From Henry Holland 2 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].
Remarks on development of the tapeworm.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4735 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1865]
Summary
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 269, 269b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4846 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865]
Summary
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 24–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4849 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 June 1865]
Summary
Huxley’s capital, witty letter.
Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".
Health has been very bad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4862 |
From T. H. Huxley 15 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for [E. Eudes?] Deslongchamps’ paper.
Henry Huxley born.
Leader in Reader [4 (1864): 821] is by THH. It has got him into trouble with some of his friends.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4745 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ; for the text of the note, see the letter from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] , n. 3. Hooker refers to the fact that, though Lubbock may have published on Danish shell-mounds before Lyell (see Lubbock 1861 and C. Lyell 1863a ), Lubbock’s own work was predated by that of Charles Adolphe Morlot ( Morlot 1859 ). …
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 |
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