From J. D. Hooker 4 February 1866
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.
Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4996 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 May [1855]
Summary
CD’s seed paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8];
CD attacks Forbes’s "Atlantis".
Considers solutions to floating problem. Decides to test Azores seeds.
Photographs and drawings of CD.
Plant movement experiments with Hedysarum gyrans.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 May [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1688 |
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- … 1847 . Wollaston 1854 , pp. xiii–xiv. The introductory essay to J. D. Hooker and Thomson …
- … J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855, pp. 13–18). William Benjamin Carpenter must have seen an advance copy of the work since it was published in July (L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 374). Principles of general and comparative physiology ( Carpenter 1839 ). An annotated copy of the fourth edition ( Carpenter 1854 ) …
From J. D. Hooker 26 March 1871
Summary
Answers CD’s questions.
Reception of Descent. Evolution accepted everywhere; descent of man accepted calmly.
Morocco plans.
Fears for Huxley, who is overworked.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 65–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7627 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 December 1861]
Summary
Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 136, 129c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3341 |
To W. D. Fox 19 March [1855]
Summary
Asks WDF to observe at what age pigeons have tail-feathers sufficiently developed to be counted.
CD is hard at work on his notes for a book with all the facts "for & versus" the immutability of species.
Asks for a young chicken and a nestling common pigeon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 19 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1651 |
To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 17 November 1854
Summary
Requests authoritative information on erratic boulders and marks of glaciers in New Zealand, and especially in southern islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
Date: | 17 Nov 1854 |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1603 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [July 1855]
Summary
CD experiments: sowing seeds in fields; "breaking" seeds’ constitution with coloured light; plant hybridisation. Compiling works on hybridism.
Respect for W. B. Carpenter.
Note on "nectar secreting" to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 258–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1717 |
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 |
From Daniel Oliver 8 April 1867
Summary
Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5494 |
From George Bentham 2 December [1856]
Summary
Cites cases of leguminous plants whose cleistogamic flowers produce more seed than perfect flowers. [See Forms of flowers, p. 326.]
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 September 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 240–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4616 |
From Lawson Tait 16 November [1875]
Summary
Has CD ever come across Dischidia rafflesiana?
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10261 |
To Charles Lyell 16 [June 1856]
Summary
Condemns theory of Edward Forbes and others that many islands were formerly connected to South America by now submerged continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 [June 1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1902 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857]
Summary
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 20 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2033 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 May 1863]
Summary
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 137–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4165 |
To Asa Gray 18 June [1857]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s remarks on disjoined species. CD’s notions are based on belief that disjoined species have suffered much extinction, which is the common cause of small genera and disjoined ranges.
Discusses out-crossing in plants.
Has failed to meet with a detailed account of regular and normal impregnation in the bud. Podostemon, Subularia, and underwater Leguminosae are the strongest cases against him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 June [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (9a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2109 |
To Emma Darwin 5 July 1844
Summary
Asks that in the event of his death, Emma should have the sketch of his species theory edited and published. Suggests possible editors, among them Lyell, Edward Forbes, and J. D. Hooker. [CD annotation on cover: "Hooker by far best man to edit my species volume Aug 1854".]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1844 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-761 |
To George Bentham 27 January [1858]
Summary
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 27 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13778 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1856]
Summary
CD is unsure about JDH’s recommendation that he publish a separate "Preliminary Essay". It is unphilosophical to publish without full details.
CD will work for Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1874 |
From Robert Hunt 19 July 1855
Summary
Discusses how best to simulate the light at a particular point on the earth’s surface using coloured glass; considers sunlight as composed of three "principles", varying in proportion according to latitude, which affect germination, lignification, and floriation.
Author: | Robert Hunt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1721 |
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