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 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 26 [December 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 33, 30a Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 [Dec 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from …
- … 24 December [1859] . CD had criticised Asa Gray’s view that there had been a post-glacial …
- … in A. Gray 1858–9 , in letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 May [1859] . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [12 December 1859] . Martins 1849 , which CD recorded in his reading notebook ( …
- … Hooker 1859 . See letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 7 April [1859] , 2 …
- … July [1859] , and …
- … 28 [July 1859] . …
- … CD’s copy of Hooker 1859 (Darwin Library–CUL) is heavily annotated. It is not clear to …
- … CD. See letter to Charles Lyell, 27 [December 1859] , in which CD discussed several of his …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … s Coral reefs as his authority ( Hooker 1859 , p. xv). In his copy, CD marked the passage …
- … made the same point in his copy of Hooker 1859 , p. xvi: ‘Hardly facts enough known— some …
- … Isl d . ’ CD wrote in his copy of Hooker 1859 , p. xvi: ‘An isl d so lofty & ancient as …
- … with this letter. A. Gray 1858–9 . See letters to Asa Gray , 21 December [1859] and …
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: 12 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 10 Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Apr [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. Criticises lack of evidence supporting …
- … The year is given by the reference to proof-sheets of Hooker 1859 . CD …
- … refers to 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 deals with the origin of …
- … plant species and varieties. CD refers to Hooker 1859 , p. viii. See …
- … letter. The point is discussed in Hooker 1859 , p. viii. This sentence and the remainder …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 April [1859] ). The details were not fixed until later in …
- … the month (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 11 April [1859] and …
- … 12 [April 1859] ). …
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: 13 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [27 October or 3 November 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 25 Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley 27 Oct 1859 3 …
- … Nov 1859 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … and other ‘Australian’ forms ( Hooker 1859 , p. c). CD and Hooker had previously discussed …
- … to Hooker’s essay. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 22 December 1858 . Hooker 1859 , p. …
- … civ. Hooker 1859 , p. cv. CD and Hooker had corresponded about this point in December …
- … see letter from John Murray, 2 November 1859 ). Of the two, the earlier one seems most …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1859] , and the dispatch of the proof-sheets Hooker …
- … from a temporary visit to the Ilkley hydropathic establishment on 4 November 1859. CD had …
- … agreed to read the proof-sheets of Hooker 1859 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [23 October 1859] ) in which Hooker discussed the fossil flora of Australia and …
- … flora and naturalised plants ( Hooker 1859 , pp. c--cvi). Hooker cited Joseph Beete Jukes’ …
To J. D. Hooker [20 November 1859]
Summary
Curious about author of review of Origin in Athenæum.
W. B. Carpenter has written and sounds converted, as has Quatrefages [de Bréau], who will "go a long way with" CD.
Has been ill and thus had time to brood about reception of book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [20 Nov 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2537 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [20 November 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 27 Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley [20 Nov 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … and Descriptive Botany. ’ ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 10 (1859–60): 176). …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1847–59. Cybele …
- … a review of Origin in Athenæum , 19 November 1859, pp. 659–60, and by CD’s remark that he …
- … at Ilkley for seven weeks. He arrived there on 4 October 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
- … which appeared in Athenæum , 19 November 1859, pp. 659–60, was anonymous, as was the …
- … A. de Quatrefages de Bréau, 5 December [1859]. Quatrefages de Bréau was professor of the …
- … 25 November and left for London on 6 December 1859. George Bentham was awarded one of the …
- … and Agricultural Gazette , 12 November 1859, pp. 911–12 (see following letter). CD had …
- … earlier in the year (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1859] ). See letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 October [1859] and [27 October …
- … or 3 November 1859] . The three foreign botanists were Jacob George Agardh , Nils Johan …
- … see letter to W. B. Carpenter, 18 November [1859] . Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de …
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: 10 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 21 [December 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 28 Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 [Dec 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Naudin 1852 ). See following letter and letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [December 1859] . See …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 21 December [1859] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [20 December 1859] . …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] ). William Henslow Hooker was the Hookers’ …
