From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Jan 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 131–4
Summary:
Responds to CD’s criticisms. JDH is sometimes confused as to what he has borrowed from CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 135–7
Summary:
His view of CD’s hypothesis that Atlantic island genera are descended from extinct European plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 138–142
Summary:
Has declined Presidency of BAAS.
Relation of insular and continental genera will always be difficult problem.
On Providence and the "continuity theory".
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 143–4
Summary:
Relieved that CD approves his declining the Presidency of BAAS. The BAAS and the role of scientific men in it.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 145–6
Summary:
Has been persuaded to accept BAAS Presidency.
On Charles Naudin’s discovery of seeds of Chamaerops fertilised by the date-palm.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 147–50
Summary:
Sends Naudin’s letter.
Pangenesis.
Benjamin Clarke is mad.
Interested in CD’s Ipomoea experiment.
Scott’s experiments are all in CD’s favour.
Clarifies a sentence in "Insular floras".
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 151–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 143: 643)
Summary:
More on Naudin’s hybrid; the wonder lessened slightly.
JDH’s view that insular plants [distantly] related to those of continents are common came to him only after the lecture was in print; has not yet thought it out fully.
Moroccan flora may throw some light on Madeira flora.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 and 27 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 154–5
Summary:
Will be glad to have seeds of plants and CD’s climbing plant, which he has no doubt is Siphocampylus.
Anxious about his baby [Reginald Hooker].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 156
Summary:
Baby’s situation hopeless.
E. Perceval Wright on way to Seychelles for collecting.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 157–8
Summary:
Begins to hope baby may survive; description of symptoms.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 161–2
Summary:
Trail’s case is interesting, hopes it is true.
Has little faith in I. Anderson-Henry’s exactness.
Pleased with Paris exposition.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125)
Summary:
Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.
Will go to Paris again at end of month.
Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.
Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1867
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 163-4
Summary:
Hooker states his favour for ARW to win the gold medal for biology.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 165–6
Summary:
Does not share CD’s objection to continental extension, i.e., that it must be extended to every island in every ocean.
Sends paper on domesticated animals by Brian Hodgson [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 167–8
Summary:
Has been reading [H. C. Fleeming Jenkin’s] review in North British Review. Would answer it if not so lazy.
Has read Mount Sorel [A. Marsh-Caldwell (1845)] and Disraeli’s life of Lord G. Bentinck [1852]. Bad science, bad literature, bad politics.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 169–70
Summary:
Has been too busy to write. Is leaving for Switzerland that evening.
A friend, who ran away from home as a boy, has two sons who have done the same several times. Is the case worth investigating for CD?
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 July 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 171
Summary:
Back from Switzerland. Mrs Hooker much improved.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 172–3
Summary:
Plans to come to Down on Saturday.
Returned Adam Bede two years ago.
Wishes CD would return Tylor’s Early history of mankind
and his own Himalayan journal with his notes, "both of which I have lent, i.e., lost".
Lyell well and full of "Insular" difficulties which he will propound.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 174–5
Summary:
His opinion of two novels: Mary Barton and North and south [both by Mrs Gaskell].
Sends R. O. Cunningham’s letters.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 176–7
Summary:
Has given up Scotland trip due to his mother’s illness.
Asks for Fritz Müller’s full name – "he can help us much".
Reports on self-impregnated Victoria and impregnation of Chatsworth plants. Difficult to get foreman [of gardens] to keep accurate register.
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