From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 42–3
Summary:
Comments on Hermann Müller’s article on the structure of Gunnera flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 44
Summary:
JDH concerned about preparations for [his address at] Royal Society [anniversary] meeting [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (1876): 72–94].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 49–50
Summary:
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 399–400
Summary:
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 45–8
Summary:
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 401–2
Summary:
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 51–2
Summary:
Asks CD to come up to vote for Lankester.
Severely critical of R. L. Tait’s paper on Nepenthes communicated to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Jan 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 403
Summary:
Promises to vote for Lankester.
Acknowledges faults of R. L. Tait’s paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 53–4
Summary:
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 404–5
Summary:
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 55
Summary:
Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 406
Summary:
Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 407
Summary:
CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 56
Summary:
Forwards copies of CD’s geology books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 57–8
Summary:
JDH’s suggested text for Lyell’s tablet in Westminster Abbey.
Vigner[?] separates digestive principle from Nepenthes, disproving R. L. Tait.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 408–12
Summary:
CD and family suggest inscriptions for Lyell memorial at Westminster Abbey.
CD communicating H. Airy’s paper on phyllotaxis to the Royal Society.
Frank observes pod-like emanations from glands of insectivorous plant ingesting solid insect particles [see 10520].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 413–14
Summary:
Returns Mrs Lyell’s versions of Lyell memorial inscription. Disapproves of religious tone.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1876
Source of text:
DAR 104: 59
Summary:
JDH hopes Thiselton-Dyer does not discourage Frank’s investigation of insectivorous plants.
Preparing new editions of botany text-books.
His marriage is set for August.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 95: 415–16
Summary:
Asa Gray’s directed variation would make natural selection superfluous.
CD has read new theological reconciliations of Darwinism and religion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Sept [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 417–18
Summary:
CD grieves over death of Frank’s wife Amy; worries that it will weaken Frank’s determination to pursue his scientific work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
