From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 63–4
Summary:
Describes plans for travel in Morocco with George Maw and John Ball.
Has not yet read Descent.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 65–8
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions.
Reception of Descent. Evolution accepted everywhere; descent of man accepted calmly.
Morocco plans.
Fears for Huxley, who is overworked.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 69–70, DAR 205.2 (Letters): 240
Summary:
Plans to write an account of his trip to Morocco and, with John Ball, the botanical geography, for Linnean Society.
Results mainly negative; the Atlas exhibits "the dying out of European flora".
Only two or three beetles above 8000ft.
Disappointed that Canary Island species are absent from Atlas mountains; but an ocean current along Moroccan coast should help migration of Spanish, Portuguese, and Moroccan seeds to Canaries and Madeira.
Describes Lyell’s poor physical condition. Asks CD for his observations of symptoms.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 71–2
Summary:
He did observe that Ophrys apifera fertilised itself as CD described and O. lutea as well.
Moroccans are too civilised, taciturn, and unfriendly to make anything of them for expressions of emotions.
Moraines and negative results on Atlas alpine flora are the only points of the journey worth much.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 61–2
Summary:
Has given CD’s name to a species of Abutilon found by Fritz Müller.
Pleased at Henrietta [Darwin]’s engagement.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 264
Summary:
Identifies Henslow’s mouse that used tail as prehensile climbing organ as Mus messorius.
Has not seen the Quarterly Review.
Inquires after Lyell’s health.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 73–77
Summary:
Lengthy discussion of William Thomson’s address [BAAS, Edinburgh 1871].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 78–79
Summary:
Differences in violet and honeysuckle cases.
Huxley basted Thomson awfully in Section D [of BAAS].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Oct 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 80–2
Summary:
On Huxley’s article for Contemporary Review [see 7977] confuting Mivart. It has cheered him,
for he is very low about his mother’s state.
Is also in detestable position with "my lord and master", A. S. Ayrton. JDH has denounced him to the [First] Lord of the Treasury [W. E. Gladstone] for his conduct.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 85–6
Summary:
JDH’s servant carries his letter to Henry Holland about problems with Ayrton. Suggests servant take CD’s letter to Holland to town and post them at same time. Holland is said to be very intimate friend of Gladstone.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 87–92
Summary:
JDH has no intention of resigning. Thinks W. E. Gladstone would rather see Ayrton turned out than himself. Gladstone knows JDH has friends who would be troublesome. Only moral and political cowardice of Cabinet keeps Ayrton in office.
Lyell is much altered since autumn.
Has CD read Charles Martins’ paper on the glacial origin of the tourbières of the Jura [Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 42 (1871): 286–308]?
John Scott has an admirable series on horticulture in Bengal ["Notes on horticulture in Bengal", J. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India 2 (1871) pt 1: 241–96; 3 (1872) pt 1: 1–82].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 93–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’Correspondence vol. 156, Indian Letters, Calcutta Botanic Garden II 1860–1905, ff. 1066–7)
Summary:
Details of the JDH–Ayrton–Gladstone imbroglio.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 96–7
Summary:
Henry Holland is taking an active part in helping JDH in the Ayrton affair.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 98
Summary:
Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 99–100
Summary:
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
24 June 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.185-188, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 September 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.171, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
30 June 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.280, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
25 October 1871
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.132-133, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 January 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.33-34, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH thanks Asa Gray for sending him some apples. He & Mr Smith compare the variety sent, the 'Northern Spy', to English apples including the 'Ribstone Pippen' & the 'Nonsuch'. Discusses his work on the Rubiaceae family including the genera: Psychotria, Cephaelis, Nonateleiae[?], Rudgea ,Palicourea, Chasalia & Grumilea. Next he will work on Borreroids, including Hedyotoids. George Bentham is working on Compositae, currently struggling with Gnaphalia. JDH's wife, Frances Hooker, has finished translating Decaisne & Maout & Hooker himself did some work on the introduction. [John Gilbert] Baker is working on Monocots. [Thomas] Thomson is neglecting his work on the FLORA INDICA & there are problems with the printing & the length. JDH intends to take over editorship & organize it into a shorter manual with the different orders contributed by expert authors. JDH's mother, Lady Maria Hooker, is ill in Torquay but recovering. JDH thanks Gray for Cytinus, Apodanthes, a paper on Galax & his attention to Rubiaceae. JDH must put off his trip to California, he worries he is getting too old but takes comfort that Sir H. Holland just went over the Blue mountains of Jamaica aged over 80. Murchison has Hemiplegia & has resigned himself to death, his likely successor as President of the Geographical Society is Sir H. Rawlinson. Letter appears incomplete & is unsigned but is written in the hand of Joseph Dalton Hooker.
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Author
Addressee
Correspondent
- Hooker, J. D.
- Darwin, C. R.15
- Hooker (nee Henslow), Frances Harriet8
- Bolus, Henry4
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner3
- Grant Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone2
- Barkly, Henry1
- Bentham, George1
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph1
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, William Erasmus1
- Drummond-Hay, John Hay1
- Gray, Asa1
- Hooker (nee Turner), Lady Maria1
- Munro, General William1
- Wedgwood, Emma1