From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 45
Summary:
CD’s list of fifteen converts. His opinions on opponents and supporters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 46
Summary:
Lyell and CD would urge JDH to make his essays into a book, but see he has embarked on a huge project with G. Bentham [Genera plantarum, 3 vols. (1862–83)].
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
14 March 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 9537.2.14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Mar 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 47
Summary:
JDH coming to Down. Huxley will be invited.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 48
Summary:
Sends a letter concerning priority [of Patrick Matthew] for JDH to read and post.
Angered at Owen’s review.
Huxley’s Royal Institution lecture ends well.
Contributor:
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
14 April 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 9537.2.16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 49
Summary:
What a base dog Owen is for praising his own work in reviewing Origin [anonymously].
J. H. Balfour is narrow-minded.
CD cannot understand pollination of Goodenia.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 139–40
Summary:
CD’s observations on curved styles read well. JDH seeks morphological rationale of curvature in the position of nectaries.
He has avoided lecturing to Royal Family’s children at Buckingham Palace.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 50
Summary:
CD intrigued by the pollination mechanism of Leschenaultia formosa.
CD interested in Thomas Bell’s rumour that Owen avows his review.
Curved styles and their relation to pollination.
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
27 April 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 9537.2.15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 67 (EH 88206050)
Summary:
Sends list of plants with asymmetry in nectar-secreting surfaces and pistils bent in that direction. Shows insect agency so important that structure has changed. Asks for contrary or confirming examples and that request be passed on to Daniel Oliver.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 150–1, DAR 166.2: 262
Summary:
Has examined Leschenaultia and concludes the external viscid surfaces have nothing to do with the stigmatic surface. Agrees with CD’s style and nectary conclusions; accounts for their form and position in irregular flowers by describing floral development.
[Enclosed are some queries by CD with answers by JDH. Gives information on seed setting by Mucuna
and an opinion on the abruptness of N. and S. limits of plant ranges.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 51
Summary:
JDH has settled the Leschenaultia case, but it remains a difficulty to CD.
Goodenia, like bee orchid, seems a case of a structure with an evident function, which is not carried out. Is curvature of styles an incidental result of growth or a pollination adaptation?
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
25th May 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 9537.2.17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 52
Summary:
To understand Leschenaultia pollination CD requires field observations in the native country.
Has observed two forms of cowslips, which he calls male and female. The same two forms are found in primroses.
Contributor:
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From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 May 1860
Source of text:
MS Add. 9537/2
Summary:
Describes Sedgwick’s attack on CD’s views [at Cambridge Philosophical Society] and his own defence, though he believes CD has pressed his hypothesis too far.
Contributor:
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
10th May 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 9537.2.18
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
10 May 1860
Source of text:
R. A. Hooker
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 May – 3 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 217 (Letters), DAR 47: 214
Summary:
CD’s divergent series explains those anomalous plants that hover between what would otherwise be two species in a genus.
Inclined to see conifers as a sub-series of dicotyledons that developed in parallel to monocotyledons, but retained cryptogamic characters.
Mentions H. C. Watson’s view of variations.
Man has destroyed more species than he has created varieties.
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 53
Summary:
Dissection of Leschenaultia convinces CD insect agency necessary for self-fertilisation in this case.
Primroses and cowslips seem universally to occur in two forms. Very curious to see which plants set seed.
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Addressee
Correspondent
- Hooker, J. D.
- Darwin, C. R.628
- Anderson, Dr Thomas52
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph39
- Bentham, George19
- Cunningham, Robert Oliver13
- Gray, Asa13
- Barkly, Henry12
- Darwin, Emma11
- Wedgwood, Emma11
- Wallace, Alfred Russel8
- Bolus, Henry7
- Henslow, J. S.7
- Barkly (nee Pratt), Lady Anne Maria6
- Babington, Professor Charles Cardale5
- Munro, General William5
- Bates, Henry Walter3
- Gunn, Reverend John3
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton3
- Baker, John Gilbert2
- Watson, H. C.2
- Adams Sr., Charles Francis1
- Campbell, William Hunter1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Grant Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone1
- Gray, John Edward1
- Harvey, W. H.1
- Herschel, John1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Nilsson, Sven1
- Smith, Archibald1
- Smith, Mrs Susan Emma1
- Spruce, Richard1
- Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick1