From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 140–1
Summary:
Can Alphonse de Candolle see CD?
Asa Gray at Kew; will meet JDH in Italy in December.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 142–5
Summary:
Praise for Movement in plants, lately arrived.
Praise for Wallace’s Island life
and astonishment that he could be a spiritualist.
Differs with Wallace on age of SW. Australian flora. JDH ascribes its peculiarities to isolation by an inland sea.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 496–9
Summary:
Admires Wallace’s Island life.
Criticises: 1. His view of similar plants on distant mountains – CD prefers previous low-land connections to Wallace’s summit–summit dispersal;
2. Source of warmth for ancient Arctic climate;
3. Origin of S. Australian flora.
CD’s favourite cases in Movement in plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 500–1
Summary:
Wants to see Frank become F.R.S. before he dies.
Pities Wallace and wants a pension for him very much.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 146–7
Summary:
Quality of Frank’s work merits F.R.S., but quantity could defer speedy election. Will advise best strategy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 502–3
Summary:
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 148–9
Summary:
Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 504–5
Summary:
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 95: 507–8
Summary:
On Wallace’s pension and Frank’s F.R.S.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 138–9
Summary:
The debt of plant geography to voyages may be JDH’s topic at BAAS meeting [at Swansea].
Photographs from New Zealand forwarded.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Feb 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 509–12
Summary:
Island life continues to stimulate: Wallace ignores effects of glaciers on alpine flora and generally exaggerates those of débâcles and wind dispersal. CD encourages JDH to prepare a geographical address including history of geographical distribution.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 150–1
Summary:
Has struggled for months with complexity of structure and distribution of palms for Genera plantarum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 513–15
Summary:
CD complains of discomfort, but has not the strength for a project that would let him forget it.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 152–3
Summary:
At 63 JDH still works hard to support his family. Many friends have died. Memories of times past spent with CD lift his pessimism.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 516–17
Summary:
Cheered by JDH’s friendly words.
Wishes he could help JDH with geographical distribution, but the subject has gone out of his mind.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 154–7
Summary:
Outlines address to York BAAS meeting on history of geographical distribution. Organising theme: advancement in this science based on ideas enunciated by scientific voyagers. Asks CD’s advice.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 518–23
Summary:
Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.
Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".
Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.
Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 158–61
Summary:
Working on York BAAS address; finds CD’s comments helpful. JDH writes detailed response and expansion.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 524–7
Summary:
Responds to JDH on history of plant geography.
Opinion of Humboldt.
Origin of higher phanerogams.
Importance of the occurrence of south temperate forms in the Northern Hemisphere.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 162–3
Summary:
Is making final preparations for his address [at York BAAS meeting] and questions CD on specific points.
Contributor:
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