From J. D. Hooker [11 May – 3 December 1860]
Summary
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 May – 3 Dec 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3036 |
To George Howard Darwin and W. E. Darwin 13 [November 1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 13 [Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1987 |
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- … Wedgwood ‘lived in her books, and the administration of her charities, and her only society was that of my mother and a few old friends and relations. She had no gift for intercourse with her neighbours, rich or poor, and I do not believe ever visited in the village. ’ ( Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 105). Although CD had told Joseph Dalton Hooker that he would not be able to dine with him, CD did go to London for the day on 13 November, as proposed in the postscript in the letter to J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1880
Summary
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 142–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12838 |
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- … J. D. Hooker and Gray 1880 was published in the Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey , edited by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden . CD had received a copy of James Paget ’s lecture ( Paget 1880 ; see letter to James Paget, 14 November 1880 ). In Movement in plants , p. 105 n. , CD had referred to Friedrich Nobbe’s Handbuch der Samenkunde (Handbook of seed science; Nobbe 1876 ). William Ewart Gladstone was the prime minister. Elizabeth Wedgwood , Emma …
To John Lubbock 5 April [1863]
Summary
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 5 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4075 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ). In 1861, Lubbock moved from High Elms, the family home near Down, to Chislehurst, about five miles away ( Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 52). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) recorded the visits of a number of guests during the first week of April 1863. All the Darwin children, except for George, were home for Easter Sunday (5 April); CD’s sister, Emily Catherine, was also visiting Down House. Emma Darwin’s nephews, Laurence and Alfred Allen Wedgwood , …
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1866]
Summary
Pleased by JDH’s success. JDH gives argument for occasional transport with perfect fairness.
W. R. Grove’s address [see 5201] good, but is disappointed that species part was so general.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5200 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [28 August] 1866 . Hooker evidently enclosed a local Nottingham newspaper report on his lecture on insular floras at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, but no copy has been found in the Darwin archive. The Nottingham Journal and the Nottingham Daily Express both carried accounts of Hooker’s lecture on 28 August 1866. The latter account claimed that Hooker had succeeded in making a not very attractive subject highly interesting. The reference is to Frances Emma Elizabeth Wedgwood . …
To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3447 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1860] ). Emma Darwin took Horace to Headland on 11 February 1862, and recorded in her diary the commencement of an acid treatment on 14 February (DAR 242). Camilla Ludwig was governess to the Darwin children. CD refers to the lunch party at John Lubbock’s on 15 February 1862 to which, in addition to Joseph Dalton Hooker , George and Ellen Busk had been invited (see letter from John Lubbock, 13 February 1862 ). The references are to Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , …
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1863
Summary
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Sept 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 163–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4306 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 26 August 1863 . Hooker refers to the district of north Staffordshire known as ‘the Potteries’, which was the principal site of the English china and earthenware industries ( EB ). The Wedgwood works were at Etruria, near Hanley, one of the principal towns of the Potteries; Biddulph Grange is approximately seven miles north of Hanley. Henrietta Emma …
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