To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
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- … which reviewed A. R. Wallace 1853 , Hooker 1854 , and Bates 1863 , as well as other …
- … 1863] and n. 7). In Origin , pp. 357–8, CD remained highly sceptical of Forbes’s theory in its broadest form, but admitted the possibility that there had been some land bridges. CD was interested in the depth of the ocean as an indicator of a boundary between different faunal regions (see letter to A. R. Wallace, …
From J. D. Hooker 29 May 1866
Summary
JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5104 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [May 1864]
Summary
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 [May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506 |
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- … 1863] , and letters to Charles Lyell , 6 March [1863] and 12–13 March [1863] . See also Van Riper 1993 , pp. 139–43, and Bynum 1984 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1864 and n. 3, and letter to A. R. Wallace, …
- … 1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11). For CD’s views on Gärtner’s, Kölreuter’s, and Naudin’s work on hybrid reversion, see Origin 4th ed. , pp. 331–5, Variation 1: 392 and 2: 36, 49–50. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] and nn. 4 and 6; Olby 1985 , pp. 1–71; and Mayr 1986 . CD refers to Wallace 1864b . See letter from A. R. …
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1864]
Summary
Asks JDH to verify an observation on Dicentra – what CD thought was a branch in the young plant now looks like a gigantic leaf in the old.
Concurs on Spencer’s clever emptiness.
Ramsay exaggerates role of ice. Sorry to hear that Tyndall grows dogmatic.
Admits difficulty of making case for Wallace’s Royal Medal at this time.
Will soon finish the first draft of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 253 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4650 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 August 1881
Summary
Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.
Opinion of Humboldt.
Origin of higher phanerogams.
Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 524–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13288 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [November 1863]
Summary
On Wedgwood vases for JDH.
Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Nov 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4348 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1862
Summary
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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- … R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] ). The Hookers had travelled to Switzerland in July so that Frances might recover her health (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 28 June 1862 , 2 July 1862 , 10 July 1862 , and [24 July 1862] ). Frances Hooker’s late father, John Stevens Henslow , was survived by four sisters ( Jenyns 1862 , p. 5); the reference is probably to the eldest, Anne Frances Henslow , who died unmarried on 30 August 1863 ( …
From J. D. Hooker [26 September 1865]
Summary
On his reading: George Eliot,
T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.
Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.
His grief over loss of father and child.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Sept 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 34–6a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4899 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
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- … 1863 ( Byrne 1964 , p. 85). Wallace had given a negative opinion of Tylor 1865 in his letter to CD of 2 October 1865 . For Hooker’s earlier recommendation of Tylor 1865 , see the letters from J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n. 13, and [15 June 1865] . For Wallace’s views on Lecky 1865 and Buckle 1857–61 , see the letter from A. R. …
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
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- … R. Wallace, 2 January 1864 and nn. 20 and 21. CD gave a brief assessment of the significance of Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck in the historical sketch in Origin 3d ed. , pp. xiii–xiv. Although CD referred to Zoonomia and Lamarck 1809 while he was compiling his transmutation notebooks ( Notebooks ), in his correspondence he was dismissive of both (see Correspondence vol. 11, letters to Charles Lyell , 12–13 March [1863] …
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
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- … 1863] ). Hooker also refers to Erasmus Alvey Darwin and to the Athenaeum Club in London. William Jackson Hooker . In his letter of 2 January 1864 , Alfred Russel Wallace praised Herbert Spencer ’s publications, mentioning that they were also appreciated by Thomas Henry Huxley . CD had asked for Hooker’s opinion of Spencer in his letter of [10 and 12 January 1864] . William Benjamin Carpenter . Hooker refers to the Principles of biology ( Spencer 1864–7 : see Spencer 1904 , 2: 103, and letter from A. R. …
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