To J. D. Hooker [1 April 1864]
Summary
Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 226a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4444 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 April 1864]
Summary
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4445 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 April 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4448 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 April [1864]
Summary
Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.
CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 227a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4450 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 April 1864
Summary
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4452 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1864]
Summary
CD apologises for having asked JDH to help him with Scott and now seeks advice on how to break the news.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 228 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4455 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1864
Summary
Men of Scott’s Celtic temperament are very troublesome. Tries to dissuade CD from hiring him as a scientific gardener.
George Rolleston, not Spencer, wrote review of Schleiden [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 187–99].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 206–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4457 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1864]
Summary
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4461 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 [April 1864]
Summary
Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.
Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 [Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4468 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1864
Summary
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 208–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4469 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1864]
Summary
CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.
Leersia.
Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 231 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4471 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1864]
Summary
Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4474 |
From Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker [28 April 1864]
Summary
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4473 |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |