To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1856]
Summary
Troubled by JDH’s connection between Antarctic island flora and Fuegia, which CD sees as part of a general relation to southern circumpolar flora. Encloses list [not found] of plants from Tristan d’Acunha.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1919 |
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- … see letter to Charles Lyell, 5 July [1856] ). The original order of the letters has been …
- … June [1856] . Letter from Charles Lyell, [1 …
- … July 1856] . See letter to Charles Lyell, 5 July [1856] . CD reiterated this intention in …
- … 1856. CD states that his first letter was written in the morning and that he had also written to Charles Lyell ( …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 5 [July 1856] . A. de Candolle 1855 . Letter to Charles Lyell, 25 …
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1856]
Summary
Lyell urges CD to publish a sketch of species theory; CD asks JDH’s opinion on best course.
Concerned about opposition, particularly by Owen, to Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 May [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1870 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1859]
Summary
At work on abstract.
Continues argument on effectiveness of dispersal. Has doubts about relationship of isolation to highness of Australian flora. Questions about survival of European plants introduced in Australia.
CD receives the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2401 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 July [1856]
Summary
CD’s predicament with continental extensions: they would remove argument for multiple creations, yet he opposes the doctrine. Lyell will not express an opinion on this.
Lyell fears mutability would lead to more specific names.
Encloses copy of letters to Lyell [1910 and 1917].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 July [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 172, 165, and 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1933 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 May 1867]
Summary
Glad to hear Wallace is contender for Gold Medal. Has highest esteem for his extraordinary talents.
Thanks for H. Barkly’s letter from Mauritius.
Glad to see HB takes same view as CD about bones of deer [see 5395].
Objections to continental extension theory.
Progress [on Variation] very slow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 May 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5543 |
To J. D. Hooker 17–18 [June 1856]
Summary
Comments on Huxley–Falconer dispute [see "On the method of palaeontology", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 18 (1856): 43–54].
Wollaston’s On the variation of species [1856].
Has exploded to Lyell against the extension of continents.
Plants common to Europe and NW. America as result of temperate climate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17–18 [June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1904 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 July [1856]
Summary
Has found no case of Huxley’s eternal hermaphrodites.
Cruelty and waste in nature.
CD does not believe in hybrids.
One proven case of multiple creations would smash CD’s theory.
Asks JDH to read MS on alpine and Arctic distribution.
Lyell’s "conversion" to mutability.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 July [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1924 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 August [1866]
Summary
Admits that occasional transport is not a well-established hypothesis but believes it more probable than continental extension as an explanation for the stocking of islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5185 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 March [1861]
Summary
Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3091 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 March [1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2719 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2297 |
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- … Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever. JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [ …
- … 1856. According to Henrietta Emma Darwin , ‘The poor little baby was born without its full share of intelligence. Both my father and mother were infinitely tender towards him, but, when he died in the summer of 1858, after her first sorrow she could only feel thankful. He had never learnt to walk or talk. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 162). Henrietta probably overstated the case: for CD’s memorial of Charles Waring, see Correspondence vol.7, Appendix V. Hooker and Charles Lyell …
To J. D. Hooker 30 July [1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 July [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 294, 294b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5167 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [December 1859]
Summary
CD will not write to L. Descaisne to defend his priority over C. V. Naudin.
Feels success of theory depends on acceptance and application by good and well-known workers, like JDH, Huxley, and Lyell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2602 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 February [1862]
Summary
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3458 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 March [1859]
Summary
Will finish last chapter (except recapitulation) tomorrow.
Pleased with JDH’s response to geographical distribution chapter;
CD disagrees with Lyell’s view that glacial epoch is connected with position of continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2432 |
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- … 1856, he had not written up the material on the means of dispersal nor his views on land- bridges and oceanic islands. These sections, as he states in the letter, were first composed for Origin . Charles Lyell’ …
- … Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 …
To J. D. Hooker 23 April [1863]
Summary
Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.
Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.
Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4122 |
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- … Lyell, Charles. 1830–3. Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857]
Summary
Rule that species vary most in larger genera seems universal.
Response to Gardeners’ Chronicle note on "Bees and kidney beans" [Collected papers 1: 275–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Nov 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2170 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 September [1856]
Summary
Whether or not there should be movement of particles according to Tyndall’s theory of glacial action ["Observations on glaciers", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 2: 54–8, 441–3].
CD subscribes to H. C. Sorby’s view of gneiss [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
Seed-salting.
Pigeons.
Significant differences in skeletons of domesticated rabbits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Sept [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1950 |
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- … 1856] . Sorby 1856 . Henry Clifton Sorby proposed that cleavage took place when metamorphosed stratified rock that had been foliated was subjected to contortion and pressure. Thus slaty cleavage could not, as CD had thought, be partially developed foliation. The problem of the origin of cleavage and foliation had been the subject of much of CD’s correspondence with Daniel Sharpe and Charles Lyell …
To J. D. Hooker [1 September 1864]
Summary
CD continues to have trouble reconciling the Veitch’s names for Bignonia plants and Kew names.
Lyell and Falconer called on CD in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4605 |
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