From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 97
Summary:
JDH’s books have arrived.
Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 98
Summary:
Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.
Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 99
Summary:
Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 100
Summary:
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 104
Summary:
Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 102
Summary:
Will visit JDH on Friday. Coming by phaeton to save five changes of conveyance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Sept 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 103
Summary:
David Milne’s attack on his Glen Roy paper ["On the parallel roads of Lochaber", (1847) Trans. R. Soc. Edinburgh 16 (1849): 395–418] made CD horribly sick.
Wants Thomas Thomson to establish geographical range of erratic boulders in India.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 108
Summary:
Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.
Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 or 13] Oct 1847
Source of text:
DAR 114: 105
Summary:
Difficulty of scheduling visit before JDH departs on Himalayan expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 107
Summary:
On scheduling farewell meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 106
Summary:
Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 111
Summary:
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 109
Summary:
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 110
Summary:
CD too unwell to see JDH. Encloses Emma’s farewell note.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb – 16 [Mar] 1848
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 52–4 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.
Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.
Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.
Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.
Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.
Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.
Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.
CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.
Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 May 1848
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112
Summary:
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July [1848]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 94 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
Brian Hodgson reading CD’s Journal of researches with delight.
Forwarding breeding pamphlets.
JDH recommends P. S. Pallas on degeneration.
CD’s facts on sex in barnacles startling.
Hugh Falconer’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112a
Summary:
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.
Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.
Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.
No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.
Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 131–5 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
Physical description of Sikkim mountains.
Travelling through Kinchin snows.
Transported boulders.
Contributor:
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Addressee
Correspondent
- Hooker, J. D.
- Darwin, C. R.171
- Hooker, W. J.91
- Bentham, George36
- Hooker (nee Turner), Lady Maria15
- Henslow, J. S.14
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton8
- Hooker (nee Henslow), Frances Harriet8
- McGilvray (nee Hooker), Maria6
- unknown addressee6
- Evans Lombe (nee Hooker), Elizabeth 'Bessy'4
- Palgrave (nee Turner), Lady Elizabeth4
- Hooker, Mary and Elizabeth3
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph2
- Boott (nee Hardcastle), Mary2
- Campbell, Dr Archibald2
- Lyell, Charles2
- Ward, Nathaniel Bagshaw2
- Boott, Doctor Francis1
- Brown, Robert1
- Champion, Lieutenant Colonel John George1
- Dalton, Reverend James1
- Hamilton, Reverend James1
- Hooker (nee Turner), Lady Maria?1
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Palgrave, Francis1
- Palgrave, William Gifford1
- Richardson (nee Booth), Mrs Mary1
- Turner (nee Palgrave), Mary1
- Turner, Dawson1
- Turner, Mary Anne1
- Wallich, Nathaniel1
- Watson, H. C.1
- Wheatstone, Professor Charles1
- [Evans Lombe (nee Hooker), Elizabeth 'Bessy']1
- [McGilvray (nee Hooker), Maria]1