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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
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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:
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:
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:
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?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 [Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 222
Summary:
Asks for a Smilax to study movement.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26[–7] Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 225
Summary:
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 226a–b
Summary:
Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 227a–c
Summary:
Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.
CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 228
Summary:
CD apologises for having asked JDH to help him with Scott and now seeks advice on how to break the news.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 229
Summary:
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 [Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 230
Summary:
Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.
Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 231
Summary:
CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.
Leersia.
Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.
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