To Edouard Claparède [c. 16 April 1862]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède |
Date: | [c. 16 Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4371 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 January 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3373 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 December 1862]
Summary
"Throttled off" Welwitschia paper at Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 1–48].
Has read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).
Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3856 |
To John Scott 19 December [1862]
Summary
JS should be proud of his paper ["Nature of the fern-spore", Edinburgh New. Philos. J. 2d ser. 16 (1862): 209–27].
CD has just found that JS’s observations on the confluence of two sexes causing variability were independently confirmed by Huxley.
CD has always suspected a fundamental difference between buds and ovules.
Asks for examples of "bud-variation" or "sports".
Asks JS to test germination of pollen on rostellum of Laelia.
Offers JS money for experimental supplies, e.g., netting, to keep insects out of flowers.
Encloses an outline of crossing experiments with Lythraceae, Primula, Pelargonium, and others, which he feels would be valuable.
Note on melastomids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 19 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B35–6, B64–5, B80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3868 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Dawson’s letter. Doubts his evidence that climate of land was not glacial when upheaved after submergence.
Encloses memorandum of questions for C. V. Naudin.
Expression of the emotions.
Is building a hothouse for plant experimenting.
JDH’s ideas on America are more atrocious than his. What a new idea that struggle for existence is necessary to try to purge a government! Probably true. Slavery draws him one way one day, another the next. Yankees are "detestable toward us". Tocqueville.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3875 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1862]
Summary
Thanks JDH for box of melastomes
and a very valuable reference from Daniel Oliver.
Is crossing Monochaetum which he thinks is dimorphic.
Is "sometimes half tempted to give up species & stick to experiments".
Pollen of Bletia hyacinthina is quite unlike other Bletia species but exactly the same as Epipactis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3440 |
To George Bentham 3 February [1862]
Summary
Asks GB’s help to clear up discrepancies between his and John Lindley’s observations on pollination of Melastomataceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 3 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 694–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3437 |
From J. D. Hooker [10 March 1862]
Summary
Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3469 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Bentham received, named, and distributed the plants Spruce sent back to England ( DNB ). Hooker, in his reply to Bates of 18 March 1862, informed him that Bentham had not kept a record of Spruce’s native names, but had reclassified the specimens according to their natural orders ( Bates 1892 , pp. lv–lvi). Bates described several of these fruits in Bates 1863 , …
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