To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1855]
Summary
Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.
Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1781 |
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- … Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not …
- … much interested on my old puzzle about Social Plants: Decandolle by the facts, which he …
- … more puzzling in my eyes. The case of social plants is of no direct importance whatever to …
- … difference between very common plants & social plants’. ‘Even the brushwood is a fruit- …
- … cases would throw light on “sociability”? But why on earth are not Tropical plants social? …
- … other; namely whether introduced plants are ever social in their new country not being so …
- … and sow-thistle as examples of plants that are ‘social’ in their adopted country but not …
- … the impression that tropical plants were less ‘social’ or abundant than those of temperate …
- … How comes it that some plants near their extreme limits are social? What puzzles there are …
- … plants that were widely diffused (‘répandues’) and those that were abundant or social (‘ …
From Asa Gray 23 September 1856
Summary
Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World.
Distribution of U. S. species common to Europe.
Gives Theodor Engelmann’s opinion on the relative variability of indigenous and introduced plants and notes the effects of man’s settlement on the numbers and distribution of indigenous plants.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1959 |
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- … selection’, includes a discussion of social plants ( Natural selection , pp. 203–5). …
- … may be said to have become a truly social plant, in neglected fields and copses, and even …
- … road- sides, and is one of our most social plants. But this plant is doubtless a native of …
- … c. —and may fairly be called a social plant. In Germany it is not so found, fide …
- … your question, as to whether there are any plants social here, which are not so in the old …
- … Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World. Distribution of U. S. …
- … page : ‘Naturalised Plants variable’ pencil ; ‘(C)’ brown crayon ; ‘Social in America’ …
- … brown crayon 4.2 social] underl brown crayon 6.5 And hardly … plant. 6.6] scored brown …
- … crayon 3.2 Here … plants. 3.3] double scored brown crayon 3.3 social] underl brown crayon …
To Asa Gray 2 May [1856]
Summary
Suggests affinities of the U. S. flora that he considers would be worth investigating. Wants to know the ranges of species in large and small genera.
Questions AG on naturalised plants; whether any are social in U. S. which are not so elsewhere and how variable they are compared with indigenous species. Would like to know of any differences in the variability of species at different points of their ranges and also the physical states of plants at the extremes of their ranges.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1863 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 March [1869]
Summary
Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6677 |
To Asa Gray 12 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks AG for the first part of his "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403]
and for information on social and varying plants.
Would like to know number of genera of introduced plants in U. S.
Is surprised at some affinities of northern U. S. flora and asks for any climatic explanations.
Asks what proportion of genera common to U. S. and Europe are mundane.
Is glad AG will work out the northern ranges of the European species and the ranges of species with regard to size of genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 12 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1973 |
From J. D. Hooker 25 January 1859
Summary
Relieved by Wallace’s letter.
At work on introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.
European plants naturalised in Australia are almost all adapted to invading disturbed ground.
JDH supports Asa Gray against Alphonse de Candolle as foreign member of Royal Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1859 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 131–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2404 |
From W. H. Leggett 15 January 1877
Summary
At Asa Gray’s request, writes what he knows about Pontederia cordata.
Author: | William Henry Leggett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10790 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 October 1873
Summary
Sends plant specimens.
He and Thiselton-Dyer, working on with Nepenthes, have independently found the spiral vessels going to the gland. CD’s view that the glands are secretory organs is suggestive. When Nepenthes is as much done as CD wants,
he will turn to Cephalotus and Sarracenia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 176–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9116 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 July 1874
Summary
Sends results of his observations on Nepenthes. Would be grateful for any hints for further observations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 202–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9530 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 December [1858]
Summary
Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2388 |
To Council of the Royal Horticultural Society 11 April 1864
Summary
The signatories warn the RHS that in offering prizes for collections of specimens of wild English plants, the Society will cause serious injury to varieties already threatened without any real promotion of scientific botany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Horticultural Society |
Date: | 11 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society 4 (1864): 91–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4459F |
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- … plant conservation in Britain. Transactions of the Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society 72: 35–50. Allen, David Elliston. 1994. The naturalist in Britain: a social …
- … social composition of those likely to enter the competition, see Journal of Botany 2 (1864): 124). In deference to the protests against the prizes, the Royal Horticultural Society instructed competitors not to collect more than 200 plants …
From Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg 16 August 1875
Summary
Sends his review of Insectivorous plants in the Pall Mall Gazette of Vienna.
Author: | Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10123 |
From H. B. Taylor 18 April 1881
Summary
Sends "Ginger Beer Plant", a seed that assists the fermentation of ginger beer. [Also enclosed are instructions for making ginger beer dated, presumably erroneously, 18 Oct 1881.]
Author: | Sara Helen Biggs (Helen) (Biggs) Taylor |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13126 |
From A. R. Wallace 9 July 1881
Summary
Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13238 |
From George Cross 23 October 1876
Summary
Sending Drosera plants by post instead of rail because they are rotting.
Author: | George Cross |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10651 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 2 July 1868
Summary
Offers notes and reflections on Variation.
Not convinced by Pangenesis, particularly its dependence on the Cytisus [graft hybrid] examples [ch. 27 and ch. 11].
What a book could be written on the application of natural history to man! Gives examples of inheritance in man.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6264 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 October 1875
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 40–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10205 |
To G. J. Romanes 5 February 1880
Summary
On GJR’s work on mental evolution in animals. Emphasises "love" among animals.
Comments on stimulation of plants.
On pleasure and pain.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 5 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.571) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12461 |
From J. D. Hooker [2]9 June 1863
Summary
JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.
CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].
JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".
[Dated 9 June by JDH.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2]9 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 147–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4224 |
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insectivorous plants in Commentary
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …