From J. D. Hooker 30 September 1849
Summary
CD partly right. JDH was calling "stratification" what CD calls "foliation". Answers CD’s question on cleavage foliation in Himalayas. Glacial action.
Charmed by CD’s Admiralty instructions on geology [in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50], but complains he does not give prices of books and instruments he recommends.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1849 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 217–18 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1257 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 January 1873
Summary
Explains why he wants Drosophyllum.
Hopes JDH will be elected President of Royal Society.
Agrees with JDH on Greg’s Enigmas.
Would like Greg to visit Down if JDH comes as CD’s "protector".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 248–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8729 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1849
Summary
Physical description of Sikkim mountains.
Travelling through Kinchin snows.
Transported boulders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1849 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 131–5 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1219 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 or 16 February 1854]
Summary
Has received JDH’s book [Himalayan journals (1854)]. Is very gratified by the dedication to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 or 16] Feb 1854 |
Classmark: | Oliver N. Hooker (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1552F |
To J. D. Hooker 7 July [1854]
Summary
CD’s view requires only that ancient organisms resemble embryological stages of existing ones. Thus "highness" in plants is difficult to evaluate because they have no larval stages. Would compare highest members of two groups, rather than archetype, to determine which group was higher. Against Forbes’s polarity and parallelism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 July [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1577 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1855]
Summary
JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.
On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1680 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [July 1855]
Summary
Has read a paper, presumably by JDH, using the Madeiran flora to argue against Forbes’s doctrine.
JDH asked how far CD will go in attributing common descent; he intends to show "the facts & arguments for & against the common descent of species of same genus; & then show how far the same arguments tell for or against forms, more & more widely different".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1719 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 June 1864
Summary
JDH busy reforming Kew’s operations.
Falconer may "fall foul" of Huxley’s anger over his attacks on Lyell.
Has heard of a coffee plantation post for Scott.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4537 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 May 1848
Summary
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 May 1848 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1174 |
From J. D. Hooker [early December 1856]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [early Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1966 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 October 1863
Summary
With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 167–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4321 |
To T. C. Eyton 26 November [1855]
Summary
Asks TCE’s advice on preparation of birds’ skeletons.
His pigeon collection is growing; now has pairs of ten varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 26 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1784 |
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 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. …
From John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone 20 June 1872
Summary
Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | 20 June 1872 |
Classmark: | Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, pp. 41–9. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8403F |
To John Scott 21 May [1864]
Summary
Encloses an extract from a letter received from [J. D.] Hooker which suggests a job opportunity in India. Advises careful reflection about the risks and the need for a character recommendation. Would like to support the costs of the voyage and initial living expenses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 21 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4505F |
To J. D. Hooker [April 1852]
Summary
Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.
Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.
[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [Apr 1852] |
Classmark: | DAR 107: 66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1496 |
To William Robert Grove 26 April [1854]
Summary
Is honoured by his election to the Philosophical Club [of the Royal Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robert Grove |
Date: | 26 Apr [1854] |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1567 |
To G. R. Waterhouse 4 March [1855]
Summary
A page of [unspecified] text is missing from a parcel of material received from GRW.
CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"
Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 4 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1641 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 December 1868]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Dec 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 247; Linnean Society of London MS. SP 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6511 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1877
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 90–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11006 |
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