From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 223
Summary:
Request for plants.
CD’s continuing ill health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 188
Summary:
List of four plants sent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 224
Summary:
Request for plant.
Receipt of Oliver’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26[–7] Mar [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 225
Summary:
John Scott has left Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Asks JDH to ask Tyndall whether Frankland exaggerates the effect of snowfall on advance of European glaciers.
Huxley and Falconer squabble too much in public.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 193–7
Summary:
John Scott’s career.
Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.
Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.
Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 226a–b
Summary:
Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 198–200, 203; DAR 104: 222
Summary:
JDH explains why he cannot take Scott on at Kew.
John Tyndall cannot answer CD’s questions on glaciers. Edward Frankland’s ignorance. In JDH’s opinion, heaviness of winter snowfall is the greatest element in size of glaciers and this is a function of low mean temperature. Discusses descent of glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 202
Summary:
JDH has written to J. H. Balfour for a character reference for John Scott.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 227a–c
Summary:
Sees difficulty of placing Scott at Kew. Suspects Balfour is prejudiced because Scott is a Darwinian.
CD’s former letter on Clematis [4403] blundered; work now being revised.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311)
Summary:
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 228
Summary:
CD apologises for having asked JDH to help him with Scott and now seeks advice on how to break the news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 206–7
Summary:
Men of Scott’s Celtic temperament are very troublesome. Tries to dissuade CD from hiring him as a scientific gardener.
George Rolleston, not Spencer, wrote review of Schleiden [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 187–99].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 229
Summary:
CD has told Scott not to hope for help from JDH.
Health improving.
Hopes to write Lythrum paper soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 [Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 230
Summary:
Another plea to take Scott on at Kew. Emma begs CD not to employ him at Down.
Has just received a long article on the Origin from D. J. Brown, an Edinburgh baker [see 4464].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 208–13
Summary:
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 231
Summary:
CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.
Leersia.
Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 or 27] Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 214–17
Summary:
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 232
Summary:
Emma prepares JDH for his visit to Wedgwood factory and Barlaston.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 92
Summary:
Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 218–19
Summary:
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
Contributor:
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