From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
13 May 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.119, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
16 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.120, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
19 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.121, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
21 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.122, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
27 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.123, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
18 May 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.124-127, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
29 January 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.63, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to inform his uncle [Reverend John Gunn] that H. Christy will send him a set of [geological] specimens from the Dordogne cave, which illustrate the strata where relics of man are found. They will be sent through Falconer. JDH wishes to show Gunn some of his Wedgwood pottery: a plaque by John Flaxman showing Achilles & Hector at Troy, a medallion of Mitten & Erasmus by Goldsmith, & one of the Prince & Princess of Wales along with 40 other portraits. In a note added under the signature he adds that Grove has told him about flint implements found in a cave at Bethlehem.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
20 February 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.64, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH thanks his Uncle, Reverend John Gunn, for a copy of his work: GEOLOGY OF NORFOLK. JDH sends Gunn Sir Edward Frankland's hypothesis on the glacial epoch. [Leonard] Horner is 80 & dying. JDH saw [Charles] Lyell, who was in shock about the bone caves in Borneo. Mentions subscriptions in support of Bishop [John William] Colenso. JDH's Father William Jackson Hooker is well. JDH is going to [Sir Joseph] Prestwitch's lecture on flint implements. Asks when Gunn is coming to London, suggests he attends upcoming Royal Society parties. Discusses: latest additions to his own & Francis 'Frank' Darwin's collections of Wedgewood pottery; a medallion of William Gifford 'Giffy' Palgrave made by [Thomas] Woolner; & [Sir Roderick Impey] Murchison's butter boats.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to his uncle, Reverend John Gunn, regarding recently published pamphlets on geology. Papers mentioned are written by: Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, John Tyndall & Charles Lyell [CL], plus a note by Hugh Falconer [HF] in ANNALS OF NATURAL HISTORY. JDH does not agree with HF's overzealous critique of a mistake by CL. Comments on the character of HF: a Scotsman JDH knows from India. JDH thinks the geology of the Suffolk valleys should be examined, suspects they are tidal not fluvial. JDH will send birds to Mr Smythe when Gunn provides the address.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
16 May 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.70, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
19 April 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.86-87, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
-[2]-[1863]
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.88-89, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Gilbert Baker
Date:
20 November 1865
Source of text:
BAK/1 f.41, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Gilbert Baker
Date:
26 January 1866
Source of text:
BAK/1 f.99, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mrs Susan Emma Smith
Date:
6 November 1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/23/2 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Archibald Smith
Date:
19 January 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/23/2 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2)
Summary:
Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311)
Summary:
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 225–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. 11, no. 178 JDH/2/1/11)
Summary:
CD’s photograph looks like J. R. Herbert’s Moses in the fresco in the House of Lords.
JDH is delighted about oxlip, but hybridity does not explain some large patches that are uniform and do not vary towards either cowslip or primrose.
Encloses letter from W. H. Harvey discussing Myosotis sylvatica and the common dandelion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
