From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 34
Summary:
Time of his arrival.
Will bring bark story with him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Oct [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 155
Summary:
Sends letter from Candolle [6915] proposing an experiment with seeds that seems excellent. CD has little time and strength but will do his best. If the staff at Kew could do it, it would be wisest to hand the whole lot over to JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Oct 1869
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 123)
Summary:
Is glad that JDH is willing to try Candolle’s experiment [see 6915]. Encloses all the seeds except a few taken from the Moscow and Palermo packets.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 156–8
Summary:
Congratulates JDH on his becoming a C.B.
Hard at work on sexual selection – weary of everlasting males and females, cocks and hens.
Has read J. H. Stirling vs Huxley on protoplasm [As regards protoplasm (1869)]
and E. B. Tylor on survival of old thoughts in modern civilisation.
Bentham’s Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [see 6793] is worth its weight in gold in making converts. C. J. F. Bunbury is impressed by it.
Likes JDH’s review of K. F. Schimper’s work [Paléontologie végétale, in Nature 1 (1869): 48].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 35—8
Summary:
Describes how the offer of C.B. was made. He declined a knighthood. Murchison and Lyell are trying to get him made Knight Commander of the Star of India, but he does not think there is a chance. The Duke [of Argyll?] might do it, but does not like JDH’s Darwinism.
Next Presidency of Royal Society discussed: all (Brodie, the X Club botanists, et al.) are agreed on Lyell.
Everyone is disappointed with Nature.
What did CD think of "Huxley’s rhapsody on Goethe’s ditto" [Nature 1 (1869): 9–11]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 159–61
Summary:
Glad to know about C.B.
Thinks better of Nature than JDH does.
Likes Academy.
Is reading Anton Kerner on Tubocytisus [in Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzen von Klima und Boden (1869)].
The genealogical tree reveals the very steps of the formation of the species.
Mlle Royer has brought out a third edition of her translation of the Origin without informing CD, so corrections to fourth and fifth English editions are lost. Has arranged for a new translator of the fifth English edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 39–41
Summary:
Has corresponded with Macmillan about Nature.
Will get the Kerner book.
Mere guesses must determine which form to fix on as the type.
Raises questions about the genealogical tree.
Serves Mlle Royer right.
Lyell declines Royal Society Presidency; now look to W. R. Grove. Long postscript on JDH’s views about knighthood.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
23 November 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.12, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 162–3
Summary:
Sends title of Kerner’s book [see 6997] and comments that AK does not give the one parent form of the genus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
31 December 1869
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.130, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project