From H. C. Watson 30 November [1859]
Summary
Sends a correction for Origin reprint.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2562 |
From J. D. Hooker [9 March 1859]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 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]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 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]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 November 1858]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 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
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 March 1863]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 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]
Summary
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 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
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 January 1859
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 July [1867]
Summary
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 December 1857]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [8–11 April 1859]
Summary
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 |
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 |
From George Bentham 21 May 1863
Summary
Returns CD’s pamphlets.
Wishes CD would work out further what keeps certain species immutable for great periods.
Feels himself a convert, but cannot go all lengths with CD.
Feels some reviewers distort CD’s argument.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4172 |
Matches: 2 hits
From Charles Lyell 20 August 1862
Summary
Jamieson has revisited Glen Roy and confirmed his theory of glacier lakes.
A. G. More considers CD the most profound of reasoners.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 358; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3691 |
Darwin, C. R. | (65) |
Hooker, J. D. | (35) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Watson, H. C. | (3) |