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From J. D. Hooker   [9 March 1859]

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Outlines the basic categories of phanerogams.

Places Gymnospermae in the dicotyledons.

Evaluates the variable utility of embryological characters in plant classification.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [9 Mar 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 152–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2428

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   [9 March 1859] …
  • Hooker’s ‘note on embryology’. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 11 March [1859] . See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] . …
  • Hooker was one of the few botanists who believed that the Coniferae were highly developed plants in taxonomic terms. See Correspondence vol.  6, letter from J.  D. Hooker, 22 November 1856 . Hooker 1859 . …

From J. D. Hooker   [15 March 1863]

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JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [15 Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 117–20
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4040

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  • … 420, Lyell referred to Hooker’s assertion in J.  D. Hooker 1859 , p.  viii, that ‘species …
  • … and n.  17. Hooker’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniæ ( J.  D.  Hooker 1859 ) was …
  • … published in June, 1859’. Hooker’s Flora Tasmaniæ ( J.  D.  Hooker 1860a ) was published …
  • J.  D.  Hooker, [24 March 1863] ). He was apparently misled by an erroneous statement on the first page of J.  D.  Hooker 1859 , …
  • Hooker, on the theory of “Creation by variation” as applied to the vegetable kingdom’, in which he discussed J.  D.  Hooker 1859 . Hooker was mistaken in his recollection (see n.  7, above, letter to J.  D.   …

From J. D. Hooker   [2 June 1866]

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He is not grieved at CD’s omissions of his [JDH’s] work [from Origin, 4th ed.]. It proves nothing – claims only to be illustration of using CD’s methods.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [2 June 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 78
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5110

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From J. D. Hooker   [20 November 1858]

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At work on the introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

Discusses the effects of climate and geography on "vegetable strife".

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [20 Nov 1858]
Classmark:  DAR 50: E1–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2367

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  • … Sunday before CD’s reply (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, [23 November 1858] ). Hooker 1859 . …
  • J.  D. Hooker, 14 November [1858] . The list may be DAR 50: E65. Letter from W.  H. de Vriese to J.  D. Hooker, 21 September 1858. In his letter, Vriese had failed to answer CD’s question. Hooker considered this question in Hooker 1859 , …

From J. D. Hooker   26 November 1862

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Returns Asa Gray letter. Gray has made a great blunder in his criticism of Oliver: he mistakes perpetuation of a variety for "propagation of variation". Confusion between "action of physical causes" and "effects of physical causes". Neither crossing nor natural selection has made so many divergent individuals, but simply variation. "If once you hold that natural selection can create a character your whole doctrine tumbles to the ground." CD’s failure to convey this, and the false doctrine that "like produces like" is at bottom of half the scientific infidelity to CD’s doctrine. There is something to the objection that CD has made a deus ex machina of natural selection since he neglects to dwell on the facts of infinite incessant variations.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 61–2, 77–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3831

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  • Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24 [November 1862] . CD, Hooker, and Charles Lyell had corresponded extensively on this point (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [20 December 1859] , …

From J. D. Hooker   [24 March 1863]

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Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.

Interested in reversion.

Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.

JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].

Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2027

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 17 March [1863] and n.  3). Hooker ended his essay with a postscript, the last paragraph of which ( J.  D.  Hooker 1859 , …
  • Hooker, 17 March [1863] . See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26 [March 1863] . C.  Lyell 1863a , pp.  504–5. Hooker’s maternal grandparents were the banker and botanist Dawson Turner , and Mary Turner . In C.  Lyell 1863a , p.  417, Charles Lyell had claimed that J.  D.  Hooker 1859   …

From J. D. Hooker   [21 November 1859]

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JDH’s congratulations on Origin.

Lyell believes S. P. Woodward wrote review in Athenæum.

Lyell’s and Huxley’s positive responses.

JDH has only plunged into a few chapters.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [21 Nov 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 135–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2539

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  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [21 November 1859] …
  • … the relationship to the letter to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] . CD had asked Hooker …
  • Hooker refers to an anonymous review of volume 4 of Watson 1847–59 , published in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 12 November 1859, pp.  911–12. See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [20 November 1859] . …

From J. D. Hooker   21 November 1869

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Has corresponded with Macmillan about Nature.

Will get the Kerner book.

Mere guesses must determine which form to fix on as the type.

Raises questions about the genealogical tree.

Serves Mlle Royer right.

Lyell declines Royal Society Presidency; now look to W. R. Grove. Long postscript on JDH’s views about knighthood.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1869
Classmark:  DAR 103: 39–41
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7002

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From J. D. Hooker   25 January 1859

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Relieved by Wallace’s letter.

At work on introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

European plants naturalised in Australia are almost all adapted to invading disturbed ground.

