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To J. D. Hooker   24 [November 1862]

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Sends Asa Gray letter: "nearly as mad as ever in our English eyes".

Bates’s paper is admirable. The act of segregation of varieties into species was never so plainly brought forth.

CD is a little sorry that his present work is leading him to believe rather more in the direct action of physical conditions. Regrets it because it lessens the glory of natural selection and is so confoundedly doubtful.

JDH laid too much stress on importance of crossing with respect to origin of species; but certainly it is important in keeping forms stable.

If only Owen could be excluded from Council of Royal Society Falconer would be good to put in. CD must come down to London to see what he can do.

Falconer’s article in Journal of the Geological Society [18 (1862): 348–69] shows him coming round on permanence of species, but he does not like natural selection.

Sends Lythrum salicaria diagram.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24 [Nov 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 173, 279b; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Hooker letters 2: 46 JDH/2/1/2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3822

Matches: 62 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   24 [November 1862] …
  • … letters 2: 46 JDH/2/1/2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 [Nov 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Journal of the Geological Society [18 (1862): 348–69] shows him coming round on permanence …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
  • … to proof-sheets of part of the November 1862 number of the American Journal of Science and …
  • … sheets for CD with his letter of 10 November 1862 , and apparently also enclosed a set for …
  • … see letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] ). Hooker discussed A.  Gray 1862e in his …
  • … reply to this letter (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 26 November 1862  and n.  2). …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  10, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 6 October [1862] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] ). However, he also began to suspect additional differences in …
  • … and after making almost 100 crosses in 1862, he was determined to make more in 1863 (see …
  • … ibid. , letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 27 [October 1862] and nn.  11 and 12, letter to W.   …
  • … E.  Darwin, 4 [November 1862] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). See also ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , pp.  169, …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Falconer, Hugh. 1862. On the disputed affinity of the mammalian …
  • … from the Purbeck beds. [Read 4 June 1862. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of …
  • … of diagram. — King St Leicester 17 Nov 1862 My Dear D r Hooker I need not say how glad I …
  • … See letter from Asa Gray, 10 November 1862  and n.  14. …
  • … See enclosure. Bates 1862 . The third part of volume 23 of the Transactions of …
  • … this paper appeared, was published on 13 November 1862 ( Raphael 1970 ); in his letter to …
  • … CD of [15 and] 20 November [1862] , Hooker discussed several other papers in this part of …
  • … his letter to CD of [15 and] 20 November [1862] , Hooker mentioned his having criticised …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] and n.  2. Letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [15  and] 20 November [1862] and n.  17. The reference is to John Lindley , in …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker] 1862c; see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 November 1862  and [15  …
  • … and] 20 November [1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] ). The opening sentence (p.  789) reads: ’It is not …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] and nn.  10 and 12. Richard Owen was …
  • … meeting of the society on 1  December 1862 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London …
  • … 12: 299). Hugh Falconer . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] . …
  • … Falconer 1862 . Falconer began his paper, ‘On the disputed affinity of the mammalian genus …
  • … the most accurate observers and original thinkers of our time’ ( Falconer 1862 , p.  348). …
  • … See also letter to Hugh Falconer, 14 November [1862] and nn.  7 and 9. CD refers to …
  • … that he had seen (see letter to Hugh Falconer, 1 October [1862] ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] and n.  25; the governess has not been identified. …
  • … Hooker’s letter to Bates of 13 November 1862  is reproduced in Bates 1892 , pp.  xlvi– …
  • … xlvii. See also letter from J.  D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] . In …
  • … his letter to Bates of 13 November 1862 , Hooker, who was a vice-president of the Linnean …
  • … the society to have ‘done justice’ to Bates 1862 ( Bates 1892 , p.  xlvi; see also n.  4, …
  • … society by making extensive alterations to the proofs of Bates 1862 (see letter from H.   …
  • … W.  Bates, 17 October 1862 ); Richard Kippist was librarian of the Linnean Society . …
  • … In his letter to Bates of 13 November 1862 , Hooker had criticised Bates’s attempt to …
  • … from J.  D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] and n.  6. CD, Bates, and Hooker had …
  • … this subject earlier in the year (see letters from J.   D.  Hooker, [10 March 1862] , 17  …
  • … March 1862 , and [ …
  • … 23 March 1862] , and letters to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 14 March [1862] , 18  …
  • … March [1862] , and …
  • … 26 [March 1862] ). See letter to H.   …
  • … W.  Bates, 20 November [1862] . Bates 1863 . The drawing is an enclosure to …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24 [November 1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10). Note that this …
  • … to Hooker in his letter of 24 [November 1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10) that he was …
  • … Lythrum salicaria ; see also ibid. , letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . …
  • … CD sent similar diagrams in 1862 to two other correspondents (see ibid. , ,letter to W.   …
  • … E.  Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] , and letter to Asa …
  • … Gray, [3–]4 September [1862] ). A similar diagram was published in CD’s ‘Three forms of …
  • … of Lythrum salicaria at the end of July 1862, and also began observing their pollination …
  • … see, for example, Correspondence vol.  10, letters to Asa Gray , 28 July [1862] and n.   …
  • … 16, and [3–]4 September [1862] . Most of CD’s …
  • … experiments on and observations of Lythrum for 1862, 1863, and 1864 are in DAR 27.2B; his …
  • … later work on Lythrum is in DAR 109. In 1862, as CD was counting the seeds resulting from …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …

To J. D. Hooker   11 June [1862]

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Sorry to hear of Mrs Hooker’s health and domestic problems. Wishes natural selection had produced neuters who would not flirt or marry.

Will be eager to hear Cameroon results.

Wishes JDH would discuss the "mundane glacial period". Still believes it will be "the turning point of all recent geographical distribution".

