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DCP-LETT-3856

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 80–2
Summary:

"Throttled off" Welwitschia paper at Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 1–48].

Has read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).

Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3879F

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 85
Summary:

Comments on items in the Saturday Review and the Edinburgh Review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3890

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 96–7
Summary:

JDH’s impression on meeting [J. A.] Froud[e].

CD’s projected three volume work.

Complains at poor state of some [unspecified] plant collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3891

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 or 28] Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 93–5
Summary:

Hostile to Spencer’s application of natural selection to society.

JDH on J. E. Gray’s views on collecting.

JDH collecting Wedgwood ware.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1119

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
11 April 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.32-33, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1120

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
21 April 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.34-35, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1121

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
9 May 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.36-37, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1122

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
22 July 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.38-40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1123

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
4 August 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.41-44, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1124

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
27 October 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.45-46, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1125

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
16 November 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.47-48, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1348

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1862?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.138, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Undated letter of four pages over 1 folio.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1350

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-8?-1862?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.140, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC143

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 October 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.17-18, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH hopes to send Asa Gray copies of GENERA PLANTARUM with the autumn box of 'distributa'. JDH discusses Sir John William Dawson's criticisms of one of his essays concerning plant distribution [possibly JDH's introductory essay from FLORA ANTARCTICA], addressing each point in detail. Dawson's objections centre on the flora of Scandinavia & supposed geological inaccuracies, many concerning Greenland. In the past JDH & Sir Charles Bunbury have quashed some of Dawson's palaeobotany papers sent to the Geological Society. JDH is convinced his own conclusions are sound, they have the support of James Hector & Sir Charles Lyell. Dawson is against Darwinism & the theory of evolution by natural selection. JDH notes that there is currently a lot of changes in geological theory & hypotheses in the discipline are difficult to prove, there is an argument about the effectiveness of current species variation & distribution in determining past land formations. JDH believes geological & biological evidence must both be taken into account to form a strong hypothesis. He makes the point that all facts began as theory, just as absolute specific creation is now questioned so may creation by variation be disproved, or it could become established fact. JDH mentions his own work on Welwitschia [mirabilis], specifically characteristics of ovules in male & female flowers, & Gray's work on Cypripedium. Thanks Gray for Asimina & urges him to write a systematic resume of American flora.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1445

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
20 May 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.242, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1505

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
19?-3-1862
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.126, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1506

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
25 December 1862
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.127, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC251

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
6 December 1862
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.84-85, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH discusses the health of Brian Houghton Hodgson's wife. His own wife, Frances, has had a tooth out but otherwise the Hooker family are all well, he particularly mentions his son Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker "growing a pace in stature & wisdom". He mentions a rocking horse much loved by his children. Thomas Thomson & his wife spent some time at Kew & have now gone to Hastings. [Sir James William] Colvile's house is shut up. Mentions chatting with [Sir Lawrence] Peel & a coin expert named Mr. Thomas at the Athenaeum Club. [Charles] Lyell is still working on his 'age of man', JDH comments that he will struggle to reconcile his old geology with recent discoveries, including Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. [Thomas Henry] Huxley is working on a publication about the relation of men to lower animals, JDH is very impressed with it. Summarises & critiques [Richard] Owen's paper, read at the Royal Society, on the dinosaur Gryphosaurus & its relation to birds vs. reptiles. JDH notes that the paper actually backs up [Charles] Darwin's: "much disputed dogma" regarding the geological record. JDH mentions some of Darwin's work and praises him as 'the first naturalist in Europe...as great as any that ever lived'. Discusses the reception, by the press and clergy, of Bishop [John William] Colenso's writings on the interpretation of the Bible. Mentions the Schlagintweit's book.

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Hooker Project
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