- … oldest son. CD refers to Hooker 1859 , which was due to …
- … be published in December 1859. Samuel Stevens was a natural history dealer who lived in …
- … the Royal Society was held on 22 December 1859 ( Bonney 1919 , p. 147). CD was a county …
- … Office directory for the six home counties 1859, p. 441. Hooker must have mentioned the …
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: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 14 Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 May [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … had visited Down in April. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 July [1859] . See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 2 July [1859] . …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … 14–15 and 159–67. Hooker’s views on reversion were given in Hooker 1859 , pp. viii–ix. …
- … CD’s copy of Hooker 1859 is in the Darwin Library–CUL; these pages were annotated by CD, …
- … See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 May [1859] . CD and Hooker had evidently discussed the …
To J. D. Hooker [26 May 1859]
Summary
Returning from Moor Park. CD will take up proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [26 May 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2464 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [26 May 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 17 Charles Robert Darwin Moor Park [26 May 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … University Press. 1985–. Eliot, George. 1859. Adam Bede. 3 vols. Edinburgh: William …
- … CD returned to Down on Saturday, 28 May 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
- … CD refers to proof-sheets of Hooker 1859 . …
- … Eliot 1859 . CD recorded Adam Bede …
- … novels in his reading notebook in July 1859 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: …
- … volume of Watson 1847–59 , which was published in July 1859 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
- … 16 July 1859, p. 336). See also letter from H. C. Watson, 3 January 1858 . CD’s …
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: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 26 Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley [22 Nov 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … instead of Watson here ( LL 2: 229). Letter from H. C. Watson, 21 November [1859] . …
- … the relationship to the letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . The author was in fact John R. Leifchild ( …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] , n. 2). Thomas Henry Huxley was hoping …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Michael Faraday , the director of the …
- … Gazette . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Francis Darwin’s edition of CD’s letters erroneously gives …
To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1859]
Summary
Queries possible misprint in JDH’s introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2613 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 34 Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 [Dec 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Dated by the reference to Hooker 1859 , which CD received …
- … on 22 December 1859 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 23 [December 1859] ). …
- … In CD’s copy of Hooker 1859 , p. xxxvi (Darwin Library–CUL), the word ‘Cruciferæ’ has been …
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1860]
Summary
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2635 |
Matches: 23 hits
- … to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ …
- … through the tropics to Australia in Hooker 1859 , pp. cii–cv, concluding that such an …
- … s Flora Tasmaniæ ( Hooker 1855–60 ). It was also issued separately in December 1859 ( …
- … Hooker 1859 ). There are copies of both …
- … the Darwin Library–CUL; the text of Hooker 1859 was extensively annotated by CD. CD and …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … the plants of Australia in detail ( Hooker 1859 , pp. xxvii–cxxviii). CD refers to …
- … Hooker praised in his essay ( Hooker 1859 , p. i). Hooker listed the ‘orders’ (‘families’ …
- … Curious’ beside it in pencil ( Hooker 1859 , p. xxxiii). Hooker also listed the regions …
- … most species in the south-west; two had most in the south-east ( Hooker 1859 , p. xxxiv). …
- … species found in Australia ( Hooker 1859 , pp. xlii–l). He believed that to account for …
- … contribution to the Indian flora ( Hooker 1859 , p. l). CD believed that Hooker’s remark …
- … for such a northward migration ( Hooker 1859 , p. civ). CD explained the absence of …
- … note to this effect in his copy of Hooker 1859 , p. liv: ‘Indian Tropical plants formed in …
- … Flora of Tropics. —’ In his essay ( Hooker 1859 , p. l), Hooker remarked how curious it …
- … the continuous land connection ( Hooker 1859 , p. li). Next to this passage, CD wrote in …
- … Australian explorer Edward John Eyre . Hooker 1859 , p. liv. CD marked the passage in his …
- … seeds. —’ CD commented in his copy ( Hooker 1859 , p. xcv): I wish I knew which of these …
- … to in the letter is tipped into Hooker 1859 following p. xcvi. It is headed ‘Notes for …
- … Literature, Science, and Art , 24 December 1859, pp. 775–6. The reviewer singled out the …
- … and Agricultural Gazette , 31 December 1859, pp. 1051–2, had been written by the editor, …
- … vol. 7, letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [20 December 1859] . CD refers to his belief in a former cold period during …
To J. D. Hooker 11 [September 1859]
Summary
Corrected last proof of Origin yesterday. Still has revises and index to do.
