To J. D. Hooker 2 December 1868
Summary
Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.
No work exists on various biological points in plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 102–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6487 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1868]
Summary
Is working on new edition of Origin [5th (1869)].
Asks JDH’s assistance on a problem posed by Nägeli on morphological differences that are of no utility to plants and hence could not be selected. CD wants to show that these differences do not support the idea of progressive development as Nägeli suggests.
Owen pitches into CD and Lyell in third volume of Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 105–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6512 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 December 1868
Summary
JDH’s letter invaluable for an answer to Nägeli’s essay [Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art (1865)].
Has gone through his index to Gardeners’ Chronicle but finds little of use to JDH for his Flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 108—9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6515 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
