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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 43–6
Summary:

Kew affairs.

H. J. Carter’s observations are wonderful but want verification.

Skeptical of H. H. Travers’ observations.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224
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].

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8–18 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 4–5
Summary:

Bentham wants "Climbing plants" for Journal of the Linnean Society, however long [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 1–118]. Publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society restricts correspondence.

Reader much improved.

Tyndall did write piece on spiritualism ["Science and the spirits", Reader 4 (1864): 725–6].

"Suppressed gout" annoys him as a term cloaking ignorance.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 6
Summary:

Cannot come until week from Saturday.

Worked to death by Genera plantarum.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 7
Summary:

John Scott has arrived in Calcutta and has been given an appointment by Thomas Anderson.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 8–9
Summary:

Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.

CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 10–11
Summary:

Why botanists will not subscribe to Falconer’s bust with enthusiasm.

Scott has been offered curatorship at Calcutta Botanic Garden.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Feb 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 12
Summary:

Will arrive Saturday [4 Mar] on afternoon train.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Mar 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 13–14
Summary:

Thomas Thomson has gone over Scott’s paper; encloses his conclusions. Not fit for publication in present form. His experiments should have been repeated to resolve his disagreement with Gärtner.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7–8 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 15–16
Summary:

Reforms at Kew.

X Club Dinner. H. B. Wilson and J. W. Colenso as guests.

Troubled by Lubbock’s going into Parliament – loss to science.

Has written to Busk.

Sending Botanische Zeitung.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 17
Summary:

W. J. Hooker is unwell.

Bentham wrote on Planchon ["The ancient and modern floras of Montpellier", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 202–25],

T. Thomson on subspecies ["Species and subspecies", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 226–42]

and Greene of York on ["The Linnean Society’s transactions", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1865): 189–202].

JDH did the leader in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1865): 267–8, 291–2].

Delighted with CD’s calm opinion of Origin. Has same view of some of his own papers.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 18–19
Summary:

Pleased at CD’s opinion of Thomson’s article.

Non-reading is great fault of the best school of English scientific men.

Opposed to Lubbock’s going into Parliament.

W. J. Burchell’s collections are coming to Kew.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 20–1
Summary:

On FitzRoy’s suicide.

The Lyell–Ramsay disagreement [on formation of lakes?].

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 22–3
Summary:

All overworked at Kew.

Burchell collections enormous.

Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.

Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],

disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 24–7
Summary:

JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131)
Summary:

Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].

Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 17 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 29
Summary:

Recommends J. W. Kayes’ book [History of the Sepoy War, vol. 1 (1864)].

Wife improving.

Glad CD liked Huxley’s letter.

Not an admirer of Kingsley.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 30–3
Summary:

Studying moraines.

On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.

W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.

Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.

Natural History Review is all but defunct.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Sept 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 34–6a
Summary:

On his reading: George Eliot,

T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.

Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.

His grief over loss of father and child.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 37–42
Summary:

On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.

On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.

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