To J. D. Hooker 16 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7949 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … letter from J. D Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 and n. 4. See, for example, …
- … from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 . CD refers to Hooker’s mother, …
- … to visit the Darwins (see letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 15 September 1871 ). …
- … In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked CD to send him Henry …
- … in Southampton. In his letter to Emma Darwin of 15 September 1871 , Hooker had asked CD to …
To J. D. Hooker 21 January [1871]
Summary
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7448 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1871]
Summary
Sends proofs of Huxley’s article on Mivart, to be published in Contemporary Review ["Mr Darwin’s critics", 18 (1871): 443–76].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7977 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 February [1871]
Summary
Returns pamphlets.
B. T. Lowne’s observation [Mon. Microsc. J. 4 (1870): 326–30] that boiling does not kill certain moulds is curious, but then how account for absence of all living things in Pasteur’s experiment?
Always delighted to see a word in favour of Pangenesis.
Thiselton-Dyer’s paper ["On spontaneous generation and evolution", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 10 (1870): 333–54] is Spencerian.
The chemical conditions for first production of life are said to exist at present, but in some warm little pond today such matter would be absorbed or devoured, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 188–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7471 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … records that Henrietta Emma Darwin had measles on 4 January 1871 and ‘came down’ on 25 …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records that Hooker, Albert Günther , Robert Swinhoe , and William Winwood Reade visited Down from Saturday 28 to Monday 30 January 1871. …
- … 1871 , n. 1. ) William Turner Thiselton-Dyer’s paper, ‘On spontaneous generation and evolution’, appeared in the October 1870 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ( Thiselton-Dyer 1870 ). Thiselton-Dyer cited Herbert Spencer’s Principles of biology ( Spencer 1864–7 ) frequently in his paper and agreed with Spencer’s view that life developed from non-living matter by slow stages. Emma Darwin’ …
From J. D. Hooker 19 March 1871
Summary
Describes plans for travel in Morocco with George Maw and John Ball.
Has not yet read Descent.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7600 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 July [1871]
Summary
Thanks for information about Henslow’s mouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 July [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7881 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1872
Summary
Gladstone’s private secretary [West] has written that the Government plans to alter JDH’s position with regard to the First Commissioner of Works [Ayrton].
Huxley is not better after his Brighton trip.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8136 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 October 1871]
Summary
On Huxley’s article for Contemporary Review [see 7977] confuting Mivart. It has cheered him,
for he is very low about his mother’s state.
Is also in detestable position with "my lord and master", A. S. Ayrton. JDH has denounced him to the [First] Lord of the Treasury [W. E. Gladstone] for his conduct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Oct 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7981 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1873]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on G. J. Allman’s work. Approves of JDH’s text proposing GJA for Royal Medal.
Will be proud to see General Richard Strachey at Down – a truly great man.
Specimens of Drosera are waiting to be examined.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 265–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8960 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 July [1871]
Summary
Honoured by Abutilon name; describes observations on its fertilisation.
Henrietta’s marriage a great loss to him.
Latest Quarterly Review has article, "evidently by Mivart", that cuts CD into mincemeat.
Asks for name of species of mouse J. S. Henslow used to keep [see 598].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 July [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 199–200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7878 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwins stayed at a house called Haredene, in Albury, Surrey, from 28 July to 25 August 1871 (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Henrietta Emma …
- … Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 204). St George Jackson Mivart’s anonymous review of Descent appeared in the Quarterly Review for July 1871 ([ …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876. Descent : The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1871. Emma …
To J. D. Hooker 29 [June 1871]
Summary
Delighted to hear from Lyell of JDH’s return from successful ascent of the Atlas Mts.
Fears JDH found no Madeira or Canary types, but CD is pleased at his moraine discovery.
Thinks Lyell’s health is serious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [June 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 195–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7838 |
From J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin 15 September 1871
Summary
His mother very ill.
Mrs Hooker back from Bavaria.
Hopes marriage [of Henrietta] went well. Is accused of saying he would rather go to two burials than one marriage.
Has heard from Huxley who is threatening to "thin out" Mivart. Huxley is reading Francisco Suarez and finds Mivart misquotes or misunderstands him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 83–84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7945 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 November [1871]
Summary
CD is considering repeating experiments on melastomads in which different pollen sizes produced differing seedling sizes.
Responds to JDH’s query on differences in pollen within the same species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 445–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8087 |
From J. D. Hooker [5 February 1872?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [5 Feb 1872?] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 105–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8200 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Hooker arrived at Down on 3 February 1872. The first Monday following that date was 5 February. The enclosure has not been found, but an entry in CD’s Account book–bank account for 29 January 1872 records a payment of £1 for ‘Lefroy—Castle Moreton (charity)’. John Henry Lefroy was governor of Bermuda from April 1871 …
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
Matches: 1 hit
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 July 1871
Summary
Has given CD’s name to a species of Abutilon found by Fritz Müller.
Pleased at Henrietta [Darwin]’s engagement.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7877 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1871): 5917. Hooker mentioned that, in addition to the plants raised from seed sent by CD, there were dried specimens in the herbarium at Kew that had been sent by Fritz Müller in 1869. Rio Capivari is a small river in eastern Santa Catarina, inland from Desterro (now Florianópolis); Müller passed by it on his excursion to Boa Vista in May 1868 and collected the Abutilon seeds there ( Fritz Müller 1869, p. 355; West 2003 , p. 70 (map), pp. 151–7). Henrietta Emma Darwin …
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1872
Summary
William [Hooker] is in first division of matriculation list of London University.
Other family news.
No news on Ayrton affair. Ayrton has taken staff appointments out of JDH’s hands.
Asks whether CD knows about Zizania aquatica – can hardly believe it is an annual.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 103–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8176 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1871 ). CD had acquired specimens of Leersia oryzoides in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from William Bennett, 25 May 1864 ), and sent Hooker specimens in 1866 ( Correspondence vol. 14, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 December [1866] ). Hooker refers to his dispute with Acton Smee Ayrton (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1872 and n. 1). Hooker presumably refers to Anne Isabella Thackeray . According to Emma Darwin’ …
From J. D. Hooker 14 October 1875
Summary
JDH shares CD’s annoyance with R. L. Tait.
Has identified awned carpels for CD.
Sports of Paritium.
Suggests extending Francis’ experiments with glycerine on twisted seeds, to Mimosa.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10197 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), so the request was probably made in person. Anemone alpina is the alpine anemone or pasque flower; Anemone montana is the mountain pasque flower; both have seed-heads with long hairy awns. Francis Darwin was engaged in a series of experiments on awned seeds (see n. 4, below). Paritium is a genus of the plant family Malvaceae (mallows). CD’s specimens had been sent by George King (see Correspondence vol. 19, letter to George King, 27 January [1871] ). …
To J. D. Hooker [20–]22 February [1864]
Summary
Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.
Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.
Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?
Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20–]22 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 221a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4412 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and CD’s ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II)). Hooker had offered to send a copy of Thury 1863 to CD (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 and n. 12). For additional discussion of Marc Thury and his work, see letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 and n. 22, and letter to W. R. Greg, 21 March [1871 ? ], …
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