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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.3, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.4-5, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Two page letter from Hooker to Dr Thomas Anderson.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.8-9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

A two page typescript letter to Dr Thomas Anderson

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.10, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

A short letter to Thomas Anderson from Joseph Hooker.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Two paragraph letter to Thomas Anderson.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.233, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.234, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

An undated letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.235, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.236, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Short letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley identifying a Lonicera as L.involuncrata Banks of California. Mentions that William Hookers is in Torquay and Maria Hooker is in Norfolk.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 1
Summary:

High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.

Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.

CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1
Summary:

Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 36
Summary:

CD has learned from Lyell that JDH reviewed Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle writing in Lindley’s style.

Lyell is working on man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 37
Summary:

Very pleased with Asa Gray’s letter to JDH [see 2638], which is "rich on Agassiz".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 38
Summary:

CD preparing historical sketch, which will go into second American edition of Origin.

Asks JDH to copy out Naudin’s line on finality.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 39
Summary:

Urges JDH to work his essays into a book.

CD’s historical sketch ends with JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 40
Summary:

Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture on Origin [10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] an "entire failure" as an exposition of CD’s doctrine.

R. I. Murchison very civil.

CD counts Lyell among the converted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 41
Summary:

Comments on W. H. Harvey’s article on a monstrous Begonia [Gard. Chron. 18 Feb 1860].

Is astonished at being attacked for not allowing great and abrupt variations under nature. More evidence needed to make CD admit that forms have often changed "by saltum".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 42
Summary:

Too ill to go to club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Feb 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 43
Summary:

Applauds JDH’s reply [25 Feb 1860] to W. H. Harvey in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Feb or 4 Mar] 1860
Source of text:
DAR 115: 44
Summary:

Asks JDH for some Goodenia.

Suggests Daniel Oliver try to cross Mimosa, noted for sterility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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