Epsilon: Search Results

Search: Hooker, J. D. in addressee
Darwin Correspondence Project in contributor
1860-1869::1864::11 in date
letter in document-type

Showing 1–2 of 2 items

The Charles Darwin Collection

The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.

DCP-LETT-4650

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Date:

3 Nov [1864]

Source of text:

DAR 115: 253

Summary:

Asks JDH to verify an observation on Dicentra – what CD thought was a branch in the young plant now looks like a gigantic leaf in the old.

Concurs on Spencer’s clever emptiness.

Ramsay exaggerates role of ice. Sorry to hear that Tyndall grows dogmatic.

Admits difficulty of making case for Wallace’s Royal Medal at this time.

Will soon finish the first draft of Variation.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4682

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Joseph Dalton Hooker

Date:

26 Nov [1864]

Source of text:

DAR 115: 254a–c

Summary:

CD’s Lythrum paper has given him as much satisfaction as working out complemental males in cirripedes.

Response to award of Copley Medal.

Letters from Germany and France support natural selection.

Now that climbing plants are done, CD asks for Drosera.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project