To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1859]
Summary
Has read first sheets of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [introductory] essay [published separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. Criticises lack of evidence supporting views that best marked varieties occur at edges of range of species and that species remain under cultivation for many generations and suddenly begin to vary.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2450 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1859] …
- … the proof-sheets of Hooker 1859 , which Hooker had asked him to read (see letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, 5 [March 1859] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [9 March 1859] ). Hooker’s text …
- … to visit Down (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 April [1859] ). The details were not fixed …
To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1859]
Summary
JDH’s comments on style of Origin MS leave CD confused.
CD advises on how to get Acacia to set seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2458 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1859] …
- … Hooker, 2 July [1859] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 July [1859] . …
- … Hooker 1859 is in the Darwin Library–CUL; these pages were annotated by CD, and three passages are marked ‘good’. See also letter to J. D. …
- … 1859] . CD and Hooker had evidently discussed the question of cross-pollination in Acacia and Goodenia when Hooker had visited Down in April. See letter to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859]
Summary
CD hopes Woodward was not the Athenæum reviewer. "The manner in which he drags in immortality, & sets the Priests at me … is base".
JDH has made CD feel he can "face a score of savage reviewers".
H. C. Watson has written to him in tremendous praise of the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2542 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859] …
- … the relationship to the letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Letter from J. D. …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November …
- … views. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Michael Faraday , the director …
- … Hooker, [21 November 1859] . The author was in fact John R. Leifchild (see letter to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker [27 October or 3 November 1859]
Summary
More detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae]. Remarks on struggle of vegetation are admirable.
JDH will receive Origin in about ten days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 Oct or 3 Nov] 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2512 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [27 October or 3 November 1859] …
- … to read the proof-sheets of Hooker 1859 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1859] ) …
- … s receipt of the letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1859] , and the dispatch of the …
- … to Hooker’s essay. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 22 December 1858 . Hooker 1859 , p. …
- … 1859 , p. cv. CD and Hooker had corresponded about this point in December 1858. See especially letter from J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 21 [December 1859]
Summary
Delighted JDH coming to Down. They will discuss Origin. JDH’s remarks that theory explains too much are excellent, yet CD cannot see his error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2591 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 21 [December 1859] …
- … Hooker, 23 [December 1859] . See letter to Asa Gray, 21 December [1859] , and letter from J. D. …
- … stay at Down ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] ). William Henslow Hooker was …
- … 1859, p. 441. Hooker must have mentioned the paper by Charles Victor Naudin on species and varieties published in the Revue Horticole ( Naudin 1852 ). See following letter and letter to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 5 [March 1859]
Summary
Will read JDH’s printers’ slips on variation.
CD has been so ill, he wonders whether he will get his book done, though so nearly completed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2424 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 25 [December 1859] …
- … received a copy of Hooker 1859 on 22 December (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [December …
- … Naudin 1852 ). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 21 [December 1859] and23 [December 1859]. …
- … pp. 346–410) (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 March [1859] ). In 1856, he had read CD’s …
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1859]
Summary
JDH finds style of CD’s MS obscure.
CD wary of JDH’s starting point on variability: it is not inherent, it does not lead necessarily to divergence, and it must be distinguished from inheritance.
Asa Gray has misread CD’s views on pre-glacial migrations and botched the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2461 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1859] …
- … Hooker, 11 March [1859] ). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 3 May [1859] and 6 May [1859] . …
- … 1859] . Frances Harriet Hooker had probably read the part of CD’s manuscript on geographical distribution that had been sent to Hooker for his comments (see letter to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [December 1859]
Summary
High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of immutable creation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 33, 30a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2606 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2613 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2452 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1859]
Summary
Sends MS [of Origin] on geographical distribution. Wants JDH to correct facts and say what he most vehemently objects to.
Has received JDH’s note on plant embryology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2429 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 September [1859]
Summary
All but last two chapters of Origin proofs corrected.
Praise for JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
Very ill and sick of work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Sept [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2485 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July [1859]
Summary
Returns JDH’s proofs. He is so involved in Origin he cannot judge force of JDH’s arguments. Some detailed comments.
Haldeman’s old paper [see 2470] clever, but does not have natural selection. Explaining adaptation has always seemed turning point of theory of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2475 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1866]
Summary
Has finished Variation. May insert a chapter on man.
Still puzzled by seeds of Adenanthera.
New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued.
Fritz Müller found six genera of dimorphic plants in one day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 309, 309b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5321 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [20 December 1859] ; and ibid . , vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 March [ …
- … Hooker 1859 on its own merits in his review ([R. Owen] 1860b), see Correspondence vol. 8, letters to Asa Gray , 25 April [1860] , and to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … essay ( Hooker 1859 ) for his flora of Tasmania (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 12 …
- … his copy of Hooker 1859 (Darwin Library–CUL). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 November …
- … 1859 , p. xxviii). CD had discussed this question with Hooker late in 1844 (see Correspondence vol. 3, Appendix III,p. 400). See also Correspondence vol. 5, letters from J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 2 April [1859]
Summary
Thanks for letter of caution about Murray. He has offered to publish without seeing MS. CD thinks book will be popular to a certain extent. Lyell’s inducing Murray to publish Origin grates CD’s pride.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2446 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Hooker 1859 ) in the letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 [January 1860] ( Correspondence vol. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 8 February [1860] ). Origin was sold out at John Murray’s trade sale on 24 November 1859 ( …
- … 1859, Dr. Hooker published his Introduction to the Tasmanian Flora: in the first part of this admirable essay he admits the truth of the descent and modification of species; and supports this doctrine by many original and valuable observations. CD asked Hooker the date of publication of his essay ( J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker, [15 March 1863] and nn. 7 and 9. CD’s historical preface, giving a ‘sketch of the progress of opinion on the origin of species’, was first added to the first American edition of Origin , which was published in July 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 8, Appendix IV). The sketch concluded ( Origin US ed. , p. xi): In November, 1859, …
To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1869]
Summary
The house at Barmouth.
His poor health.
Bentham’s interesting Linnean Society Address ["On geographical biology", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1869): lxv–c].
CD particularly wishes to know how botanists agreed with zoologists on distribution.
Still thinks isolation more important in preserving old forms than Bentham is inclined to believe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 June [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 134–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6793 |
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