From J. D. Hooker [6–11 December 1860]1
Royal Gardens Kew
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Ed I.2 P. 9. Is the term Sport confined to buds & offsets. If so, they must necessarily be rare under nature.3 p. 18. Many people have remarked that the Quarterly so disposed of Horner’s pottery dating that they wonder you should quote it.—4 I know nothing. p. 19. Bottom of page. I suppose you know that a Greyhound will run a Scotch Terrier. p. 29. I think the “explanation” of the Gardeners disbelief, is more due to want of reversion, & the fact that all future varieties wander still further from the wild apple. p. 58. Bottom. “Finally x x x &c”— this is very unclear, though I see the meaning p. 109. Middle of page. “Each area is already fully stocked”— 110 at top. “No region is as yet fully stocked”— p. 132. Forbes’ & Gould’s statements are repeated in next page. p. 193. replace h by c & read ‘Matteucci p. 197. Is not the Bamboo here alluded to a Palm? 219 “Slaves carry masters” 221 “Masters carry slaves.” 353. Perhaps better to say that most Natural Genera “almost invariably continuous in area”—for many of most natural are cosmopolitan. 369 line 17. for “Some few” read “many” 379. An equally curious case is that of a group of several N. Chili species reappearing in N. Mexico & California5 416 It is the position of the rudimental florets of grapes that Brown found so important, not their characters. 459. line 7 from bottom The introducing “which we may consider” is very confusing— ? take out comma before it—
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Footnotes
Bibliography
Horner, Leonard. 1858. An account of some recent researches near Cairo, with the view of throwing light upon the geological history of the alluvial land of Egypt. Pt II. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 148: 53–92. [vols. 7,8]
Origin: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859.
[Smith, William]. 1859. Bunsen’s Egypt and the chronology of the Bible. Quarterly Review 105: 382–421.
Wellesley index: The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals 1824–1900. Edited by Walter E. Houghton et al. 5 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1966–89.
Summary
JDH’s page-by-page criticisms on Origin, first edition, as requested by CD for preparation of the third edition.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-3013
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 104: 218
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- inc †
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 3013,” accessed on 4 October 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-3013.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 8