Will read more JDH proofs of Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 [Sept 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2490 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 [September 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 21 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 [Sept 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … The Trifolium pratense entry is dated 13 August 1859; that for Melilotus officinalis , 10 …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … CD recorded finishing his proofs on 1 October 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). See letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 1 September [1859] . Origin was included in John …
- … s list of publications for November ( Publishers’ Circular , 1 November 1859, p. 546). …
- … see letter to John Murray, [3 November 1859] , and Freeman 1977 , p. 75. The results of …
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1859]
Summary
Murray has read first three chapters of Origin and abides by his offer to publish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2452 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 11 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Apr [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … entry in his Account book (Down House MS) indicates he contributed £100 on 10 June 1859. …
- … CD’s letter to John Murray, 5 April [1859] . CD sent Hooker the chapters on geographical …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 March [1859] ). CD requested their return in the letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker,2 April [1859] . Emma Darwin’s diary records …
- … Erasmus Darwin arrived at Down on 9 April 1859. Following the oversubscription to the fund …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … Society resolved at a meeting on27 January 1859 to initiate a fund for the charitable …
To J. D. Hooker 3 May [1859]
Summary
CD favours occurrence of reversions, although lack of experiments forces one to vague opinions. Reversions oppose only the inheritance not the occurrence of variation. Discusses relation of reversion, direct influence of conditions, and selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 May [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2457 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 3 May [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 13 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 May [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … and n. 10, below. Hooker had visited Down on 21 April 1859 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). For …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … reversion of cultivated plants, see Hooker 1859 , pp. viii–ix. The paragraph on ‘ general …
- … and horses ( Origin , pp. 159–67). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1859] and …
- … 12 [April 1859] . Hooker considered that the manifestation of variability somehow …
- … of reversion. In his essay ( Hooker 1859 , pp. vii–viii n. ), he discussed the point in …
- … widely from the original type’ ( Hooker 1859 ,p. viii n. ). The same example was used by …
- … of the reversion of cabbages in Hooker 1859 , p. ix. John Peter Gassiot had been appointed …
- … also letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 April [1859] . The remarks were made by Samuel Haughton , …
- … meeting of the society on 9 February 1859 and reported in the Journal of the Geological …
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … D. Hooker, [9 March 1859] . …
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 7 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Mar [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] . Hooker had read CD’s manuscript of part of …
- … in Origin . The second chapter was written for Origin early in 1859. See letter from J. …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [June 1859]
Summary
CD making extensive corrections on proofs of Origin. Worries that style is too dry.
Doubts about Joseph Prestwich’s discovery [of flint tools].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 [June 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2471 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 22 [June 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 18 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 [June 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Royal Society on 26 May (see n. 2, above). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 6 May [1859] and …
- … 2 July [1859] . …
- … a meeting of the Royal Society on 26 May 1859, Joseph Prestwich announced the discovery of …
- … Wright published in the Athenæum , 18 June 1859, p. 809, on ‘Flint implements in the …
- … 2 June by John Evans ( Athenæum , 11 June 1859, pp. 781–2). Wright noted that hundreds of …
- … time chipping. ’ ( Athenæum , 18 June 1859, p. 809). Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes had …
- … this report to visit Abbeville in 1858 and 1859 and confirmed his findings. CD refers to …
To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1859]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on finishing his introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
Lyell’s position on mutability appears more positive in his letters to JDH than in those to CD. Considers JDH a convert.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2509 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 24 Charles Robert Darwin Ilkley [23 Oct 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … three weeks. He left Down on 2 October 1859 (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 7, Appendix …
- … II). CD read the proof-sheets of Hooker 1859 at intervals during the summer. See letter …
- … to T. H. Huxley, 15 October [1859] . For CD’s and Huxley’s previous correspondence on …
- … dealt with the fossil flora of Australia ( Hooker 1859 , pp. c–cvi). See also letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, [27 October or 3 November 1859] . Edmund Smith was the medical practitioner …
- … of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. …
- … has not been found; it was probably a reply to CD’s letter of 15 October [1859] . See …
- … the letter from Charles Lyell, 22 October 1859 , and n. 7. CD intended to forward copies …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 October [1859] , for two of his suggestions. [Hooker] 1856. …
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 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 2 July [1859] …
- … DAR 115: 19 Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 July [1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Henslow was to be married to R. Cary Barnard on2 August 1859 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s. …
- … 7 (1859): 303). CD’s experiments on the fertilisation of Corydalis lutea are recorded in …
- … CD was reading the proof-sheets of Hooker 1859 at intervals during the summer. Hooker …
- … than into dry and excessive ones’ ( Hooker 1859 , p. xvii). In the published text, the …
- … flowering plants. The passage ( Hooker 1859 , p. xx n. ) reads: These [fossil wood-boring …
- … to which CD refers reads ( Hooker 1859 , p. xxiii): Regarded from the classificatory point …
- … views on progressive development ( Hooker 1859 , p. xxiv), CD was not cited with regard to …
- … s work on flint tools. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [June 1859] . Haldeman 1843–4 . …
- … also letter to Charles Lyell, 21 June [1859] . The Copley and Royal Medals were awarded …
- … 1858. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May [1859] . Frances Harriet Hooker’s younger sister …
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1859]
Summary
CD has written to Asa Gray criticising J. D. Dana’s arguments for a warm period subsequent to glacial period.
