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 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 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 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Hooker was preparing an introductory essay ( Hooker 1859 ) for his flora of Tasmania (see letters from J. D. Hooker, …
- … Hooker 1859 ,pp. xvii–xix and cii–civ). Hooker postulated the previous existence of meridional continents that would have enabled plants to cross the equator from the far north to Australia. CD marked and annotated these pages in his copy of Hooker 1859 (Darwin Library–CUL). See letter from J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1858]
Summary
JDH has confirmed CD’s opinion on the affinities of species in great genera. Is looking at large genera in several local Floras to find the "range & commonness of varying species".
Has been "beyond measure interested" in the construction instincts of the hive-bee.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 225 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2228 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1858]
Summary
Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.
His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 257 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2384 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1858]
Summary
Hermaphrodite trees are enough to "knock" CD down. Can JDH observe Eucalyptus to see whether pollen and stigma mature at same time?
JDH’s facts showing European plants are more common in southern Australia than in South America are disturbing because they are improbable on CD’s views of migration.
JDH said he would give examples of Australian forms that have migrated north along the mountains of the Malay Archipelago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2361 |
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