From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 201
Summary:
Tendril plants received.
Has just completed large crossing experiment with Lythrum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12–13 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 202
Summary:
Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.
Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 204
Summary:
CD’s illness: he is vomiting "vegetable" cells.
Dutrochet has published the best of CD’s observations on tendrils [see Climbing plants, p. 1 n.].
Lyell has found Joshua Trimmer’s Arctic shells on Moel Tryfan.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 205
Summary:
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 206
Summary:
Condolences on death of JDH’s daughter.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[30 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 207
Summary:
Has a letter from Haast on the spreading of European plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 208
Summary:
Pleased with JDH’s account of his French tour.
Doctor Brinton, recommended by Busk, does not believe CD’s brain or heart affected. Feels he is going steadily downhill. If so, hopes his life will be short.
Sends Haast’s letter.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 209
Summary:
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 210
Summary:
CD has a Wedgwood vase of his father’s for JDH.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22–3 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 211
Summary:
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333)
Summary:
On Wedgwood vases for JDH.
Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[7 Dec 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 215
Summary:
CD too ill to write.
Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.
Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Dec 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 213
Summary:
His bad health continues.
Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.
Origin to be published in Italian.
Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 214
Summary:
CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.
Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 and 12 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 115: 216
Summary:
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 217
Summary:
CD’s illness.
The difficulty of getting John Scott to publish his work. Has sent Scott’s paper [on Primulaceae] to Linnean Society. CD is sure it is valuable.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 218
Summary:
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 219
Summary:
Compares Clematis and Tropaeolum with respect to touch response. Tropaeolum shows a momentary response and quick recovery. Clematis takes hours to respond, and shows no recovery.
CD can show the gradations between leaves and tendrils, but how a branch passes into a tendril utterly puzzles him.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 220
Summary:
John Scott is gratified at Bentham’s proposal that he become an associate of the Linnean Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20–]22 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 221a–c
Summary:
Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.
Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.
Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?
Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?
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