From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1863]
Summary
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3892 |
To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [July 1863]
Summary
Asa Gray writes as if Civil War were a holy war.
J. E. Renan on Jesus [Vie de Jésus (1863)].
Literature on tendrils of Cucurbita is contradictory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [July 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4254 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1857] and nn. 7–8). It was intended that when the collection was completed the Purbeck fossils would be transferred to Owen for description and publication ( Falconer 1857b , p. 262). Lyell apparently transferred the fossils to Owen earlier than had been arranged. Owen published descriptions of the fossils in 1871 ( Owen 1871 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1863]
Summary
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4250 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
