From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 149–50
Summary:
JDH lays hard treatment of John Scott to J. H. Balfour’s anti-Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 151
Summary:
Has heard from Julius von Haast that some of his letters were lost before leaving New Zealand. Haast’s enclosure for CD has been forwarded.
Haast and James Hector have both sent accounts of their travels in New Zealand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2]9 June 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 147–8
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.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 152–3
Summary:
Encourages CD to continue observations on tendrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 154–5
Summary:
Sends "tendrilliferous" plants.
Plans visit to Down.
Naudin’s paper on tendrils [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 9 (1863): 180–203].
T. V. Wollaston snubs Bates’s work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 157–8
Summary:
JDH working on the New Zealand flora.
Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.
T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 156
Summary:
Suggests CD consult George Busk about his stomach.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 163–6
Summary:
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 159
Summary:
Grieves over the death of his second daughter [Maria Elizabeth].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 160–2
Summary:
Sorrow at loss of his daughter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 167–70
Summary:
With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 3] Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 173–5
Summary:
Anxious to see Haast’s letter.
JDH’s views on Poles and Franco-Prussian conflict.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1863
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 143-6
Summary:
Hooker states that he will re-read ARW's 1853 book about the Amazon as he doesn't recall it interesting him at all when it was first published.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 March 1863
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 114-16
Summary:
Refers to paper by F. Smith on the distribution of ARW's Hymenoptera.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project