Remembers it is Alphonse de Candolle who states that many species are not true species.
Did Huxley write the excellent review in the Times?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 [Dec 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2610 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 30 Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 [Dec 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Darwin Library–CUL. The Times , 26 December 1859, p. 8. CD was correct in believing that …
- … for review is given in LL 2: 255. See also letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] . …
- … in A. Gray 1858–9 . See letters to Asa Gray , 24 December [1859] and n. 6, and to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 26 [December 1859]. …
- … Letter to Asa Gray, 24 December [1859] . Hooker seems to have asked CD for the source of …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
- … life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1856. On the …
To J. D. Hooker 18 [May 1859]
Summary
Too ill to examine proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [May 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2463 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 18 [May 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 16 Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 [May 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … hydropathic establishment from 21 to 28 May 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). CD’s journal …
- … records that he actually left for Moor Park on 21 May 1859 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
- … CD refers to the proofs of Hooker 1859 , which he was reading as they became ready. …
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 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 5 [March 1859] …
- … DAR 115: 6 Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 [Mar 1859] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] . CD …
- … refers to the proof-sheets of Hooker 1859 . CD had asked Hooker to comment on the …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] ). Asa Gray had read a paper on the plants of …
- … at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. …
- … The paper was published later in 1859 ( A. Gray 1858–9 ). Gray had established that some …
- … Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859. ] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and …
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The writing of "Origin"
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
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- … hopes.— (letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ) The year 1858 opened with …
- … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
- … instinct the previous March. By the middle of March 1859, Darwin had finished the last …
- … upon Lyell for advice (letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). Lyell suggested the firm of …
- … plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 …
- … the forthcoming book (letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] ). Darwin next considered calling …
- … and varieties’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] , and to John Murray, 10 September …
- … Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to Moor Park in Surrey for a week’s …
- … than when I came’ (letter to W. D. Fox, [16 November 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley …
- … rag is worth anything?’ (letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters began …
- … of induction’ (letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). Equally painful was the news that …
- … (letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] ). To each of his critics, Darwin replied by resting …
- … to me to do.’ (letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] ). Even his strongest …
- … of Darwin’s theory (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only …
- … the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on 3 October 1859 , ‘the case of Man and his Races …
- … to their mercies’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] ). Late in December, to Darwin’s …
- … were the man.’ (letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] ). Huxley admitted his authorship to …
- … without good cause.’ (letter to John Murray, 2 December [1859] ). At Murray’s trade sale …
- … had made’ (letter from Charles Kingsley, 18 November 1859 ). This and the two references to the …
- … try to make out truth’ (letter to W. D. Fox, 24 [March 1859] ). Yet he desperately wanted people …
- … on our side.—’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] ). …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet …
- … and prompted the composition and publication, in November 1859, of Darwin’s major treatise On the …
- … exceeded my wildest hopes By the end of 1859, Darwin’s work was being discussed in …
- … ‘When I was in spirits’, he told Lyell at the end of 1859, ‘I sometimes fancied that my book w d …
