To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1874]
Summary
Quite agrees with JDH on inadvisability of Huxley’s taking on the Edinburgh lectures.
Is awaiting JDH’s memorial to the Board [of Works?] on his burdensome duties.
Glad to hear JDH finds ease in his work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 345–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9734 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 November 1874
Summary
Encloses a letter [from Huxley about his invitation to lecture at Edinburgh]. Has done his best to dissuade Huxley from accepting the burden.
JDH’s depression in bereavement.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 228–9; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/1/14/f. 54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9732 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. and Harriet Hooker had stayed with CD at Down from 19 to 23 November 1874 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)) following Frances Harriet Hooker’s death on 13 November 1874 (see L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 190). Over the summers of 1873 and 1874, Julius Victor Carus lectured in place of Charles Wyville Thomson , who was away on the Challenger expedition from 1872 …
From H. W. Bates 1 October 1874
Summary
Notes that Mr[s] Barber’s communication [forwarded by CD] will be published because of more striking than usual facts ["Notes on … larva and pupa of Papilio nireus", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1874): 519–21].
Encloses Thomas Belt’s address.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9666 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1872, and as treasurer from 1873 to 1875 ( ODNB ). Mary Elizabeth Barber’s paper ‘Notes on the peculiar habits and changes which take place in the larva of Papilio Nireus ’ was communicated by CD, and appeared in Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ( Barber 1874 ). Barber described the pupae of Papilio nireus , the green-banded swallowtail butterfly, assuming the colour of their particular surroundings. The paper had been sent to CD by Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter from J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker 28 November 1874
Summary
Huxley feels he can accept the Edinburgh lecture invitation.
Also tells JDH he is preparing a paper for Linnean Society on classification which will uphold evolution ["On the classification of the animal kingdom", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 199–226]. He has thrown overboard all his old ideas of definite demarcation. He will make a clean breast of it, and will bear hard on necessity of all such ideas as Haeckel’s in dealing with systematic zoology.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 230–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9736 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 25 November 1874 and n. 1. Hooker refers to Thomas Henry Huxley . For an account of the fifty-four zoology lectures delivered by Huxley in the summer sessions of 1875 and 1876, see University of Edinburgh Journal 10 (1939–40): 210–12. Huxley, like Julius Victor Carus before him, was standing in for Charles Wyville Thomson , who was away on the Challenger expedition from 1872 …
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| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