Pollen placed for 65 hours on apparent (CD still thinks real) stigma of Leschenaultia has not protruded a vestige of a tube.

"Oliver the omniscient" has produced an article in Botanische Zeitung with accurate account of all CD saw in Viola.

Asa Gray’s "red-hot" praise of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  11 June [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 155
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3597

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   11 June [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 155 Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 June [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Viola . Asa Gray’s "red-hot" praise of Orchids [ Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51]. …
  • … D.   Hooker, 16 January [1862] and 25 [ …
  • … and 26] January [1862] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). …
  • … by the juries : International Exhibition, 1862. Reports by the juries on the subjects in …
  • … Letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862 . …
  • … In his letter of 9 June 1862 , Hooker had written of Frances Harriet Hooker : ‘My wife is …
  • … to William Erasmus Darwin, [14 May 1862] , in DAR 219.1: 56) and was thus a neighbour of …
  • … DAR 242), ‘Miss Pugh came to Down’ on 5 June 1862. CD also mentioned the Hookers’ kindness …
  • … reported here, which are dated 2 June 1862, are preserved in DAR 265. See also ML 2: 257– …
  • … 63. Müller 1857 . See letter to Daniel Oliver, [before 11 June 1862] . See …
  • … letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 . CD’s allusion to politics refers to the strained …
  • … Trent affair’ (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] , letters to J.   …
  • … in the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] . Charles Paget Hooker , the Hookers’ third …
  • … child, was 7 years old. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862 . Emma and Horace …
  • … were in Southampton from 3 to 12 June 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also …
  • … letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [31 May 1862] and n.  4). Horace had been unwell earlier in …
  • … the year (see letters to W.  E.  Darwin, 14 February [1862] and …
  • … 26 April [1862] ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862 . CD refers to the International …
  • … in South Kensington, London, on 1 May 1862. Hooker was a member of the jury for class 4, …
  • … the juries ). CD was in London from 6 to 9 May 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)), and …
  • … Exhibition on 8 May (see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [8 May 1862] ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862  and n.  3. CD put forward his ideas about migration during a …
  • … with Bates and Hooker when they visited Down House in April 1862 (see letter from H.   …
  • … W.  Bates, 30 April 1862  and n.  3). However, Hooker’s work on the flora of Cameroon and …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] and n.  6). CD refers to his investigations …
  • … fertilisation in Leschenaultia (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [18 May 1862] and n.  2). …

To J. D. Hooker   29 [December 1862]

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Genera plantarum reviewed in Parthenon by a man who says JDH is disgraced by being "obviously tinged with Darwinism".

CD by chance has found that Saturday Review article [14 (1862): 589] on Duke of Argyll was written by his [CD’s] nephew, Henry Parker.

Asa Gray sends American newspapers which CD never reads.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  29 [Dec 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 175
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3881

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   29 [December 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 175 Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 [Dec 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … D. Hooker, [before 29 December 1862] ). See …
  • … letter from Asa Gray, 9 December 1862 , and letter to …
  • … James Anderson, 23 December [1862] . See …
  • … letter from Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 , and letter from …
  • … Francis Boott, 26 December 1862 . …
  • … Bibliography [Campbell, George Douglas. ] 1862. [Review of Orchids and other works. ] …
  • … Edinburgh Review 116: 378–97. [Parker, Henry. ] 1862. The Edinburgh review on the …
  • … supernatural. Saturday Review , 15 November 1862, pp. 589–90. …
  • … found that Saturday Review article [14 (1862): 589] on Duke of Argyll was written by his [ …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] , and n.  2, below. The reference has not …
  • … to the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] ; the incomplete letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [before 29 December 1862] , may be the postscript to such a letter. …
  • … The anonymous review of Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83 appeared in …
  • … the Parthenon , 27 December 1862, pp.  1102– …
  • … 3. [Parker] 1862  and [G.   …
  • … D.  Campbell] 1862 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [before 29 December 1862] and nn.  3 and 4. …
  • … copy of the issue of the Saturday Review containing [Parker] 1862 (see letter from J.   …

To J. D. Hooker   [10–]12 November [1862]

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So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.

Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.

Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.

Is working on cultivated plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [10–]12 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 169
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3801

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [10–]12 November [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 169 Charles Robert Darwin Down [10–]12 Nov [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … drinking by George Chichester Oxenden (see letters from G.  C.  Oxenden, 21 June 1862  and …
  • … 17 September [1862] ). …
  • … Collins. 1958. [Campbell, George Douglas. ] 1862. [Review of Orchids and other works. ] …
  • … more than one day (see n.  16, below). Letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 November 1862 . In …
  • … his letter to CD of 7 November 1862 , Hooker admitted having written the anonymous review …
  • … 1863b , p. [vii]). The trade sale referred to was held on 4 November 1862 ( Athenæum , …
  • … 8 November 1862, p.  595). [ …
  • … G.  D.  Campbell] 1862 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 16 September 1862  and n.  4. See n.  5, above. This disinfectant liquid …
  • … the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Tyndall, …
  • … John. 1862. On the conformation of the Alps. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin …
  • … with his letter to Hooker of 3 November [1862] a list of species of which he required …
  • … plant sensitivity and movement (see letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 26 September [1862] , 27 [ …
  • … October 1862] , and …
  • … 3 November [1862] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 25 October 1862 ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 7 November 1862  and n.  18. George Snow operated a carrier service between …
  • … Thursday ( Freeman 1978 ). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24 [November 1862] and n.  15. …
  • … The extract from Tyndall 1862  has not been identified. Charles Lyell’s book, Antiquity of …
  • … Mabberley 1985 ). In his letter of 7 November 1862 , Hooker told CD that he feared Lindley …
  • … for comparison (see letter to J.  D.   Hooker, 27 [October 1862] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 2 November 1862 ). Lindley was secretary of the Horticultural Society of …
  • … 12. Dawson 1862a . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 November 1862  and n.  12. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, 2 November 1862  and n.  13. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 November 1862 . Between 1855 and 1857, CD had carried out a number …
  • … 6). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 3 March 1862 . CD refers to glacial striations, the …
  • … as a result of the extreme cold (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 November [1862] ). In …
  • … his letter to CD of 7 November  1862 , Hooker mentioned having considered ‘the probability …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 November [1862] and n.  6. The reference is to the Shrewsbury …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 November 1862 . The reference is to John William Dawson . …
  • … above. In his letter of 4 November [1862] , CD asked Hooker for a reference to Australian …
  • … of famine. Hooker’s reply of 7 November 1862 is incomplete; however, the missing portion …

To J. D. Hooker   25 [and 26] January [1862]

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His answer to Asa Gray.

