From J. D. Hooker 7 November 1862
Summary
JDH admits he wrote Gardeners’ Chronicle and Natural History Review articles on orchids [Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863, 910; Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6].
JDH’s objections to CD’s idea of how Greenland was repopulated. Temperate Greenland has as Arctic a flora as Arctic Greenland – a fact of astounding force. Why should certain Scandinavian species be absent? Migration by sea-currents can no more account for the present distribution in Greenland than can special creation.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 68–9, 73–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3797 |
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- … elastic’ theory as early as 1854 (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 …
- … 1854] ), and his ability to ‘wriggle out’ of theoretical difficulties had become a joke between the two friends (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 6, letter from J. D. Hooker, [16 November 1856] , and letter to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 18 [November 1862]
Summary
A German scholar says JDH first applied natural selection to replacement of races of men, the ruder races of Polynesians yielding to civilised Europeans. CD cannot remember reading this.
Warns JDH to take care Welwitschia does not turn into a case of barnacles and consume years instead of months.
In what months do flowers appear in Acropera loddigesia and A. luteola? CD is alarmed by John Scott’s observations on them, which differ from his own. "I am very uneasy."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [Nov 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 170 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3812 |
To Asa Gray 22 January [1862]
Summary
Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".
U. S. politics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3404 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 September 1862
Summary
Asks his opinion of A. C. Ramsay’s glacial lake theory. Encloses Julius Haast’s communication on glacial phenomena.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 58, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s Correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 273) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3731 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 January 1862]
Summary
JDH castigates the Americans after the Trent affair. The value of an aristocracy. How will CD answer Asa Gray’s letter?
His "remarkable plant" [Welwitschia mirabilis] exhibited at Linnean Society.
Genera plantarum is in press.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 8–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3395 |
To Asa Gray 1 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for notes on Cypripedium and Platanthera hookeri, which is really beautiful and quite a new case.
His son, George, has been observing the insect fertilisation of orchids.
CD has been crossing peloric flowers of Pelargonium, but doubts he will get good results with respect to sterility of hybrids.
Rhexia glandulosa does not appear to be dimorphic. Lythrum is trimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3634 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 July [1862]
Summary
Lenny [Leonard Darwin]’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Lythrum salicaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3649 |
To C. C. Babington 20 January [1862]
Summary
Discusses Stellaria and other plants said to be dimorphic.
Asks for plants he wants for experiments.
Preparing a little book on Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3397 |
From C. W. Crocker 24 November 1862
Summary
Answers on Begonia.
Snapdragon crossing experiments.
Thanks for offer of plants.
| Author: | Charles William Crocker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 259 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3824 |
To Daniel Oliver 13 October [1862]
Summary
Requests Linum, for dimorphism study.
Reviewer of Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6]is correct about the organisation of the book; he wonders who the reviewer is.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 37 (EH 88206020), 261.10: 66 (EH 88206049) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3758 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Asa Gray 10 November 1862
Summary
AG has Cypripedium to send to CD.
Civil War and English feelings.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3799 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1854 ( Jansen ed. 1989 ). There was a postscript to this letter, which has not been found; it was apparently a response to CD’s queries about maize, included in his letter of 16 October [1862] (see letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] , and letter from Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 ). This is a note to Hooker, to whom CD sent this letter (see letter to J. D. …
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| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Babington, C. C. | (1) |
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