To J. D. Hooker [3 May 1857]
Summary
JDH’s last letter demolishes woolly alpine plant theory.
Correlation of apetalous flowers and cold climate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 May 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2088 |
To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [June 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 222b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2198 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [June 1857] …
- … questions for Hooker. In the letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] , CD stated that …
- … following the letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] . The final question in this …
- … in any species is apt to be highly variable ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 [May 1857] ). …
- … See also letters to J. D. Hooker, 3 June [1857] and 5 June [1857] , in which CD expressed …
- … a neighbouring Pacific island in 1857 ( J. D. Hooker 1857 ), would presumably have known …
- … by CD in the letters to J. D. Hooker, 16 [May 1857] and 3 June [1857] . The chapter of …
To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2137 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2180 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1857] …
- … of John Stevens and Harriet Henslow . Letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 December 1857] . …
- … pp. 153–4. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] , and letter to F. J. H. …
- … 1857]. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 December 1857] . Frances Harriet Hooker was the …
- … p. 413). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] . The final results of CD’s …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857]
Summary
Rule that species vary most in larger genera seems universal.
Response to Gardeners’ Chronicle note on "Bees and kidney beans" [Collected papers 1: 275–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Nov 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2170 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857] …
- … 1847–59 from Hooker (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] , 20 October [ …
- … 1857] ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1857] . Candolle and Candolle 1824–73 . …
- … Wiegmann 1828 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1857] . John Lindley , whom Hooker …
- … 1848–]1853. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] . Letter from Henry Coe, 4 …
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1857]
Summary
Asks to borrow several Floras. Must redo calculations as John Lubbock has shown him an important error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2124 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1857] …
- … June 1847] ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 July [1857] . Boreau 1840 . Fürnrohr 1839 . …
- … 14 [July 1857] ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 July [1857] . The letter has not been …
- … For CD’s query, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 July [1857] . CD had mentioned this case of …
To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857]
Summary
Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only strongly marked varieties. Planning large-scale survey.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 206, 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2130 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857] …
- … Koch 1843–4 . Ledebour 1842–53 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 August [1857] ). …
- … Gray 1856a . J. D. Hooker 1853–5 and J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1857–8. Wollaston 1854 . …
- … Boreau 1840 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1857] . By ‘hair splitters’ CD means …
- … Hooker, 27 [June 1854] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 June 1854] . The proper dosage of chloroform had recently been the subject of discussion in various medical journals following an increase in the number of deaths resulting from its use. See letters to J. S. Henslow, 10 August [1857] , …
To J. D. Hooker 20 October [1857]
Summary
Returns some of the systematics books borrowed from JDH. Will now take on A. P. and Alphonse de Candolle [Prodromus].
Arrangements for a visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 212, 222c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2156 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 20 October [1857] …
- … enquire’. Hooker answered the query in the letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1857] . …
- … lent to him by Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] ). Ledebour 1842– …
- … 242)). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] . Letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , …
To J. D. Hooker 9 December [1857]
Summary
Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2182 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1857]
Summary
Species with marked varieties.
Dana’s pamphlet also too metaphysical for CD.
Natural selection chapter on hybridism completed.
Doubts JDH will resist theory in his introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2194 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1857] …
- … J. D. Hooker 1860 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [17–23 December 1857] and n. 5. See …
- … 1857 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [17–23 December 1857] ). In ‘Thoughts on species’ ( …
- … II). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [17–23 December 1857] . CD did not conclude his …
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1858]
Summary
Six volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus confirm rule that small genera vary less than large. Labiatae an exception to rule.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2212 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2042 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857] …
- … relationship to the letters to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] , and to T. H. Huxley, …
- … Freeman Daniell . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] . See letter to T. …
- … 1857] . William Sharpey was a secretary of the Royal Society. The letter has not been found. Recorded in CD’s Experimental book, p. 19 (DAR 157a). CD refers to the children’s story ‘The old woman and the pig’. For CD’s earlier experiments to investigate fish as a means of distributing plant seeds, see Correspondence vol. 5, letters to W. D. Fox, 7 May [1855] , and to J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1857]
Summary
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2102 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857]
Summary
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 20 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2033 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857] …
- … relationship to the letters to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] , and 20 January[1857]. …
- … See letters to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] and 20 January [1857] . CD refers to a …
- … January [1857] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 March [1857] , for an explanation of what …
- … Hooker, 7 March [1855] and 5 June [1855] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] ). Wollaston 1854 and 1856. As Thomas Vernon Wollaston remarked in the introduction of Insecta Maderensia , ‘the total absence of numerous genera (and even of whole families) which are looked upon as all but universal, constitutes one of the most striking features of our entomological fauna. ’ ( Wollaston 1854 , p. x). See also letter from T. V. Wollaston, [12 April 1857] . …
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1858]
Summary
Writing section on large and small genera [for Natural selection, ch. 4].
Huxley supersedes Owen on parthenogenesis.
Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Mar [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2248 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 6, letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 December 1857] ). Notes on Livingstone 1857 are …
- … Hooker, 23 February [1858] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [25] February [1858] ). Livingstone 1857 . …
- … 1857–61 , which CD recorded having read early in 1858 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 23). CD and Hooker had met Henry Thomas Buckle at a dinner party (see letter to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 15 March [1857]
Summary
Separation of sexes in trees [U. S.].
Do plants offer positive evidence for "continuous land" theory?
Protean genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Mar [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2066 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 15 March [1857] …
- … with those of New Zealand. ’ ( J. D. Hooker 1857 , p. 126). Hooker found this difficult …
- … in February (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [after 20 January 1857] ). CD summarised the …
- … to Asa Gray, 13 March 1857 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 December 1856 . CD and …
To J. D. Hooker [29 April 1857]
Summary
Curative power of hydropathy.
General hairiness of alpine plants questioned: direct environmental effect.
CD has long felt JDH is too hard on bad observers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Apr 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2084 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 April [1857]
Summary
Thanks JDH for response on variation. Studying variations that seem correlated with environment, e.g., north vs south, ascending mountains.
CD’s weed garden: observations on slugs killing seedlings.
Seed-salting. One-seventh of the plants of any country could be transported 924 miles by sea and would germinate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Apr [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2075 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1857]
Summary
Independence of variation from climate shown by several plant genera; CD asks for confirmation.
Progressing with book [Natural selection].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Apr [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2073 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1857]
Summary
Representative species may complicate tabulation of varieties.
Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway.
Has been writing an "audacious little discussion" to show that "organic beings are not perfect, only perfect enough to struggle with their competitors".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 211; DAR 115: 73a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2140 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1857] …
- … n. 5, below). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 August [1857] , 22 August [1857] , and 6 …
- … Johan Andersson (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 August [1857] ). CD was preparing chapter …
- … J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855 are in DAR 16.2: 230. For the final figures, see Natural selection , p. 151. Berthold Carl Seemann and his brother Wilhelm E. G. Seemann edited Bonplandia , the botanical journal of the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum . Berthold Seemann, who worked at Kew, was elected an adjunct member of the academy in 1857. …