To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1859]
Summary
Hopes Murray will publish after seeing MS [of Origin].
Demurs at JDH’s saying that CD changes climate to account for migration of bugs, flies, etc. "We do nothing of the sort; for we rest on scored rocks, old moraines, arctic shells, and mammifers." Has given up the Lyellian doctrine as insufficient to explain all changes in climate; CD has no theory about the cause of the cold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2440 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace to J. D. Hooker 6 October 1858
Summary
Thanks JDH and Lyell for the actions they have taken with respect to ARW’s and CD’s papers. Considers himself fortunate to have been given any merit for his work. Is pleased that his correspondence has led to the earlier publication of CD’s work. It would have caused him "much pain & regret" if CD had made ARW’s paper public unaccompanied by his own views.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct 1858 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2337 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1859]
Summary
Sends MS [of Origin] on geographical distribution. Wants JDH to correct facts and say what he most vehemently objects to.
Has received JDH’s note on plant embryology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2429 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1859] …
- … Hooker that he has learned so much from him, and followed up so many of his suggestions, that he may have inadvertently adopted views for which Hooker should receive the credit. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] . …
- … J. D. Hooker, 9 November 1856 ). In this chapter, CD described his theory of the origins of Arctic and alpine distribution patterns and the migration of northern plants through the tropics during a former cold period. This material formed the first of two chapters on geographical distribution in Origin . The second chapter was written for Origin early in 1859. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [9 March 1859] . …
From J. D. Hooker [20 December 1859]
Summary
Forwards letter from Asa Gray.
Bentham is very agitated by Origin. CD over-emphasises natural selection. His theory accounts for too much and would be improved by unburdening it of natural selection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 180–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2589 |
To Charles Lyell 27 [December 1859]
Summary
Mentions William Clift ["Report in regard to the fossil bones found in New Holland", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 10 (1830–1): 394–6].
Discusses relations between fossil and living types.
Discusses Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae]. Criticises Hooker’s views on flora of rising and sinking islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 27 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.187) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2608 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Naudin 1852 . See letters to J. D. Hooker, 23 [December 1859] and 25 [December 1859] , …
- … Hooker 1859 , p. viii. The passage is marked in CD’s copy of the work in the Darwin Library–CUL, next to which CD wrote in pencil, ‘without selection doubtful’. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 [December 1859] . …
To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1859]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on finishing his introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
Lyell’s position on mutability appears more positive in his letters to JDH than in those to CD. Considers JDH a convert.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Oct 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2509 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1859] …
- … letter, but see letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 October [1859] , for two of his suggestions. [ …
- … Hooker evidently referred to those parts of his essay that dealt with the fossil flora of Australia ( Hooker 1859 , pp. c–cvi). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 October or 3 November 1859] . …
To Williams and Norgate 16 January [1860]
Summary
Orders J. E. Tennent’s work on Ceylon [Sir James Emerson, afterwards Tennent, Ceylon, an account of the island, physical, historical, and topographical (1859)], and Richard Owen’s Classification and distribution of Mammalia [1859].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2653 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 January [1859]
Summary
CD not convinced that naturalisation of European plants abroad is strictly dependent on creation by agriculture of disturbed ground.
More than half through his chapter on geographical distribution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2406 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 April [1859]
Summary
Thanks for letter of caution about Murray. He has offered to publish without seeing MS. CD thinks book will be popular to a certain extent. Lyell’s inducing Murray to publish Origin grates CD’s pride.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2446 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 December [1858]
Summary
Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2388 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1855 , 2: 1321. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 May [1859] . Gärtner 1844 , p. 104. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 22 December 1858 and [26 December 1858] . There is an incomplete draft of this letter in DAR 205.9 (Letters) dated ‘Dec. 30 th ’: the date was subsequently deleted and ‘Jan 1 1859’ …
- … J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1858] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 December 1858] . Hooker touched on this point in his introductory essay on the flora of Australia ( Hooker 1859 , …
To J. D. Hooker 22 [June 1859]
Summary
CD making extensive corrections on proofs of Origin. Worries that style is too dry.
Doubts about Joseph Prestwich’s discovery [of flint tools].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [June 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2471 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1860]
Summary
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2635 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [20 December 1859] . …
- … 1859, pp. 1051–2, had been written by the editor, John Lindley . It was printed in the opening columns of the Gardeners’ Chronicle that were normally reserved for the editor’s comments. In fact, Hooker was the author (see letter to J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 14 December [1859]
Summary
CD’s great satisfaction with JDH’s approval of Origin. The book has been extremely successful. Reactions of Asa Gray, Lyell, Bentham, and J. E. Gray.
Not one friend has noticed his pet bit in Origin: embryology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2583 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 November 1880
Summary
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 496–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12841 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1859]
Summary
CD has written to Asa Gray criticising J. D. Dana’s arguments for a warm period subsequent to glacial period.
Remembers it is Alphonse de Candolle who states that many species are not true species.
Did Huxley write the excellent review in the Times?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2610 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 January [1859]
Summary
Wallace has written and is well satisfied with the joint presentation.
CD requests some facts to make case in his abstract for former glacial action in Himalayas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Jan [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2403 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1859]
Summary
JDH half through Origin. High praise for facts and reasoning.
Lyell told JDH his criticisms: small matters JDH did not appreciate.
Reactions of G. Bentham, J. S. Henslow, and C. C. Babington.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 137–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2579 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 March [1859]
Summary
Will finish last chapter (except recapitulation) tomorrow.
Pleased with JDH’s response to geographical distribution chapter;
CD disagrees with Lyell’s view that glacial epoch is connected with position of continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2432 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1863
Summary
JDH delivers CD’s letter to C. V. Naudin.
Neither Naudin nor Decaisne appreciates Origin.
Discusses Naudin on physiological causes of species formation;
Decaisne on plant heredity.
JDH on Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3940 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 [March] 1864
Summary
Reception of Scott’s paper.
Difficulty of writing Boott’s obituary.
Critical of Edward Frankland’s glacial theory.
Falconer’s and Ramsay’s views on Himalayan lakes lack support of basic evidence.
Taxonomic distribution of climbing plants.
Huxley picks quarrels with minor figures and thus magnifies them.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 [Mar] 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 189–92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4404 |
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