From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
1 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.266-267, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
5 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.268-269, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
11 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.115-116, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 280
Summary:
In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 53–4
Summary:
Is in a mess with his correspondence and will get no assistance before 1 April.
Has agreed to give an address on the Darwinian theory at Nottingham [meeting of BAAS].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
19 January 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.154-155, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 281
Summary:
Has found Verlot.
His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].
His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.
JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.
Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 55–6
Summary:
Sorrow about Mrs Langton. Has been haunted by death these six or eight years. Now cannot bear to look at children asleep in bed – a sight he once thought the loveliest thing in creation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Gilbert Baker
Date:
26 January 1866
Source of text:
BAK/1 f.99, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 57–8
Summary:
Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.
Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
17 February 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.88-89, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
19 February 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.270, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 59, 62–4
Summary:
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 or 27] Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 65–6; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 156: 1048)
Summary:
Lyell wants to see JDH’s last letter [the part on glacial periods]. Lyell full of concern about astronomical causes of heat and cold on the globe.
Encloses letter from John Scott.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 31–2
Summary:
Refers to part of JDH letter on glacial period sent on to Lyell. CD will not yield. Cannot think how JDH attaches so much attention to physicists. Has "come not to care at all for general beliefs without the special facts".
His health is improved but not so good as JDH supposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
16 March 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.90-91, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 68
Summary:
Asks to visit Down on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 67
Summary:
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 282, 282b
Summary:
Extensive discussion of Pangenesis in reply to JDH’s comments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 286
Summary:
Queries for John Smith [Kew curator] on crossing a cucumber variety.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
