To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1857]
Summary
C. F. Ledebour [Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. Results generally favourable.
Additions to Down House.
Last two chapters of MS took six months to write.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2148 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 August [1857]
Summary
Tabulation of varieties goes on; very important as it shows the branching of forms. Mentions his principle of divergence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2134 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 June [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 June [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2279 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1857]
Summary
Does JDH’s Wahlenbergia confirm CD’s law? Variations of one species assume the character of a distinct but allied species or genus.
Seed-salting: old ones float and germinate.
Owen’s "grand paper" [? J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 2 (1858): 1–37].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2117 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [July 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2306 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 December [1857] ). Ebenezer Norman compiled the tables …
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 August [1857] ). Frances Harriet Hooker apparently …
- … 1857] (see Correspondence vol.7, Appendix III); and fourth, Wallace’s essay entitled ‘On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type’ (see Correspondence vol.7, Appendix IV). The Darwin family left Sussex for the Isle of Wight on 16 July 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). Emma Darwin’s diary records that they spent the night of 16 July in Portsmouth and arrived in Sandown on the evening of 17 July. See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 25 June [1857]
Summary
Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2112 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 November [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Nov [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2174 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1857]
Summary
Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2099 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 June [1857] ). CD’s annotated copy of …
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1857] ). CD’s informant was Charles …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1865 and n. 13). CD refers to Buckle 1857–61 and …
- … J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1865 and n. 27). No correspondence between CD and Seemann regarding a testimonial for a professorship has been found. Seemann proposed CD for membership in the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum (a German academy of naturalists) in 1857 ( …
To J. D. Hooker 17 January [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2040 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1864]
Summary
Requests climbing plants.
Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4517 |
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 16 September [1871]
Summary
Is preparing new edition of Origin [6th] in which he will introduce new chapter to answer Mivart’s criticisms. Mivart is unfair: suppresses facts in CD’s later editions.
Sends article [by Chauncey Wright, see 7940] reviewing Genesis of species.
Mivart writes to CD full of respect, but reviles him in print.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 204–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7949 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 September [1860]
Summary
CD has a low opinion of British entomologists.
Lyell’s ingenious difficulties with natural selection show he is in earnest.
Asks JDH to observe beetles and variation of stripes in mules on his Syrian tour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Sept [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2905 |
To J. D. Hooker 11–12 November [1856]
Summary
CD relieved by JDH’s positive response to his MS.
CD continues observations on means of transport.
JDH’s Raoul Island paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 22 (1857): 133–41], showing continuity of vegetation with New Zealand, best evidence yet of continental extension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11–12 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1986 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] , and n. 13). Emma Darwin recorded …
- … J. D. Hooker, 9 November 1856 . The Philosophical Club of the Royal Society, of which both CD and Hooker were members, met monthly. A meeting was held on 21 January 1858 ( Bonney 1919 , p. 137). Leonard Darwin , who had just turned 8, had experienced a breakdown in his health in 1857 ( …
- … 1857, during which time Lyell had geologised extensively. After his return, he reported in January 1858: ‘My tour was unusually profitable, first in the glaciers and then the volcanos. ’ (K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 279). See letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 26 [April 1858]
Summary
Confidential revelation concerning W. F. Daniell.
Georg Hartung confirms CD’s supposition from flora of Azores that icebergs had been stranded there.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Apr 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2263 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1858]
Summary
Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.
CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2282 |
To J. D. Hooker [10–]12 November [1862]
Summary
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 |
Darwin, C. R. | (81) |
Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Hooker, J. D. | (81) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |