From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.135, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.237, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.239, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.241, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Summary:
Comments on the travels of JDH.
Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.
Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 85
Summary:
CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.
H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Feb [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 87
Summary:
Changes in admission to Athenaeum.
Slowly working at his volume on Variation.
Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 86
Summary:
Henrietta’s continuing poor health. JDH’s suggestion to rub her with cod-liver oil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Feb 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 88
Summary:
Asa Gray’s pamphlet.
Ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 89
Summary:
Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 90
Summary:
Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 92
Summary:
Henslow is dying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Mar 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 93
Summary:
H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".
H. C. Watson’s hostility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 95
Summary:
Affectionate regards to Henslow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
9 April 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.140, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Apr [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 96
Summary:
CD infers [incorrectly] from Huxley’s report that Henslow is dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 97
Summary:
CD misunderstood Huxley: Henslow is not dead.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
22 April 1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.12-16, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 91
Summary:
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [Apr 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 98
Summary:
Offers to go to Henslow despite his own poor health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