- … hopes.—’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 [November 1859] ). This transformation in Darwin’s personal …
- … the writing of this ‘abstract’ continued until March 1859; the resulting volume was published in …
- … Botanic Gardens at Kew (see Appendix VII). The year 1859 began auspiciously with Darwin …
- … 1854) ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 15 (1859): xxv). One of the most …
- … theory. As he wrote in his introductory essay (Hooker 1859, p. ii): 'In the present Essay I …
- … to test such a theory. His essay, published in December 1859, was the first serious study of the …
- … the other’s ideas (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] , 11 March [1859] , and 7 …
- … upon Lyell for advice ( letter to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] ). Lyell suggested the firm of …
- … plan of his book (see letter from Elwin to Murray, 3 May 1859 , and letter to John Murray, 6 …
- … the forthcoming book ( letter to Charles Lyell, 30 March [1859] ). Darwin next considered calling …
- … and varieties’ (letters to Charles Lyell, 28 March [1859] , and to John Murray, 10 September …
- … Appendix II). Twice in 1858 and three times in 1859 he had gone to Moor Park in Surrey for a week’s …
- … than when I came’ ( letter to W. D. Fox, [16 November 1859] ). It was during his stay at Ilkley …
- … rag is worth anything?’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 June [1859] ). But as critical letters began …
- … of induction’ ( letter from Adam Sedgwick, 24 November 1859 ). Equally painful was the news that …
- … ( letter to Charles Lyell, [10 December 1859] ). To each of his critics, Darwin replied by resting …
- … to me to do.’ ( letter to Adam Sedgwick, 26 November [1859] ). Even his strongest …
- … of Darwin’s theory ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 May 1859 ). Among the older scientists, only …
- … the origin of mankind. As he wrote to Darwin on 3 October 1859, ‘the case of Man and his Races & …
- … to their mercies’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 November 1859] ). Late in December, to Darwin’s …
- … were the man.’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1859] ). Huxley admitted his authorship to …
Rewriting Origin - the later editions
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For such an iconic work, the text of Origin was far from static. It was a living thing that Darwin continued to shape for the rest of his life, refining his ‘one long argument’ through a further five English editions. Many of his changes were made in…
Controversy
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The best-known controversies over Darwinian theory took place in public or in printed reviews. Many of these were highly polemical, presenting an over-simplified picture of the disputes. Letters, however, show that the responses to Darwin were extremely…
Matches: 6 hits
- … Letter 2525 — Darwin, C. R. to Sedgwick, Adam, 11 Nov 1859 Darwin writes to Sedgwick to tell …
- … Letter 2548 — Sedgwick, Adam to Darwin, C. R., 24 Nov 1859 Adam Sedgwick thanks Darwin for …
- … Letter 2555 — Darwin, C. R. to Sedgwick, Adam, 26 Nov [1859] Darwin says Sedgwick could not …
- … Letter 2526 — Owen, Richard to Darwin, C. R., 12 Nov 1859 Owen says to Darwin he will welcome …
- … Letter 2575 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, [10 Dec 1859] Darwin discusses with King' …
- … Letter 2580 — Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard, 13 Dec [1859] Darwin responds to Owen’s remarks …
On the Origin of Species
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From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
Francis Galton
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Galton was a naturalist, statistician, and evolutionary theorist. He was a second cousin of Darwin’s, having descended from his grandfather, Erasmus. Born in Birmingham in 1822, Galton studied medicine at King’s College, London, and also read mathematics…
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- … into an entirely new province of knowledge’ ( 9 December 1859 ). He soon became interested in …
Darwin and Fatherhood
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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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Women as a scientific audience
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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…
John Lubbock
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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…
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- … or against me. ( to John Lubbock, 14 December [1859] ) When Origin was …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
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- … 11 April 1833 Letter to C. R. Lyell, 11 October [1859] Letter to Charles …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … but his views were generally derided. 1 In 1859, Lyell visited several sites in …
- … that these were indeed implements of early humans (C. Lyell 1859). In September 1860 he visited …
- … in French, earlier reports written in Danish (Morlot 1859, Forchhammer et al. 1851–5); Lubbock …
