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 [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 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 [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 [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 Hugh Falconer 25 October and 12 November [1859]
Summary
The antlers of 800 deer of the glacial period have been found in a cave. They show great variety of form, but gradation from one to the other can be traced when all are laid out. Suggests CD study changes that have taken place in the species since glacial period.
Has ordered the wicked book [Origin] CD has been so long a-hatching.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct and 12 Nov 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 215–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2511 |
From Charles Lyell 4 October 1859
Summary
Response to Origin. Praise for summary of chapter 10 and chapter 11.
The dissimilarity of African and American species is ‘necessary result of “Creation” adapting new species to the pre-existing ones. Granting this unknown & if you please miraculous power acting’.
C. T. Gaudin writes of Oswald Heer’s finding many species common between Miocene floras of Iceland and Switzerland. Interesting for CD’s migration theory.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Oct 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 81; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Notebook 241, pp. 75–90) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3132 |
From T. H. Huxley 23 November 1859
Summary
Has just finished Origin. CD has demonstrated a true cause for the production of species.
CD has loaded himself with unnecessary difficulty in adopting natura non facit saltum.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1859 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: B11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2544 |
| letter | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
