To J. D. Hooker 5 November [1853]
Summary
Edward Sabine’s official letter announcing CD’s receipt of Royal Society Medal left him cold. JDH’s informal one moved him.
Applauds JDH for supporting John Lindley.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1540 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 October 1853]
Summary
Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 Oct 1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1529 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1854 (Wilson and Geikie 1861 , pp. 523–33). Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxiii. Hewett Cottrell Watson had accused Forbes of using the system Watson had devised for describing the geographical distribution of British plants without proper acknowledgment (see Correspondence vol. 3, letter from J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxxi. Hooker kept these expressions in Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxxii. See Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xxii. See Hooker 1853–5 , 1: xiii–xiv. At the beginning of October 1853, Robert Jameson’s resignation as professor of natural history at Edinburgh University was conditionally announced. A deputy was appointed until Jameson’s death on 19 April 1854. …
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1853]
Summary
Further response to MS of introductory essay to Flora Novae-Zelandiae.
Disbelieving in permanence of species has made little difference to CD in his barnacle work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1853] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1532 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1854): 184–93 and 308, and Scalpellum maximum in Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 26. CD’s general point is that he would have had to grapple with similar taxonomic problems whether or not he believed in the impermanency of species. The title finally decided upon was Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia mountains, &c. ( J. D. Hooker …
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Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
