To J. D. Hooker [18 April 1847]
Summary
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Apr 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1082 |
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- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 October 1849 , in which CD recalled ‘that Heavenly day at Dropmore’. Watson believed that Edward Forbes had appropriated his scheme of subdividing the British flora into five ‘elements’ based on the countries from which the plants originally came. He published several bitter attacks on Forbes during 1846 ( Correspondence vol. 3, letter from J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]
Summary
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 257a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4742 |
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From J. D. Hooker 4 February 1867
Summary
Has declined Presidency of BAAS.
Relation of insular and continental genera will always be difficult problem.
On Providence and the "continuity theory".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 138–142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5390 |
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- … 1849] , and Correspondence vol. 5, letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 April [1853] ; see also Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix II. See Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, 1: 930, for Bentham’s description of Thapsia. Hooker mentioned Monizia edulis (a synonym of Daucus edulis ) and Melanoselinum when noting how odd it would be if some of the plants on Madeira were found on a British island or mountain (see J. D. …
To W. D. Fox [6 October 1859]
Summary
First impressions of the water-cure establishment are not favourable – "I always hate everything new".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [6 Oct 1859] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2502 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 November [1854]
Summary
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Nov [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1601 |
From W. E. Darwin 21 August [1863]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4271 |
To Asa Gray 29 November [1857]
Summary
Thanks AG for his criticisms of CD’s views; finds it difficult to avoid using the term "natural selection" as an agent.
Discusses crossing in Fumaria and barnacles.
Has received a naturally crossed kidney bean in which the seed-coat has been affected by the pollen of the fertilising plant.
Finds the rule of large genera having most varieties holds good and regards it as most important for his "principle of divergence".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 29 Nov [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2176 |
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To Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener [before 3 February 1863]
Summary
Answers D. Beaton’s criticism of Gärtner’s work, defending his results in crossing experiments and vindicating the memory of "one of the most laborious lovers of truth who ever lived".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 3 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3966 |
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- … letter from Charles Darwin to the Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener , [before 27 January 1863]’, nn. 3 and 7). There is a heavily annotated copy of Gärtner 1849 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 256–98). CD had earlier referred to Beaton’s repeated criticisms of Gärtner in the Journal of Horticulture , telling Joseph Dalton Hooker : ‘He has made me indignant by the way he speaks of Gärtner, evidently knowing nothing of his work’ (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. D. …
To Asa Gray 11 May [1863]
Summary
CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.
Is confused over phyllotaxy.
Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153 |
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From J. D. Hooker 25 August 1854
Summary
JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.
Insects found in coal.
Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.
JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Aug 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 384 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1581 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 and] 20 November [1862]
Summary
Sends CD West Ireland soundings.
More detail on his review "a la Lindley" [see 3797].
Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566] is capital.
Andrew Murray’s article plays into CD’s hands through sheer ignorance.
JDH is on Royal Society Council.
Has no recollection of applying natural selection to Polynesians. None but a German would dig out such a passage if it exists [see 3812].
Has caused Tyndall to modify his pseudo-geology.
Has not seen Duke of Argyll’s review [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97]. [The Duke] did not understand Orchids the least little bit, nor the Origin, when JDH saw him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 and 20 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 71–2, 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3807 |
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- … letters seeking to avert the disruption (see Buchanan 1849 and Cameron et al. , eds. 1993). Hooker apparently refers to a polemical essay on the ecclesiastical history of Scotland written by the eighth duke ( G. D. Campbell 1848 ), and may be implying that it was not entirely of Argyll’s own authorship. The attribution of [G. D. Campbell] 1862 is confirmed by the Wellesley index 1: 511–12. See letter to J. D. …
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
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