To J. D. Hooker [before 15 February 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [before 15 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 7r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3428 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1862]
Summary
Is JDH sure it is a Bletia, just received? Its pollen very different from any Epidendreæ he has seen. If it is Bletia, Lindley’s grand divisions are fanciful.
Accepts JDH’s offer to collect cases of dimorphism.
James Bateman has sent a lot of orchids with Angraecum sesquipedale. What a proboscis the moth that sucks its 11½ inch nectary must have!
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3421 |
From Robert Bateman [28 January 1862]
Summary
For his father [James Bateman], he sends three more species of orchids and names of others described by CD.
Author: | Robert Bateman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3357 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [and 26] January [1862]
Summary
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 |
From James Bateman [1 February 1862]
Summary
Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.
Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.
Author: | James Bateman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3356 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1863
Summary
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 163–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4306 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1866]
Summary
Thanks CL for Hooker’s letter.
Discussion of Hooker’s views on glacial action and temperature with specific reference to S. America.
His squabbles with Hooker on transport of seeds via water currents,
temperate plants, and preservation of tropical plants during cooler period.
Expresses interest in seeing Agassiz’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.313) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5007 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Bateman, James. 1864. Guide to cool-orchid growing. London: Reeve & Co. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Desmond, Ray. 1999. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, traveller and plant collector. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ML : More letters …
- … James Bateman’s ‘Lecture on cool orchids’ ( ibid. , 21 May 1864, pp. 483–5) and the publication of his pamphlet on the subject ( Bateman 1864 ). Hooker had questioned how tropical species could survive a former cold period, and expressed anxiety over the lack of suitable ‘greenhouse’ temperatures during such a period (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter …
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