To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1859]
Summary
Has read first sheets of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [introductory] essay [published separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. Criticises lack of evidence supporting views that best marked varieties occur at edges of range of species and that species remain under cultivation for many generations and suddenly begin to vary.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2450 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859]
Summary
CD hopes Woodward was not the Athenæum reviewer. "The manner in which he drags in immortality, & sets the Priests at me … is base".
JDH has made CD feel he can "face a score of savage reviewers".
H. C. Watson has written to him in tremendous praise of the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2542 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [22 November 1859] …
- … J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . The …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [20 November 1859] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . …
- … views. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 November 1859] . Michael Faraday , the director …
To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1859]
Summary
JDH’s comments on style of Origin MS leave CD confused.
CD advises on how to get Acacia to set seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2458 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 6 May [1859] …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 July [1859] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 July [1859] . …
- … Hooker’s views on reversion were given in Hooker 1859 , pp. viii–ix. CD’s copy of Hooker 1859 is in the Darwin Library–CUL; these pages were annotated by CD, and three passages are marked ‘good’. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 May [1859] . …
To J. D. Hooker 21 [December 1859]
Summary
Delighted JDH coming to Down. They will discuss Origin. JDH’s remarks that theory explains too much are excellent, yet CD cannot see his error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2591 |
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 26 [December 1859]
Summary
High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of immutable creation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 33, 30a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2606 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1859]
Summary
JDH finds style of CD’s MS obscure.
CD wary of JDH’s starting point on variability: it is not inherent, it does not lead necessarily to divergence, and it must be distinguished from inheritance.
Asa Gray has misread CD’s views on pre-glacial migrations and botched the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2461 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [December 1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2613 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1859]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Apr [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2452 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1866]
Summary
Has finished Variation. May insert a chapter on man.
Still puzzled by seeds of Adenanthera.
New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued.
Fritz Müller found six genera of dimorphic plants in one day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 309, 309b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5321 |
To J. D. Hooker [27 October or 3 November 1859]
Summary
More detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae]. Remarks on struggle of vegetation are admirable.
JDH will receive Origin in about ten days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 Oct or 3 Nov] 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2512 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [27 October or 3 November 1859] …
- … time between Hooker’s receipt of the letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1859] , and the …
- … sheets of Hooker 1859 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1859] ) in which Hooker …
- … Hooker 1859 , p. c). CD and Hooker had previously discussed Jukes’s views in relation to Hooker’s essay. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 22 December 1858 . Hooker 1859 , …
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 5 January 1860
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2638 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [20 November 1859]
Summary
Curious about author of review of Origin in Athenæum.
W. B. Carpenter has written and sounds converted, as has Quatrefages [de Bréau], who will "go a long way with" CD.
Has been ill and thus had time to brood about reception of book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [20 Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2537 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
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 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
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