On JDH’s view of aristocracy. Primogeniture is dreadfully opposed to selection.

Orchid book proofs ready soon – has no idea whether it is worth publishing.

Huxley on Owen.

Feeble letter from J. H. Balfour against Huxley’s lectures ["Relation of man to lower animals", pt 2 of Man’s place in nature (1863)].

Has received the "astounding" Angraecum sesquipedale with nectary 1ft long: "what insect could suck it?"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  25 [and 26] Jan [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3411

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   25 [and 26] January [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 141 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 [and 26] Jan [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … to Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik 1862 (see n.  11, below). The postscript was probably …
  • … of the letter (see n.  19, below). Letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] . See …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] and nn.  8 and 9. The reference is to Jane Loring …
  • … letter from Robert Bateman, [28 January 1862] and Kritsky 1991 . See the letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [25 January 1862] , in which Hooker provided CD with a list of dimorphic plant …
  • … to procure specimens for him. CD responded to Hooker in his letter of 30 January [1862] . …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Stearn, William T. 1956. Bentham and Hooker’ …
  • … OED ). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] . The first part …
  • … of volume 1 of Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83) was published …
  • … on 7 August 1862 ( Stearn 1956 , p.  130). …
  • … Orchids was published in May 1862 ( Freeman 1977 , p.  112). …
  • … In his letter of [19 January 1862] , Hooker, commenting on Huxley’s delight at the …
  • … makes a noise’. Richard Owen . See letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 13 January 1862  and n.  5. …
  • … CD refers to Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik 1862. See also letter to T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley, 14 [January 1862] and n.  5. Letter from …
  • … J.  H.  Balfour, 14 January 1862 . J.  D.  Hooker 1862a appeared in the January issue of …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] and n.  22). The paper was published with …
  • … Linnean Society of London on 16 January 1862 ( Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … 6: lviii). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] and n.  15. See letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 February [1862] and n.  10. …
  • … William Borrer died on 10 January 1862 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] ). CD had hoped to obtain plants and seeds from him. This …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [25 January 1862] , and was thus probably added on 26 January. …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [25 January 1862] . CD thanked James Bateman for his …

To J. D. Hooker   7 March [1862]

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CD wishes he could sympathise with Asa Gray’s politics.

Orchids to appear soon.

Pre-glacial Arctic distribution.

Work on floral dimorphism.

High opinion of Buckle as a writer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  7 Mar [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 185
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3468

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   7 March [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 185 Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Mar [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … n.  3, below). See the letter from Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 , which is a reply to the …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] . CD’s letter has not been found, but see the letter …
  • … from J.  D. Hooker, 3 March 1862 . CD’s paper, ‘Three sexual forms of …
  • … before the Linnean Society of London on 3 April 1862. CD’s publisher, John Murray , issued …
  • … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. ‘Three sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum ’: …
  • … the possession of the Linnean Society. By Charles Darwin. [Read 3 April 1862. ] Journal of …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 151–7. [ Collected papers 2: 63–70. ] …
  • … the first edition of Orchids on 15 May 1862. Although favourably reviewed, the book sold …
  • … slowly. See letter to John Murray, 9 April [1862] , and Freeman 1977 , p.  112. J.  D.   …
  • … Hooker 1861a . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 3 March 1862 . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 25 February [1862] , and letters from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 27 February 1862  and …
  • … 3 March 1862 . Link 1821 . See letter from …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 27 February 1862  and n.  5. See letter …
  • … from C.  W.  Crocker, 17 February 1862 . CD’s letter has not been found. The …
  • … letters from C.  W.  Crocker, [before 13 March 1862] and …
  • … 13 March 1862  give an indication of the experiments Crocker agreed to carry out for CD. …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Freeman, …
  • … of crosses in late January and February 1862, some of the results of which were later …
  • … 431–7, letter to T.  H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] and n.  9, and Correspondence vol.   …
  • … VI). See also letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 17 June [1862] and n.  2, letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 23 June [1862] and n.   …
  • … 4, and letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] . In ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic …
  • … equal-styled variety of Primula sinensis in 1862 by observing some anomalous flowers in a …
  • … from these observations and experiments, dated 27 February – 30 March, 24 April 1862, and …
  • … 30 May 1862, are in DAR 108: 38 v. , 56–66. CD had read and greatly admired the first …

To J. D. Hooker   [18 May 1862]

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Leschenaultia seems very odd. Will try with pollen left on for 48 hours. Illustrates diversity of structures for same purpose.

Bentham’s and Oliver’s good opinion of Orchids is reassuring.

Anxious to experiment on Melastomataceae; thinks it will give important results.

