From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 473
Summary:
CD contributes £200 to JDH’s Royal Society fund.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 474
Summary:
Wants Oxalis specimen named; is fascinated by cotyledonary movements of the genus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 475–6
Summary:
Before JDH discusses flora of Canary Islands CD suggests he read F. B. White’s paper [see 11707], which explains stocking of Atlantic island fauna as due to changed currents during [last, or Miocene] northern glacial period.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 May 1848
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112
Summary:
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 477–8
Summary:
Thanks for JDH’s description of CD’s work in Nature.
Anthony Rich to bequeath his property (over £1100 a year) to CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 479–80
Summary:
Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 481–2
Summary:
Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112a
Summary:
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 485–8
Summary:
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 489–90
Summary:
Searching for the right gardener.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Mar 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 113
Summary:
CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?
CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.
Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 95: 491–3
Summary:
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 494–5
Summary:
JDH convinces CD not to press for pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 114
Summary:
Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.
CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.
CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Oct 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 116
Summary:
CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.
Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.
Details of water-cure.
Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.
Lamination of gneiss.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 496–9
Summary:
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 500–1
Summary:
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 502–3
Summary:
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 504–5
Summary:
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 507–8
Summary:
On Wallace’s pension and Frank’s F.R.S.
Contributor:
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