From J. D. Hooker [26 November – 4 December 1860]
Summary
Encourages CD’s work in vegetable physiology.
Ascending the Lebanon JDH noted limits of plant distribution as CD requested: lower limits of a genus sharper than upper. Sharpness of boundaries related to a plant’s moisture requirement.
Impressed by "sporadic" distribution at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Nov – 4 Dec 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 158–60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3000 |
Matches: 1 hit
From J. S. Henslow to J. D. Hooker 10 May 1860
Summary
Describes Sedgwick’s attack on CD’s views [at Cambridge Philosophical Society] and his own defence, though he believes CD has pressed his hypothesis too far.
| Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | MS Add. 9537/2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2794 |
From William Henry Harvey 24 August 1860
Summary
Continues earlier discussion, admitting his opinions have been modified. Still regards natural selection as one agent of several. States areas of disagreement.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 33–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2898 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 20 May [1860] , 29 [May 1860] , and 30 May [1860] . Origin , p. 184. CD deleted the passage from the second edition of Origin , although he allowed it to remain in the American edition. Richard Owen , who at first expressed interest in this example (see Correspondence vol. 7, letter to Richard Owen, 10 December [1859] ), …
To Charles Lyell 23 February [1860]
Summary
Gradation in the eye.
Hooker intends to reply [to W. H. Harvey’s article in Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6].
Discusses Aspicarpa with respect to correlation.
Comments on monstrous animals.
Discusses objections of Bronn and Asa Gray to natural selection. Cites parallel between natural selection and Newton’s concept of gravitation.
Mentions German experiments on spontaneous generation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1860] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2707 |
To Asa Gray 28 January [1860]
Summary
If an American edition of Origin is considered worth while, CD would like AG’s reviews prefixed to it.
Will use all his strength to produce first part of his three-volume big work [Variation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 28 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2665 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hooker, 5 January 1860 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1860] and n. 3. CD was in London from 24 to 27 January ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See Correspondence vol. 7, letter to Asa Gray, 4 April [1858] . The enclosure has not been found. CD had asked his publisher to send Gray the unbound sheets of the second English edition of Origin late in 1859 ( …
| letter | (45) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Gray, Asa | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Lyell, Charles | (7) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (14) |
| Gray, Asa | (10) |
| Lyell, Charles | (7) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