Wants Leschenaultia formosa to try whether viscid outside surface can be fertilised.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [18 May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 154
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3558

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [18 May 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 154 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place [18 May 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Gardens, Kew (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). See also letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] , and letter to W.   …
  • … E.  Darwin, [8 May 1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [17 May 1862] and CD annotations. See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 [April 1862] . …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … Dated by the relationship to the letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [16 May 1862] and [ …
  • … 17 May 1862] (see nn.  2, 4, and 5, below), and by reference to the Darwins’ stay at Leith …
  • … stayed at Leith Hill Place from 15 to 22 May 1862 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol.   …
  • … 10, Appendix II)). In 1862, 18 May fell on a Sunday. See letters from …
  • … D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1862] . CD mentioned his interest in Rhododendron boothii in the …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1862] . For Hooker’s identification of CD’s specimen, …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 19 [June 1862] . There is a note describing the bent pistils …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [16  May 1862] and [ …
  • … 17 May 1862] . This point is discussed in Orchids , pp.  346–51, in a section entitled ‘ …
  • … for the same general purpose’. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [17 May 1862] . See …
  • … also letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 May 1862 , and letter from …
  • … George Bentham, 15 May 1862 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [16 May 1862] . See letter to J.   …

To J. D. Hooker   23 June [1862]

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Has been ill (violent skin inflammation).

Has done hardly anything except tend to his experiments. Repeating Primula work has verified former results and very curious facts on sterility of homomorphic seedlings.

Wonders who reviewed Orchids for London Review & Wkly J. Polit..

Asa Gray also infatuated with Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 June [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3620

Matches: 22 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   23 June [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 156 Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 June [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 28 June 1862 ). See …
  • … letters from Asa Gray , 31 March [1862] and …
  • … 18 May 1862 . See letters from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862  and …
  • … 19 [June 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 11 June [1862] . William Erasmus Darwin visited …
  • … Hooker at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 20 June 1862 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 19 [June 1862] ). …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 19 [June 1862] . The apparently terminal illness of his …
  • … had caused Hooker to declare, in his letter of 19 [June 1862] : ‘this is a weary life’. …
  • … had been sent home from school on 12 June 1862 suffering from scarlet fever (see letter to …
  • … W.  E.  Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ). CD apparently refers to repeating the crossing …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] ‘ …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … in Primula ’ . In January and February 1862, he carried out similar crossing experiments …
  • … also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 7 March [1862] and n.  10). CD’s results from the crosses …
  • … repeated his crosses with P.  veris on 1 May 1862; his notes on these experiments are in …
  • … fertilisation , p.  28. See also letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 17 June [1862] and n.   …
  • … 2, and letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] . The review of Orchids published in …
  • … of Politics, Arts, and Science 4 (1862): 553–4 was written by Miles Joseph Berkeley (see …

To J. D. Hooker   30 May [1862]

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Has received Melastoma and Vanilla.

Has seen again the two sets of plants of Heterocentron raised from two lots of pollen from same flower – a marvellous difference in stature.

"But oh Lord what will become of my book on variation: I am involved in a multiplicity of experiments."

Observations on Viola.

CD’s fancied dimorphism of Oxalis is all a confounded mistake; only great variability in length of pistils.

Found Henslow’s life [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow (1862)] interesting but fears the public will think it dull.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  30 May [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 152
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3575

Matches: 22 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   30 May [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 152 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 May [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow (1862)] interesting but fears the public will …
  • … The year is established by the reference to Jenyns 1862 (see n.  8, below). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [29 May 1862] and n.  3. See letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1862] and n.  7. See letters …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 April 1862] and [ …
  • … 29 May 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] …
  • … 1861] and 7 December [1861] ). See letters to Daniel Oliver , 20 [April 1862] and …
  • … 24 April [1862] , and letter from …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 23 April 1862 . See n.  7, above. …
  • … Jenyns, Leonard. 1862. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, late rector of Hitcham, …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 [April 1862] . CD refers to the account of variation in domesticated plants …
  • … in Primula ’ ([Oliver] 1862c) (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April  1862 ). See …
  • … also letters to Daniel Oliver , 12 [April 1862] and …
  • … 15 April [1862] . There are notes by CD on his experiments …
  • … with Viola in DAR 111: 3–5, dated 28 May and 30 May 1862. …
  • … Jenyns 1862 . John Stevens Henslow , Hooker’s father-in-law, died in …
  • … May 1861. See also letter to Leonard Jenyns, 24 May [1862] and n.  2. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [29 May 1862] . In the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 November [1861] ( …

To J. D. Hooker   26 July [1862]

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Illness of his son [Leonard]. Has done no work for weeks.

JDH’s hybrid orchids are interesting; CD is surprised many hybrids are not produced.

George [Darwin] caught a moth sucking Gymnadenia conopsea with a pollen-mass of Habenaria bifolia sticking to it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  26 July [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 159
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3666

Matches: 24 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   26 July [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 159 Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 July [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 July 1862] and n.  1. Leonard Darwin was recovering …
  • … s diary (DAR 242); see also letter to Daniel Oliver, 24 July [1862] , letter to M.   …
  • … T. Masters, 24 July [1862] , letter to W.   …
  • … E.  Darwin, [24 July 1862] , and letter to Asa …
  • … Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ). CD may have intended to …
  • … see letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ); petechiae are red or purple spots on the …
  • … Gymnadenia conopsea (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 30 [June 1862] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] ). In DAR 70: …
  • … 30 there is a note, dated 21 June 1862, that states that George had seen the moth Plusia …
  • … CD’s experiments, see, for instance, the letters to J.  D. Hooker, 30 May [1862] and n.   …
  • … 7, and 23 June [1862] and n.  4, …
  • … the letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 17 June [1862] and n.  2, and the letter to M.   …
  • … T. Masters, 8 July [1862] and n.  3. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 July 1862] . CD refers to the review of the first volume of the …
  • … 1: 373–5 (see also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 July 1862] and n.  8). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 July 1862] . The reference is to the last page of the April issue …
  • … errors. The last page of the April 1862  number of the Natural History Review concluded …
  • … stations’ ( Natural History Review n.s.  2 (1862): 346). CD’s letter has not been found. …
  • … Hookers had been on holiday in Switzerland from 4 to 23 July 1862 (see letters from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 2 July 1862 , 10  …
  • … July 1862 , and [ …
  • … 24 July 1862] ). George Howard Darwin had made observations in June on the insects …

To J. D. Hooker   24 December [1862]

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Thanks for Dawson’s letter. Doubts his evidence that climate of land was not glacial when upheaved after submergence.

