To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1861]
Summary
CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.
H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3047 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 February [1861]
Summary
Changes in admission to Athenaeum.
Slowly working at his volume on Variation.
Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3057 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [February 1861]
Summary
Henrietta’s continuing poor health. JDH’s suggestion to rub her with cod-liver oil.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3060 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 [February 1861]
Summary
Asa Gray’s pamphlet.
Ill health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 [Feb 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3065 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1861]
Summary
Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3085 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 March [1861]
Summary
Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3091 |
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 26 [March 1861]
Summary
Henslow is dying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [Mar 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3101 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [March 1861]
Summary
H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".
H. C. Watson’s hostility.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [Mar 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3102 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1861]
Summary
Affectionate regards to Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3111 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1861]
Summary
CD infers [incorrectly] from Huxley’s report that Henslow is dead.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3116 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [April 1861]
Summary
CD misunderstood Huxley: Henslow is not dead.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3119 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Offers to go to Henslow despite his own poor health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3125 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 May [1861]
Summary
Henslow’s long suffering.
Donald Beaton’s articles in Cottage Gardener clever but not to be trusted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3149 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [May 1861]
Summary
Henslow’s death.
What a contrast C. C. Babington will be as Professor of Botany at Cambridge.
Beaton not to be trusted.
CD may switch from Athenæum to London Review & Wkly J. Polit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 18 [May 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3152 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 May [1861]
Summary
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24–5 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3155 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1861]
Summary
Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3168 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1861]
Summary
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3190 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1861]
Summary
Many mutual acquaintances are ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3192 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 July 1861]
Summary
Trip to Torquay.
Superiority of Journal of Horticulture to Gardeners’ Chronicle for CD’s purposes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 July 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3200 |
