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DCP-LETT-818

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22–30 Jan 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 247–8
Summary:

Sends comparison of the floras of Society and Sandwich Islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-832

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 165–6
Summary:

Previous letter [missing] on Edinburgh position was ill-tempered. Friends assure him that he ought to be thankful for opportunity to try for professorship.

Reports meeting with Humboldt in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-844

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23] Mar 1845
Source of text:
DAR 100: 41–2
Summary:

JDH recommends Augustin de Saint-Hilaire’s Leçons de botanique [1841]. Relates opinions of European botanists on migration and plant distribution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-850

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2–6 Apr 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 219–20
Summary:

A Tasmanian Cyttaria is same species as CD’s Fuegian fungus. Did the species originate on the beeches of Fuegia or of Tasmania?

JDH gives interpretation of Vestiges.

John McCulloch, J. F. Schouw, and Lamarck on the species question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-862

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 48
Summary:

First part of "Galapagos flora" ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] finished but not printed.

Details of distribution of Galapagos flora. Peculiarity of island floras.

Leaves for Edinburgh on Wednesday.

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DCP-LETT-884

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[mid-July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 49–50
Summary:

The translation of Humboldt’s Kosmos [Cosmos (1846–58)] is delayed.

Gives instances of peculiar genera with several good species in very small islands. Scarcity of insects on islands.

JDH cannot prove that there is much hybridising, but does not see why there should not be. "Bother variation, development & all such subjects, it is reasoning in a circle I believe after all."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-887

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 100: 51–4
Summary:

Raises some points for revision of CD’s Journal of researches.

Southern island floras. "The more I ponder upon Insular Floras the less inclined I am to admit the mutation of species to any very great amount."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-883

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 43–7
Summary:

Answers CD’s questions relating to the flora of the Galapagos. [See 889.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-910

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 14–15
Summary:

JDH’s grandfather’s death.

Collecting testimonials for the Edinburgh chair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-914

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–9 Sept 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 208–9
Summary:

The most experienced botanists argue for the "validity of species in nature". Against taxonomic "splitters".

CD’s Cape Tres Montes plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-916

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1845
Source of text:
DAR 100: 55–6
Summary:

Thanks for Journal of researches.

Puzzled over pea flower from Cape Tres Montes.

Thinks species a fair and most profitable subject for discussion, but has no formed opinion of his own.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-928

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 57–8
Summary:

Answers CD’s queries arising from Flora Antarctica.

Would like CD to come to town and go over Galapagos plants with him.

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