Encloses memorandum of questions for C. V. Naudin.

Expression of the emotions.

Is building a hothouse for plant experimenting.

JDH’s ideas on America are more atrocious than his. What a new idea that struggle for existence is necessary to try to purge a government! Probably true. Slavery draws him one way one day, another the next. Yankees are "detestable toward us". Tocqueville.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24 Dec [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 177
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3875

Matches: 21 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   24 December [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 177 Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Dec [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … With his letter to CD of [21 December 1862] , Hooker had enclosed a letter, now missing, …
  • … of North America. See letter from J.  D. Hooker, 2 November 1862 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 4 November [1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … result of natural selection (see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [23 March 1862] , [15 and] …
  • … 20 November [1862] , and …
  • … 26 November 1862 ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] . CD read Tocqueville 1836  in February 1849 (see …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] . Emma and William Erasmus Darwin . …
  • … D.  Hooker, [ 21 December 1862] . Neither CD’s ‘memorandum’ nor Charles Victor Naudin’s …
  • … see letter from C.  V.  Naudin, 26 June 1862 ). See also Correspondence vol.  11, letter …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] and n.  6. Augustus Frederick Oldfield . …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] and n.  5. CD’s work on the expression of …
  • … heated glass case (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, [21 December 1862] and n.  2). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] . Hooker and Asa Gray held radically different …
  • … in their letters (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] , and letter from …
  • … Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 ). CD refers to Hooker’s whimsical suggestion that he would …
  • … Hooker’s letter to CD of [27 or 28 December 1862] , but have not been found. However, in …
  • … 11, letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 January [1862] and 15 February [1863] , and letter to …

To J. D. Hooker   15 [May 1862]

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Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.

Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 [May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 151
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3548

Matches: 21 hits

  • … For Hooker’s reply to CD’s request, see the letter from J.  D.   Hooker, 23 May 1862 . …
  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   15 [May 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 151 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place 15 [May 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 1 May [1862] ), and had apparently sent him specimens at …
  • … Hooker’s request (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [5 May 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker , was director of the …
  • … detailed note on this subject, dated 16 May 1862, in DAR 49: 77–8. Hooker had collected …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Hooker, …
  • … See also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [17 May 1862] . Hooker’s comments may have been made …
  • … the Linnean Society meeting of 3 April 1862. The reference is apparently to the results of …
  • … roseum between October 1861 and January 1862. The results of these experiments, showing …
  • … the crimson anthers, are recorded in a note dated 3 February 1862 (DAR 205.8: 46; see also …
  • … letter to George Bentham, 3 February [1862] ). The reference is probably to John Horwood , …
  • … p.  158. There is a note recording this observation, dated 14 May 1862, in DAR 205.8: 49. …
  • … similar observations on 30 May and 9 August 1862 (see DAR 205.8: 49–50). CD had observed …
  • … Monochaetum ensiferum changed over time (see letters to Asa Gray , 16 February [1862] and …
  • … 15 March [1862] ). For CD’s attempts to understand the significance of these changes, see …
  • … Appendix IV, and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). The Darwins stayed at the home …
  • … Josiah Wedgwood III , from 15 to 22 May 1862 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and ‘ …
  • … 27 April [1860] ). There is a note, dated May 1862, describing CD’s observation on R.   …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Post Office London directory : Post-Office …

To J. D. Hooker   14 [October 1862]

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Thanks for Aldrovanda reference and Cassia.

Has wasted labour on Melastomataceae without getting a glimpse of the meaning of the parts.

Wants seeds, from their native land, of Heterocentron or Monochaetum.

Is beginning to change his view about rarity of natural hybrids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  14 [Oct 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 166
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3762

Matches: 27 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   14 [October 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 166 Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 [Oct 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … occurring orchid hybrids in his letter to CD of [24 July 1862] . See n.  5, above. …
  • … Letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [12 October 1862] . The first part of …
  • … the first volume of Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83) was published …
  • … on 7 August 1862 ( Stearn 1956 , p.  130); CD’s lightly annotated copy of this work is in …
  • … crossing experiments performed in 1861 and 1862 with the dimorphic Primula sinensis (see ‘ …
  • … the homologies of plant parts (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n.   …
  • … 4, and letter to Daniel Oliver, 13 October [1862] and n.  7). See letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 11 September [1862] and n.  1; see also letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 16 September 1862 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [18 September 1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker [12 October 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 6 October [1862] and n.  14. See letter …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Godron, …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
  • … p.  321. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n.  2. CD’s note has not …
  • … in response to CD’s letter of 26 September [1862] , in which CD gave an account of his …
  • … been found, but see the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 6 October [1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n.  5. …
  • … In a note dated 14 October 1862 (DAR 205.8: 4), CD recorded: ‘Hooker says Cassia ( …
  • … of anthers in Lupinus nanus , dated 5 August 1862, in DAR 76: 92, and further notes in DAR …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n.  18. In October 1861, CD had begun to …
  • … continued to work on the family throughout 1862 and 1863 without ultimately being able to …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [12 October 1862] and n.  11. CD was keen to test the commonly held …
  • … CD carried out such experiments between 1862 and 1867 (see the experimental notes in DAR …
  • … Primula ’ ). Between 7 October and 11 December 1862, CD wrote a draft section of Variation …

To J. D. Hooker   9 February [1862]

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Thanks JDH for box of melastomes

and a very valuable reference from Daniel Oliver.