JDH supports Asa Gray against Alphonse de Candolle as foreign member of Royal Society.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Jan 1859
Classmark:  DAR 100: 131–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2404

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   25 January 1859
  • … See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 23 January [1859] . The family of Lewis Weston Dillwyn lived …

From J. D. Hooker   30 July [1867]

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Plans to come to Down on Saturday.

Returned Adam Bede two years ago.

Wishes CD would return Tylor’s Early history of mankind

and his own Himalayan journal with his notes, "both of which I have lent, i.e., lost".

Lyell well and full of "Insular" difficulties which he will propound.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 July [1867]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 172–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5588

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  • Hooker, 29 July [1867] . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 29 July [1867] and n.  2. Hooker had read Adam Bede ( Eliot 1859 ) …

From J. D. Hooker   [20 December 1859]

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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

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   [20 December 1859] …
  • … the relationship to the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 21 [December 1859] . The enclosure was a …

From J. D. Hooker   [12 December 1859]

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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

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   [12 December 1859] …
  • Hooker had read and commented on several chapters of CD’s species manuscript (see Correspondence vol.  6) as well as the equivalent material prepared for Origin (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] ). …

From J. D. Hooker   24 January 1863

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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

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  • … nn.  6 and 7, and letter to J.  D. Hooker, 23 [December 1859] , and Correspondence vol.   …

From J. D. Hooker   9 [March] 1864

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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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  • Hooker, 5 February 1864 , n.  17. Richard Owen reviewed Hooker’s On the flora of Australia ( J.  D.  Hooker 1859 ) …

From J. D. Hooker   [2 December 1857]

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News of Mrs Henslow’s death.

Studying Impatiens, which bears on CD’s problems. Though genus is endemic to India, with over 100 species, CD will be glad to know they do not run into one another.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [2 Dec 1857]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 178–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2178

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  • J.  D. Hooker, 21 November [1857] ). Harriet Henslow was the daughter of George Leonard Jenyns of Bottisham Hall, Cambridgeshire, and the sister of Leonard Jenyns . In J.  D. Hooker and Thomson 1859, …

From J. D. Hooker   [8–11 April 1859]

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Lyell has been strongly urging John Murray to publish CD’s book [Origin]. JDH feels Lyell overestimates the public interest in such works.

Gives examples of plants showing most marked varieties on the edge of their range.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [8–11 Apr 1859]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 127
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2444

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  • … From J.  D. Hooker   [8–11 April 1859] …
  • Hooker’s remarks about species that vary on the edge of their geographical range are clearly a response to CD’s question in the preceding letter. See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 2 April [1859] . …

From J. D. Hooker   [23 March 1862]

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Lighthearted thoughts on "the development of an Aristocracy" after a visit to Walcot Hall, Shropshire.

On CD’s point about the effect of changed conditions on the reproductive organs, JDH does not see why this is not "itself a variation, not necessarily induced by domestication, but accompanying some variety artificially selected".

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23 Mar 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 27–9; American Philosophical Society Library (Hooker papers, B/H76.2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3480

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 1 July [1857] ( Correspondence vol.  6). CD and Hooker had corresponded extensively on this point in 1860 (see Correspondence vol.  7, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [20 December 1859] , …

From J. D. Hooker   29 May 1866

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JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 May 1866
Classmark:  DAR 102: 77
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5104

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  • Hooker had endorsed CD’s theory of evolution by natural selection and applied the theory to the distribution of plants in his essays on Australian and Arctic floras ( J.  D.  Hooker 1859  and J.  D.   …

From J. D. Hooker   [6 December 1864]

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Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.

Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [6 Dec 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 262–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4708

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  • Hooker, 4 December [1864] and 10 December [1864] ; the intervening Tuesday was 6 December. See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 December [1864] and n.  12. The reference is to the article by Charles Victor Naudin , ‘Revue des cucurbitacées cultivées au Muséum, en 1859’ ( …

From J. D. Hooker   [31 January – 8 February 1862]

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Wrote a "frightful screed" about aristocracy’s being a necessary consequence of natural selection, and then burnt it.

H. W. Bates is the only man "thinking out" natural selection to any purpose. "I think I have driven Bates back to Nat. Sel. as the only way of solving his difficulties."

HWB’s mimetic butterflies.

JDH wishes he had time to do the same thing with plants.

Owen and Huxley involved in a "contemptible" squabble in the Edinburgh newspapers.

Maximovitch reports Stellaria bulbifera is a Siberian form which never ripens its seeds.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31 Jan – 8 Feb 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 14; DAR 111: 93
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3430

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  • Hooker, 30 January [1862] , CD requested information concerning a case of dimorphism in the Caryophyllaceae that Hooker had mentioned; the genus Stellaria belongs to the Caryophyllaceae. CD thanked Hooker for his information on Stellaria in the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 February [1862] . Stellaria bulbifera is a synoym of Pseudostellaria europaea . Maximowicz 1859, …
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