From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 224
Summary:
Coming on Saturday.
Baby and wife pretty well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Anne Maria Barkly (nee Pratt)
Date:
6 August 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.264, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
6 August 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.175-179, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 [Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 83–4
Summary:
Enjoyed JDH’s visit.
Mrs Cameron’s photograph of JDH is grand.
Has heard J. V. Carus will be at Norwich. Suggests JDH mention that Origin was translated by two distinguished naturalists, H. G. Bronn and Carus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Aug 1868
Source of text:
Lund University Library Special Collections (Sven Nilsson papers)
Summary:
Asks JDH to obtain from Sven Nilsson information on whether, in reindeer species in which both sexes are horned, the horns are first developed earlier or later than in species in which males alone have horns.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Aug 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 227–8
Summary:
Reports on Norwich address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e., Asa Gray’s being superseded.
Tyndall says CD and JDH are types of "unconscious merit".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 85–8
Summary:
Pleased at success of JDH’s address. Has read several press reports.
Spectator pitches into JDH about theology ["Dr Hooker on the evidences", 22 Aug 1868, pp. 986–7].
Feels JDH has "immensely advanced the belief in evolution of species".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 229–32
Summary:
The newspapers’ pother about his mild theology.
Tyndall’s reference to JDH and CD as the two "modestest" men in science.
Huxley offended the clergy twice without cause or warrant.
William Hooker ill.
Astronomers do not like JDH’s reference to them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 August 1868
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 229-32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project