Is crossing Monochaetum which he thinks is dimorphic.

Is "sometimes half tempted to give up species & stick to experiments".

Pollen of Bletia hyacinthina is quite unlike other Bletia species but exactly the same as Epipactis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  9 Feb [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 143
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3440

Matches: 21 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   9 February [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 143 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Feb [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … 1861 (see Stearn 1956 , p.  129; see also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] ). …
  • … the references to Bates 1863  and Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83 (see nn.  13 and 14, below). …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [8 February 1862] . CD had sent a diagram of Heterocentron to …
  • … had declined to assist (see letter to George Bentham, 3 February [1862] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] ). CD had asked for flowers of this plant in his letter to …
  • … of London. Bates 1863 . See letter from H.  W.  Bates, 25 January 1862 , letter to H.   …
  • … W.  Bates, 31 January [1862] , letter to John …
  • … Murray, 28 January [1862] , and letter from …
  • … John Murray, 30 January [1862] . …
  • … Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83. CD regretted the length of time the project would take to …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Stearn, William T. 1956. Bentham and Hooker’ …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [1 January 1862] ). Daniel Oliver had supplied CD with a …
  • … letter from Daniel Oliver, [4–8 February 1862] ). Plus minusve sigmoides: ‘more or less …
  • … with Monochaetum ensiferum on 7 February 1862, using a plant belonging to his neighbour …
  • … 41. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [31 January – 8 February 1862] . In his letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 30 January [1862] , CD had discussed the apparently atypical pollen of a …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 30 January [1862] and n.  2. In Orchids, p.  269, CD reported …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [31 January – 8 February 1862] . In the letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [31 January – 8 February 1862] , Hooker mentioned an incident involving …

To J. D. Hooker   11 September [1862]

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Has passed the time by dissecting flowers of Cruciferae. Sends results, with diagrams, to JDH.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  11 Sept [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 162
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3721

Matches: 22 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   11 September [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 162 Charles Robert Darwin Bournemouth 11 Sept [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … 52–3). CD returned to Down on 30 September 1862 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol.  10, …
  • … letter from Edouard Claparède, 6 September 1862  and n.  7. The reference is to Clémence …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [26–31 August 1862] . The reference is to the botanical collector, Gustav …
  • … which Hooker co-authored with George Bentham (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83), was published …
  • … on 7 August 1862 ( Stearn 1956 , p.  130). …
  • … annotated copy of Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: …
  • … Royer , who translated and edited the first French edition of Origin (Royer trans.  1862). …
  • … The Darwins spent September 1862 on holiday in Bournemouth (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence …
  • … recovering from scarlet fever (see letter to John Lubbock, 2 September [1862] and n.  4). …
  • … The Hookers left London for Scotland on 23 August 1862, and returned …
  • … on 16 September 1862 (see letters from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [26–31 August 1862] and …
  • … 16 September 1862 ). Hooker had attended the wedding of his niece, …
  • … to James Campbell , which took place in Glasgow on 4 September 1862 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [26–31 August 1862] and n.  7). CD probably refers to …
  • … see letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , and CD’s Classed account book (Down House …
  • … of the wedding in the issue of 9 September 1862. Frances Harriet Hooker had been ill for …
  • … several months (see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862  and …
  • … 20 August 1862  and n.  3). Letter from …

To J. D. Hooker   [21 December 1862]

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Thanks for Begonia and Oxalis.

Keeps obstinate about crossing and could argue till doomsday, but will not bother JDH.

Sees that JDH has finished Welwitschia.

Thinks Huxley’s Working Men’s Lectures excellent.

Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105],

and abstract of Bates’s paper for Natural History Review,

and has begun to arrange concluding chapters [for Variation]. Is paralysed on how to begin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [21 Dec 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 174
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3871

Matches: 16 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [21 December 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 174 Charles Robert Darwin Down [21 Dec 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and nn.  13 and 19, and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [14 December 1862] and n.  5. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [14 December 1862] and nn.  10 and 12. See …
  • … of the Natural History Review. See also letters from John Lubbock , 15 December 1862  and …
  • … 18 December 1862 , and letter to …
  • … John Lubbock, 16 [December 1862] . According to his ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol.  10, …
  • … modes of reproduction and variation’ ( Variation 1: 373–411) on 21 December 1862. …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [14 December 1862] and n.  6. …
  • … The Gardeners’ Chronicle of 20 December 1862, p.  1194, reported that Hooker had read his …
  • … 18 December. See also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] and n.  4. T.  H.   …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 26 November 1862 . For CD’s opinion of Huxley’s lectures, see …
  • … the letters to T.  H.  Huxley, 7 December [1862] and …
  • … 18 December [1862] . According to his ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol.   …
  • … forms in species of Linum ’ on 11 December 1862. ‘Review of Bates on mimetic butterflies’ …

To J. D. Hooker   18 March [1862]

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On effect of external conditions: CD thinks all variability due to changes in conditions of life because there is more variability under unnatural domestic conditions than under nature, and changed conditions affect the reproductive organs. But why one seedling out of thousands presents some new character transcends the wildest powers of conjecture.