- … for their work in the Brixham cave explorations of 1858 and 1859. 5 Another controversy arose …
- … its appearance in print; first in French, dated Berne, Sept. 1859, in the ‘Mémoires de la Société …
- … zoologist M. Claparède had also conversed with me in 1859 on the researches of the best Danish …
- … gave me an abstract for my use, in a letter dated December 1859. He referred me chiefly to ‘Oversigt …
- … and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate. Lyell, Charles. 1859. On the occurrence of works of …
- … vols. London: John Murray. Morlot, Charles Adolphe. 1859. Etudes géologico-archéologiques en …
- … struggle for life . By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1863. Ape …
Instinct and the Evolution of Mind
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…
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Darwin & Glen Roy
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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…
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- … [after September 20 1847] To A.C. Ramsay, 1 July [1859] From Thomas Jamieson, …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Letter 2447 - Darwin to Murray, J., [5 April 1859] Darwin asks his publisher, John …
- … Letter 2461 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [11 May 1859] Darwin expresses anxiety over …
- … Letter 2475 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [2 July 1859] Darwin returns the manuscript of …
- … Letter 2501 - Lyell, C. to Darwin, [3 October 1859] Lyell offers praise and …
Origin
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Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … across tropics ’. When Hooker’s essay was published in 1859, it was one of the first publications …
- … as by far the most capable judge in Europe. ’ By April 1859, he was able to tell Wallace that ‘ …
- … Abstract ’ would not be finished until around April 1859. But this was an optimistic estimate. …
- … of favoured races” ’, he told Lyell. On 31 March 1859, Darwin wrote to Murray describing his work …
- … the work of correcting proofs continued over the summer of 1859, Darwin had to take the water cure …
- … never shirked a difficulty’, he told Lyell on 20 September 1859, ‘ I am foolishly anxious for your …
- … of Science meeting held in Aberdeen from 14 to 21 September 1859. Darwin was confident that in time …
- … and negative, to his work flowed in. By early December 1859, he admitted that he needed to ‘ think …
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Darwin in public and private
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Extracts from Darwin's published works, in particular Descent of man, and selected letters, explore Darwin's views on the operation of sexual selection in humans, and both his publicly and privately expressed views on its practical implications…
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … Hooker has it.— Very important Hookers letter Jan. 1859 Yules Ava [Yule 1858] (Innes) Hairy …
- … The Dog in health & Disease by Stonehenge—Longman 1859 [Stonehenge 1859].— on Toy–Dogs …
- … [Combe 1828] Macclintocks Arctic Voyage [Macclintock 1859] [DAR *128: 153] …
- … [G. Bennett 1860] Read 114 Village Bells [Manning] 1859] } Fanny The Woman in White …
- … Republic [Motley 1855] [DAR 128: 24] 1859 Pagets Lectures on Pathology …
- … 1803] (nothing) [DAR 128: 25] 1859 Feb. 28 Olmstead S. States [Olmsted …
- … Mast [R. H. Dana [1840] (good) Bertrams [Trollope 1859] & Adam Bede [Eliot 1859] …
- … (many novels) Dec: Dana to Cuba & back [R. H. Dana 1859] —— Cruize in Japanese …
- … on Maladies of Silk-worm [Quatrefages de Bréau 1859] Owen Lecture on Classification [R. Owen …
- … March. 8 Houdins the conjurer Life [Robert-Houdin [1859] 19 MacClintocks Narrative …
- … Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften . In 1859 he was the coauthor, with E. Desor, …
- … des progrès de la géologie de 1834 à 1845(–1859) . 8 vols. Paris. [Vol. 1 (1847) in Darwin …
- … at sea . New York. [Other eds.] 128: 25 ——. 1859. To Cuba and back. A vacation voyage …
- … Eliot, George, pseud . (Marian Evans Cross). 1859. Adam Bede . 3 vols. Edinburgh. [Other …
- … (1849): 381–420. [Separately printed in 2 vols. (Paris, 1859) in Darwin Library.] *128: 177 …
- … 119: 16a Hodson, William Stephen Raikes. 1859. Twelve years of a soldier’s life in …
- … 1–46. 119: 9b [Jenkin, Henrietta Camilla]. 1859. Cousin Stella; or, conflict . 3 …
- … Library.] 119: 9a Macclintock, Francis Leopold. 1859. The voyage of the “Fox” in …
John Murray
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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…
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- … natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who …
- … cousin and business partner, the earliest letters date from 1859, the year of the publication of …
- … you may not repent of having undertaken it’ (15 October [1859] Letter 2506 ). Murray decided on a …
- … & proud at the appearance of my child’ ([3 November 1859] Letter 2514 ). In the event, all …
