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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 64
Summary:
CD, ill and despondent about hostile reviews, is cheered by JDH’s account of Oxford battle, particularly by willingness of JDH and Huxley to fight for CD’s theory in public.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
2?-7?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.6-7, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 66
Summary:
Reread JDH’s letter "with infinite pleasure".
Plans to visit Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 65
Summary:
CD will visit Kew on way home from E. W. Lane’s hydropathy establishment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 67
Summary:
Floral anatomy; pistil curvature and pistil movement. CD’s rule that bent pistils occur in "gangway" into nectaries.
The book JDH is planning, which he and CD discussed at Kew, should deal with plant reproduction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 69
Summary:
Asa Gray’s articles in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences [10 Apr 1860] excellent; considering asking Athenæum to reprint them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 [July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 68
Summary:
Asa Gray’s anonymous review.
"Intensely interested" in orchid homologies; like a "game of chess".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20? July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 33a
Summary:
CD’s reaction to review of the Origin [by Samuel Wilberforce] in Quarterly Review [see 2881].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 July [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 70
Summary:
Casual observations on Drosera.
Wants to know author of good review of Origin in London Review [& Wkly J. Polit. 1 (1860): 11–12, 32–3, 58–9].
Athenæum will reprint Gray’s discussion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