Not shaken by "saltus" – he had examined all cases of normal structure resembling monstrosities which appear per saltum. Has fought his tendency to attribute too much to natural selection; perhaps he has too much conquered it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  18 Mar [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 145
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3479

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   18 March [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 145 Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Mar [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … consulted by the Darwin family. See also letter from Henry Holland, 26 March [1862] . …
  • … to the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 17 March 1862 . Edward James Herbert , third earl of …
  • … Hall, Shropshire (see letter from J.  D. Hooker, 17 March 1862  and n.  13). Letter from …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 17 March 1862 . …
  • … With his letter of [10 March 1862] , Hooker enclosed a letter from Henry Walter Bates . CD …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 14 March [1862] and n.  9. CD refers to Hooker’s eldest child, William …
  • … see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 14 February [1862] ). Stephen Paul Engleheart was the …
  • … Office directory of the six home counties 1862). Henry Holland , a London physician, was …
  • … Bates’s was a reply (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, 14 March [1862] ). See letters to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 24 [November 1862] and [after …
  • … 26] November [1862] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 26 November 1862 . CD devoted a whole chapter in Variation to a discussion of …
  • … 1: 513–23). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 14 March [1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 17 March 1862  and n.  7. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, 17 March 1862  and n.  10. See letter …

To J. D. Hooker   12 [December 1862]

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Maintains his view on crossing. Thinks practical breeders would agree with him; doubts that variability and domestication are at all necessarily correlative.

Identical plants in different conditions a heavy argument against "direct action" [of physical conditions].

His 1000-pigeon case is altered if long-beaked are in least degree sterile with short-beaked.

His work on dimorphism inclines him to believe that sterility is at first a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct.

Case of easy modification of Lythrum pollen to favour or prevent crossing.

Monsters.

Has just finished chapter on variations of cultivated plants.

Edinburgh doctors have sent him Diploma of Medical Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  12 [Dec 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 176
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3855

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   12 [December 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 176 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 [Dec 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … is apparently to the letter from Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [14 December 1862] ). …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, [after 26] November [1862] , has not been found. According to his ‘ …
  • … Garden, Edinburgh; he began to correspond with CD on 11 November 1862 (see letter from …
  • … John Scott, 11 November 1862 ). The enclosure has not been found; it apparently contained …
  • … wild gooseberry (see letter from J.  D. Hooker, [14 December 1862] and n.  10). See letter …
  • … from C.  W.  Crocker, 24 November 1862  and n.  1. The reference has not been identified. …
  • … Variation 1: 1). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 26 November 1862 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [after 26] November [1862] . CD discussed variation under domestication in the …
  • … food. ’ See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [after 26] November [1862] , and Variation 2: 420–4. …
  • … made a note to this effect on 18 December 1862; the note is preserved in DAR 205.7: 163 ( …
  • … his letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24 [November 1862] , CD sent a diagram illustrating what he …
  • … Lythrum salicaria . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 26 November 1862 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [after 26] November [1862] . Possibly a reference to the plates in Geoffroy …
  • … Variation , between 7 October and 11 December 1862. The journal also records that he wrote …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] , and letter from …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 25 November 1862 ). See …
  • … letter to Pickard & Stoneman, 1 December [1862] . CD required the plant case so that he …
  • … sensitivum ; see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 26 November 1862 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, [after 26] November [1862] ). Cohn 1860 ; see letter to T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley, 7 December [1862] and n.  10. CD had begun his experiments with the …
  • … further with the plant in September 1862, CD had come to the conclusion that it must …
  • … had preceded him (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26 September [1862] , and letter to T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley, 7 December [1862] ). CD refers to Dutrochet 1837 . According to his library …

To J. D. Hooker   18 [November 1862]

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A German scholar says JDH first applied natural selection to replacement of races of men, the ruder races of Polynesians yielding to civilised Europeans. CD cannot remember reading this.

Warns JDH to take care Welwitschia does not turn into a case of barnacles and consume years instead of months.

In what months do flowers appear in Acropera loddigesia and A. luteola? CD is alarmed by John Scott’s observations on them, which differ from his own. "I am very uneasy."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  18 [Nov 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 170
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3812

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   18 [November 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 170 Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 [Nov 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … 1836 . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 12 November 1862  and n.  5. Samuel Haughton . …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 November [1862] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 12 November 1862 . CD refers to Richard Francis Burton and Gustav Mann . …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 12 November 1862  and nn.  7  …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
  • … Büchner, Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig. 1862. Aus Natur und Wissenschaft. Studien, …
  • … and 8. Büchner 1862 , pp.  249–50; there is a copy of this work in the Darwin Library– …
  • … Leipzig. [Campbell, George Douglas. ] 1862. [Review of Orchids and other works. ] …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … letter to Ludwig Büchner, 17 November [1862] . Hooker was preparing a monograph on the …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 2 November 1862 ). In a letter that is now missing (L.  Huxley …
  • … correspondence (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ). …
  • … Letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 . ‘Tincture of Iodine’ is used to check for the …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 August 1862  and n.  12. CD wished to compare a seed- …
  • … orchid tribe to which Vanda belongs (see letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). [G.   …
  • … D.  Campbell] 1862 ; there is an annotated copy of this publication in the Darwin Pamphlet …

To J. D. Hooker   6 October [1862]

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Thanks for opinion on Drosera. After working for a time on a subject he is absolutely incapable of judging its value.

Has found a case in Lythrum of a necessary triple alliance between three hermaphrodites; the strangest case of propagation recorded among plants or animals.

Asks for L. thymifolia to see how a trimorphic form passes or graduates into dimorphic.

Questions JDH on Linum perenne.

