From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [Aug 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 71
Summary:
Observations on Drosera: plants can distinguish minute quantities of nitrogenous substances.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 72
Summary:
Owen wants to be civil, and sneer behind CD’s back.
Those, like Rudolph Wagner, who want to go halfway on theory, are "booked to go further".
Anatomy of orchids.
Huxley says K. E. von Baer goes "a great way with me".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 73
Summary:
CD has a low opinion of British entomologists.
Lyell’s ingenious difficulties with natural selection show he is in earnest.
Asks JDH to observe beetles and variation of stripes in mules on his Syrian tour.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 74
Summary:
Thanks JDH for agreeing to observe coats of asses and mules in Middle East.
Asks for observations on vigour of plants as JDH ascends mountains.
Ad hominem article in Athenæum [review of John Tyndall, Glaciers of the Alps, 1 Sept 1860, pp. 280–2].
Reports extensive experiments on Drosera.
Observations on orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 75
Summary:
Welcomes JDH home from Middle Eastern expedition.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 76
Summary:
Preparing new edition of Origin and asks for JDH’s corrections and criticisms.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 78
Summary:
Third edition of Origin will answer reviewers.
Drosera experiments detailed.
Hopes for W. H. Harvey’s conversion.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 79
Summary:
Henry Fawcett’s article on Origin [Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92] quotes JDH’s Oxford speech.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 80, 78E
Summary:
On JDH’s suggestions for new edition of Origin.
Gray’s Atlantic Monthly articles to be published [in England] as a pamphlet.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 81
Summary:
Analysing results of last spring’s Primula experiments, CD infers pollen of short-styled plants "suits" long-styled plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 82
Summary:
Sends JDH note on adaptation of an Australian Compositae for dispersal in dry climate. Is it too trivial to publish? [Collected papers 2: 36–8].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 83
Summary:
Feels his poor stomach "saved" him from overworking his head.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 [June 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 69 (EH 88206052)
Summary:
CD writes of his admiration for pollination contrivances in Gymnadenia. Ask George Bentham whether this plant should be removed from genus Orchis.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 May 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 57
Summary:
Darwin references a "capital" letter he has received from ARW following ARW's reading of On the Origin of Species.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 139–40
Summary:
CD’s observations on curved styles read well. JDH seeks morphological rationale of curvature in the position of nectaries.
He has avoided lecturing to Royal Family’s children at Buckingham Palace.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 150–1, DAR 166.2: 262
Summary:
Has examined Leschenaultia and concludes the external viscid surfaces have nothing to do with the stigmatic surface. Agrees with CD’s style and nectary conclusions; accounts for their form and position in irregular flowers by describing floral development.
[Enclosed are some queries by CD with answers by JDH. Gives information on seed setting by Mucuna
and an opinion on the abruptness of N. and S. limits of plant ranges.]
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1860
Source of text:
DAR 157a
Summary:
Glad to hear good news of Etty [Henrietta Darwin].
CD’s observations on Scaevola are capital. The indusium collects the pollen and is the homologue of the pollen-collecting hairs of Campanula. A boat-shaped organ forms a second indusium, the inside base of which forms the stigmatic surface. The latter later protrudes as horns, forming the stigma.
Describes W. H. Harvey’s scientific career and thinks his letter interesting. Agrees with Harvey that the primary agency of natural selection is as great a mystery as ever. [Response to 2823.]
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1860
Source of text:
DAR 100: 141–2
Summary:
JDH reports on the debate on the Origin at Oxford [BAAS] meeting.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Nov – 4 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 158–60
Summary:
Encourages CD’s work in vegetable physiology.
Ascending the Lebanon JDH noted limits of plant distribution as CD requested: lower limits of a genus sharper than upper. Sharpness of boundaries related to a plant’s moisture requirement.
Impressed by "sporadic" distribution at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6–11 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 218
Summary:
JDH’s page-by-page criticisms on Origin, first edition, as requested by CD for preparation of the third edition.
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