To J. D. Hooker 10 March [1854]
Summary
More praise for Himalayan journals.
How remote was glacial action in Himalayas?
Implies Himalayas were birthplace of many plants.
Final volume of Cirripedia to be printed in two or three months.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1558 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 7 September [1854]
Summary
Offers to send collection of cirripedes to Copenhagen Museum in return for assistance in his research. Mentions publication of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 7 Sept [1854] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to); Natural History Museum of Denmark |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1589 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 November 1854]
Summary
George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.
JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Nov 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 386 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1607 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 September [1854]
Summary
On individuality.
Huxley’s review exquisite, but too severe on Vestiges; sorry for ridicule of Agassiz’s embryonic fishes.
Stonesfield mammals.
J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society Medal.
Will begin species work in a few days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Sept [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1588 |
To John Higgins 25 December 1854
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions health of children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 25 Dec 1854 |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/83) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1615 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 s. 8 d. The discrepancy is explained by an entry in CD’s Account book (Down House MS) on 24 December recording a payment of 15 s . to: ‘M r Higgins Alford Agricultural Club’. Francis and Leonard Darwin (see ‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 5, Appendix I). CD’s Health diary (Down House MS) recorded from 14 …
From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1854]
Summary
JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.
There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 214–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1629 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 December [1854]
Summary
Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.
Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 388–90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1611 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 [December 1854] . CD discussed the scarcity of individual species preceding extinction in Natural selection , p. 145: ‘We may, perhaps, hypothetically account for such cases, by supposing that such genera are on the road towards extinction: for E. Forbes & others have remarked that the first step in this road is marked by a reduction of the individuals of the species. ’ In his notes on the fair copy of the MS version of this passage, Hooker wrote, ‘how can it be otherwise? ’ and CD responded, ‘by catastrophe it would be other wise’ (DAR 15.1 (ser. 2): 14). …
From G. R. Waterhouse 11 November 1854
Summary
Sends list of aberrant forms of Curculionidae.
Discusses in detail the artificiality of Carl Johan Schönherr’s classification. Sound generalisations about geographical distribution depend on sound classifications. Warns against putting too much faith in current catalogues.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1854 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 401 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1598 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14} — 91 Episus {18} {21} 92 Oxyrhynchus {3} 469 Læmosaccus {10} 93 Brachycerus {172} 480 Phænomerus {1} 95 Microcercus {8} 483 Apostasimerus {1} 210 Rhadinosomus {1} 491 Scambus {3} 231 Lithinus {2} 505 Sphadasmus {3} 247 Bastactes {1} 519–20 Synthliborhynchus {1} 265 Byrsops {25} 459 Heteropus {1} 275 Pteroplectus {1} 570 Mecopus {7} 287 Euomus {8} 585 Conophorus {1 Fam} 313 Cosmorhinus {2} 590 Campyloscelus {1} 341 Hyphantus {3} 591 & 2 perhaps equally 357–8 Strongylorhinus {1} or more aberrant {1} 366 Cnemidophorus {1 [‘1’ over ‘8’]} but I do not know them {2} 390 Otidocephalus {20} 593 Rhina {7} 396 Prionomerus {11} …
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