Has found 33 hybrids in one field between Verbascum thapsus and V. lychnitis. The perfect series of varieties would have justified running the species together, but every one of the intermediate forms is sterile.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  6 Oct [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 164
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3753

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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   6 October [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 164 Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Oct [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … s response to CD’s letter of 26 September [1862] has not been found. CD’s work on the …
  • … at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. See letters to Daniel Oliver , 29 [July 1862] , 2  …
  • … September [1862] , and [ …
  • … 17 September 1862] . There are dated notes from …
  • … CD’s experiments with Lythrum salicaria during the summer of 1862 in DAR 27.2. …
  • … plant (see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 4 [July 1862] and n.  4). In consequence, he searched …
  • … on this subject, dated 4, 6, and 16 October 1862, are in DAR 108: 3–4; he reported his …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. ‘Specific difference in Primula ’: On the …
  • … See letters to Daniel Oliver , 14 September [1862] and n.   …
  • … 3, and [17 September 1862] and n.  3. Vaucher 1841 , 2: 371. ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
  • … had intended to display the plant at the 1862 meeting of the British Association for the …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 16 September 1862 ). The reference is to one of Frances …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 August 1862  and n.  4). CD had suggested to Oliver …
  • … the Natural History Review (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 24 July [1862] , and letter from …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 28 July 1862 ). In the event, Hooker wrote the review ([J.  D.   …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 7 November 1862 ). CD refers to the botanical bibliography …
  • … out crossing experiments in the summer of 1862 on L.  perenne and L.  grandiflorum ; the …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 22 [August 1862] and n.  16). See also Correspondence vol.  10, …
  • … the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in May 1862, for use in CD’s experiments on the possible …
  • … in the Melastomataceae (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [29 May 1862] and n.  3). …
  • … There are notes dated 2 October 1862 in DAR 205.8: 54, which record the results …
  • … experiments carried out in June and July 1862 on a specimen from Kew of the melastomaceous …
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…

Matches: 28 hits

  • … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
  • … be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
  • … him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
  • … Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
  • … but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
  • … but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
  • … him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
  • … is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
  • … with his study of  Primula  and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
  • … 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
  • … in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
  • … telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
  • … great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
  • …  labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
  • … of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
  • … sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
  • …  case he determined to experiment on  Linum  in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
  • … be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
  • … Linum  ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
  • … complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
  • … who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
  • … the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
  • … pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he worried about the resulting …
  • … the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his son, William, his …
  • … every  flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I never before felt half so …
  • … he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). But he did not have long to wait. ‘It is …
  • … it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862).  Orchids  was published on 15 May, …
  • … all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). a flank-movement on the …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a …
  • … edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of the …
  • … of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn some of these …
  • … in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he mentioned that he was sending …
  • … from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition incorporating …

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

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  • … in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
  • … cause. Tension.   THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
  • … 1856 33  C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34  JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
  • … 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
  • … 10 JUNE 1861 121  A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122  JD HOOKER TO C …
  • … 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125  A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
  • … 7 JULY 1863 152 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, DECEMBER 1862 153  JD HOOKER TO C …
  • … 1861 163  C Darwin TO A Gray, 16 OCTOBER 1862 164  C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863  greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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  • … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
  • …  vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, …
  • … a construction suitable for tropical plants. In 1861 and 1862, while preparing  Orchids , he was …
  • …  vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, Darwin purchased for …
  • … over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence  vol. 10) …
  • … Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties  1862). 3.  Asclepias curassavica. …

I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]

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  Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.

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  • … Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …

Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870

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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…

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  • … towards your doctrines … Huxley to Darwin, 1862. I cannot bear the thought …
  • … … Darwin to Asa Gray, in Boston, Mass., 1862. I have been greatly …

Clémence Auguste Royer

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Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile  Pierre…

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  • … her translation of Origin. First published in 1862, Royer’s translation of …
  • … “I received 2 or 3 days ago”, he told Asa Gray in 1862 , “a French Translation of the Origin by a …
  • … criticisms of her work always made reference to her sex. In 1862, Edouard Claparede wrote to …

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 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
  • … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
  • … 3681  - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
  • … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
  • …  - Darwin to Wedgwood, K. E. S, M. S. & L. C., [4 August 1862] Darwin thanks his “angel …

Floral Dimorphism

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…

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  • … Letter 3468 - Darwin to JD Hooker, 7 March 1862 Darwin wishes he could sympathize with Asa …
  • … Letter 3515 - Daniel Oliver to Darwin, 23 April 1862 Daniel Oliver, an assistant under …
  • … Letter 3757 - Joseph Dalton Hooker to Darwin, 12 October 1862 J. D. Hooker writes to …

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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  • … 1 October [1861] To Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] To Charles Lyell, 14 October …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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  • … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

Orchids

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…

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  • … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles 1862. On the various contrivances by which …
  • … 3421 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 30 January 1862 Darwin tells Hooker about a …
  • … Letter 3662 —Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 23-4 July 1862 Darwin tells Asa Gray, a professor …
  • … Darwin’s work with orchids and Chapter 1 of Darwin’s 1862 book On the various …

Forms of flowers

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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…

Matches: 6 hits

  • … briefly mentioned in his Primula paper. In July 1862, Darwin explained to Gray, ‘ I have …
  • … of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the …
  • … to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun researching in 1862 after Hooker had supplied him with …
  • … of Lythrum he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has …
  • … of the crossing experiments immediately, but by October 1862, he admitted to Hooker, ‘ I am rather …
  • … 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting in November 1862, telling him, ‘ Next year I shall …

Dining at Down House

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…

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  • … Letter 3626 —Emma Darwin to T. G. Appleton, 28 June [1862] Here Emma writes on her husband’s …
  • … Letter 3597 —Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 11 June [1862] Among bits of family news and …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

Matches: 4 hits

  • … on  Verbascum.  Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
  • … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
  • … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
  • …  vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …

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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  • … [1859] Letter to Charles Kingsley, 6 February [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, …

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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  • … all of their education in the home, although he noted in 1862 that his fifteen-year-old daughter …
  • … her own wish’ (Darwin to his son William,  30 [October 1862] ). Darwin frequently discussed the …

Species and varieties

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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…

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  • … about whether sterility could be ‘selected’. In 1862, he told Hooker, ‘I am now strongly inclined to …
  • … species distinct’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). In 1866, Darwin compared the …

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…

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  • … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …

Sexual selection

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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species.  So what…

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  • … the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …
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