liverpool ( Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of …

From Ellen Frances Lubbock [before 31 August 1868]

Summary

Sven Nilsson may visit John Lubbock.

Norwich [BAAS] meeting was most successful.

Author:	Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[before 31 Aug 1868]
Classmark:	DAR 170: 12
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6338

Matches: 6 hits

… Sven Nilsson may visit John Lubbock. Norwich [BAAS] meeting was most successful. …
… of the president. Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the …
… Congress for Prehistoric Archaelogy was meeting in Norwich under the presidency of John …
… them to see you. We had a most successful meeting at Norwich, & the “Prehistoric” was the …
… have been written between the end of the meetings in Norwich (see n. 3, below), and the …
… Elms, some of the people attending the Norwich meetings of the British Association for the …

From J. D. Hooker [29 August 1874]

Summary

Lady Dorothy Nevill is CD’s best chance for Dionaea.

Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off admirably. Huxley’s was the magnum opus.

Encloses letter from Mrs Barber on protective coloration of animals.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[29 Aug 1874]
Classmark:	DAR 103: 219–20
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-9610

Matches: 9 hits

… s best chance for Dionaea . Reports on Belfast meeting of BAAS. Lubbock’s lecture went off …
… Lubbock’s Lecture went off admirably— but Huxley’s was the magnum opus of the meeting. …
… It was a most capital meeting. Moore brought splendid pitcher-plants. Ever yours affec | …
… by the reference to Hooker’s return from the meeting of the British Association for the …
… Advancement of Science in Belfast. The meeting finished on 26 August 1874; the following …
… Botanical Gardens at Kew ( ODNB ). At the meeting of the British Association in Belfast, …
… the subject at the British Association meeting ( J. D. Hooker 1874a ). David Moore , who …
… in Dublin ( ODNB ), exhibited a monstrous Sarracenia flower at the meeting ( Report …
… of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1874), …

To J. S. Henslow 6 May 1849

Summary

Describes cold water cure he has been taking for two months at J. M. Gully’s establishment.

Plans to go to BAAS meeting at Birmingham if health improves.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	John Stevens Henslow
Date:	6 May 1849
Classmark:	DAR 145: 63
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1241

Matches: 9 hits

… J. M. Gully’s establishment. Plans to go to BAAS meeting at Birmingham if health improves. …
… had proferred invitations for future meetings. An invitation from Ipswich for 1849, ‘ …
… by the British Association’s general committee at the meeting held in Swansea, 8–16 August …
… 1848 (see Report of the 19th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of …
… of Hitcham, was evidently rejected for a meeting in 1849, the British Association may have …
… planned to meet there in 1850, but, if so, the meeting was postponed until 1851. …
… The 1850 meeting took place in Edinburgh. CD, much …
… was able to attend the British Association meeting. He was one of eight vice-presidents. …
… beauty spots at the time of the Oxford meeting of the British Association. Wild lilies of …

From J. D. Hooker [19 September 1864]

Summary

Reports on personalities at the Bath meeting of BAAS [Sept 1864].

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[19 Sept 1864]
Classmark:	DAR 101: 240–2
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4616

Matches: 11 hits

… Reports on personalities at the Bath meeting of BAAS [Sept 1864]. …
… September. Hooker was attending the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement …
… 21 September 1864 ( Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
… Ages of society. Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
… address. Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
… lectures at the British Association annual meetings was divided into sections by subject; …
… separate sections ( Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
… ethnology section ( Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the …
… with Burton at the British Association meeting on 18 September 1864; Burton intended to …
… and Fitzwilliam also presented papers at the meeting drawing on their experiences (see …
… Report of the thirty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of …

To Charles Lyell 8[–9] September [1866]

Summary

Disappointed to put off CL’s visit because of illness of CD’s sister [Susan], but hopes to see him in October.

Thanks for lending pamphlet [L. Agassiz, Geology of the Amazons]. Agassiz has written "wild nonsense".

Refers to a translation of Pictet and Humbert’s "capital" paper on fossil fish ["Recent researches on the fossil fishes of Mount Lebanon", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237].

Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:	8[–9] Sept [1866]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.319)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5208

Matches: 4 hits

… Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237]. Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting. …
… floras delivered on 27 August 1866 at the meeting of the British Association for the …
… p. 77). CD may be referring to the 1840 meeting of the British Association for the …
… met Agassiz ( Lurie 1960 , p. 100). At this meeting, Agassiz gave a paper on glaciers in …

To ? 1 July 1871

Summary

Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Unidentified
Date:	1 July 1871
Classmark:	Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-7844

Matches: 3 hits

… Regrets ill health will prevent his attending the BAAS meeting at Edinburgh. …
… The annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was held …
… 9 August 1871 ( Report of the 41st meeting of the British Association for the Advancement …

From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1860

Summary

JDH reports on the debate on the Origin at Oxford [BAAS] meeting.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	2 July 1860
Classmark:	DAR 100: 141–2
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2852

Matches: 8 hits

… JDH reports on the debate on the Origin at Oxford [BAAS] meeting. …
… Hooker alludes to the 1847 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of …
… to Frances Harriet Henslow during the 1847 meeting (see L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 219, and …
… is determined by law. Report of the 30th meeting of the British Association for the …
… had not one word to say in reply & the meeting was dissolved forthwith leaving you master …
… attend and contribute to sessions of the Oxford meeting. Hooker refers to the library of …
… Museum, in which Section D held its meeting. The museum was a product of the university’s …
… to answer I waited to hear the end. The meeting was so large that they had adjourned to …

To Hugh Falconer 4 [September 1863]

Summary

Sends address.

Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Hugh Falconer
Date:	4 [Sept 1863]
Classmark:	DAR 144: 33
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4293

Matches: 4 hits

… Sends address. Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle. …
… Presidential address. ] Report of the 33d meeting of the British Association for the …
… American nations. Report of the 33d meeting of the British Association for the Advancement …
… South American nations’ ( Blake 1863b ) at the meeting of the British Association for the …

To Elizabeth Wedgwood [28 August 1837]

Summary

Regrets he cannot come to music meeting in Birmingham because he is very busy with the proofs of his book [Journal of researches]. A waste of life to spend a summer in ugly Marlborough Street.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
Date:	[28 Aug 1837]
Classmark:	V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 228)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-375

Matches: 7 hits

… Regrets he cannot come to music meeting in Birmingham because he is very busy with the …
… to you for thinking of so pleasant a party as the music meeting would have been to me. …
… been like the never to be forgotten music meeting, many years ago. — But I find I cannot …
… volume. — I had not forgotten the music meeting, & your scheme of my taking Liverpool, and …
… will say I am utterly unworthy of a music meeting, when I tell you, that I think I would …
… Emma will I daresay give me a little music meeting in the evenings, which must do instead …
… away so much good enjoyment as the Music Meeting would be. To write a book, I do not doubt …

From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1874

Summary

An awful row at the Linnean Society. William Carruthers and Co. packed a meeting to throw out a decision of the Council. He was beaten by one vote (more than two-thirds majority needed).

Spent two hours with Lyell talking about Thomas Belt’s book [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: "the tropical old Glaciers beat the seance I do think".

Lyell agrees that the glacial epoch is the great geological crux of the day. Lowering of the ocean level must also be investigated.

Curious about A. C. Ramsay’s paper coming at Royal Society on 29th ["On the comparative value of certain geological ages", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 22 (1874): 145–8].

Huxley’s new book [? Critiques and addresses (1873)].

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	20 Jan 1874
Classmark:	DAR 103: 187–8
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-9250

Matches: 9 hits

… William Carruthers and Co. packed a meeting to throw out a decision of the Council. He was …
… pm continuous — then dinner, followed by the meeting at 8 1 2 . he is very prudent, I am …
… Linnean when Carruthers & Co. packed a meeting to throw out the decision of the Council & …
… over & above the 2 3 majority of a packed meeting. I was awfully excited & anxious for 2 …
… 1874 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). At a meeting of the Linnean Society of London held on …
… the proposed alterations be put to the meeting seriatim , but his motion was declined. In …
… twenty-one. For a detailed account of the meeting, see Proceedings of the Linnean Society …
… doings by accident 24 hours before the meeting. We give a ball tonight, which will finish …
… of the continuing disagreement at later meetings, see Gage and Stearn 1988 , pp. 67–71. …

Groeben, Christiane. 2008. Tourists in science: 19th century research trips to the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4th ser. 59: 139–54.

Matches: 2 hits

… http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v59/Florence meeting reprint …
… files/Florence meeting Chap 9 Groeben reprint LR.pdf 23 …

To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1847]

Summary

On scheduling farewell meeting.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[21 Oct 1847]
Classmark:	DAR 114: 107
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-1129

Matches: 1 hit

… On scheduling farewell meeting. …

To John Phillips 1 September [1858]

Summary

Explains that he cannot serve as President of the Zoological Section at the BAAS meeting [1858].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	John Phillips
Date:	1 Sept [1858]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.157)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-2324

Matches: 4 hits

… that he cannot serve as President of the Zoological Section at the BAAS meeting [1858]. …
… Dated by the reference to the 1858 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement …
… including physiology) of the forthcoming meeting of the British Association for the …
… Charles Cardale Babington was president of Section D at the meeting, 22–9 September 1858. …

To W. A. Knight 22 August [1867]

Summary

Will not attend the British Association meeting at Dundee.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Angus Knight
Date:	22 Aug [1867]
Classmark:	The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Knight Collection MA 8601)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5614F

Matches: 3 hits

… Will not attend the British Association meeting at Dundee. …
… for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting for 1867 in Dundee from 4 …
… to 11 September ( Report of the 37th meeting of the British Association for the …

From T. L. Brunton 12 February 1882

Summary

Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.

Author:	Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	12 Feb 1882
Classmark:	DAR 160: 348–9
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-13679

Matches: 11 hits

… of the Colleges of Physicians & Surgeons have agreed to call a meeting at the College …
… of Physicians & a preliminary meeting has been held in order to draw …
… a programme for discussion at the general meeting. There are two different opinions as to …
… their authority, unless ordered at a meeting convened after due notice, at which twelve …
… the entire Council, after consideration at a meeting called for the specified object, on a …
… when you have finished with it. The next meeting will be on Wednesday week & I may be able …
… s rules , see, for example, Report of the 51st Meeting of the British Association for the …
… was formed in April and had its first meeting on 20 April 1882, one day after CD died (see …
… best. There will be another preliminary meeting very shortly to discuss this & I should be …
… resolutions. At the last preliminary meeting we only got over the first two. I have no …
… special purpose; and shall at their meeting in each year appoint a Secretary Treasurer, …

From T. H. Huxley 12 September 1868

Summary

BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.

Author:	Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	12 Sept 1868
Classmark:	DAR 166: 314
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-6363

Matches: 6 hits

… BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread …
… of the president. Report of the thirty-eighth meeting of the British Association for the …
… No record of Peter Martin Duncan’s recent meeting with CD has been found; however, Emma …
… to Ireland tomorrow. We had a capital meeting at Norwich & dear old Hooker came out in …
… the presidential address at the recent meeting in Norwich of the British Association for …
… on the impact of CD’s theory at the meeting of the British Association, see the letters …

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Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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