To W. H. Harvey 24 December [1856]
Summary
W. J. Hooker thinks Harvey will be willing to give information on reproduction of higher marine plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1856] |
| Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (21 April 2011) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2021F |
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 |
To Charles Lyell 18 February [1854]
Summary
Comments on CL’s plan to visit Tenerife.
Discusses inclination of strata on islands and around mountains.
Personal affairs of several scientists.
Visit by Henslow.
Notes publication by Hooker [Himalayan journals (1854)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1854] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.108) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1553 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 September [1861]
Summary
CD’s orchid paper is to become orchid book [Orchids].
Primula paper is done [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3263 |
To Charles Lyell 26 April [1858]
Summary
Comments on letter from Georg Hartung to CL dealing with erratic boulders.
Discusses migration of plants and animals.
A letter from Thomas Thomson on heat endured by temperate plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.151) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2262 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 February 1846]
Summary
Thinks JDH’s explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands is probably correct.
Proposes experimental test to see whether alpine form of a plant is inherited like a true variety.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 Feb 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-951 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [December 1861]
Summary
Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.
CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.
Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3346 |
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 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 5 January 1860
Summary
Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2638 |
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 |
From John Davy 30 January 1855
Summary
Responds to CD’s letter. The ova of Salmonidae exposed to air, if kept moist, will stay alive up to 72 hours.
| Author: | John Davy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1855 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1634 |
From Frederick Smith 26 February 1858
Summary
Identifies an ant described by CD and discusses the predatory habits of Formica sanguinea.
Describes some wasps’ nests.
| Author: | Frederick Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 191 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2226 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 September [1854]
Summary
Second Living Cirripedia volume published. Asks THH’s advice on presentation copies for continental naturalists.
THH’s review of Vestiges of creation in [Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 13 (1854)]. CD is almost as unorthodox on species as the author of Vestiges, but hopes not quite so unphilosophical.
Hopes L. Agassiz was sounder on embryological stages than THH thinks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 2 Sept [1854] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1587 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1861]
Summary
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3352 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 July [1866]
Summary
His reasons for rejecting Atlantis hypothesis connecting Madeira and Canary Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 294, 294b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5167 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, [17 August 1866] and 18 August 1866 ). CD refers to T. V. Wollaston 1854 , …
- … 1854 ( Correspondence vol. 5). In his letter of [24 July 1866] , Hooker had noted the absence of alpine and subalpine plants in Madeira. Hooker and CD held differing views of the means by which plants were distributed among continents and islands (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 13, letter to J. D. …
From Charles Lyell 17 June 1856
Summary
CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".
CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".
Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 475 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1905 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 June or 3 July 1856]
Summary
Can no longer make out story of NW. American plants; consulting Asa Gray.
Questionable validity of seed-salting experiments.
Aristolochia and Viscum seem to shed pollen before flower opens.
Ray Society should only do translations.
Thomas Thomson in India has rediscovered Aldrovanda, a rare relative of Drosera.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 June or 3 July] 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1911 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1864
Summary
JDH is making inquiries for CD on temperate climbing plants.
Discusses politics of Royal Society Council in awarding CD the Copley Medal.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Nov 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 258–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4684 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1858]
Summary
Fertilisation of clover by bees in New Zealand.
Uneasy about biggest genera and their varieties.
H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [History of civilisation in England (1857)].
Working on bees’ cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2222 |
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