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 . …
To J. D. Hooker 5 [March 1859]
Summary
Will read JDH’s printers’ slips on variation.
CD has been so ill, he wonders whether he will get his book done, though so nearly completed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 [Mar 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2424 |
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 |
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] . …
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 March [1859]
Summary
Has finished geographical distribution chapter and asks JDH to read it.
Is it just to say embryological characters are of high importance in plant classification?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2422 |
To John Murray 31 March [1859]
Summary
CD has heard from Lyell that JM is inclined to publish his work on the origin of species. Will send some chapters as soon as copyist has finished. Sends list of 12 chapters. It will be a popular abstract of more than 20 years’ work. It ought to be popular with scientific and semi-scientific readers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.12–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2441 |
To Charles Lyell 28 March [1859]
Summary
Has heard that CL has spoken to John Murray about publication [of Origin]. Encloses prospective title-page. Asks whether he ought to tell John Murray about unorthodoxy of the book.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.163) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2437 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
