From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1846
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-1-1846
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.22, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1846?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.26, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
This is a four page letter over 1 folio.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1846?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.27, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
A one page letter on one folio.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1846?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.28, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
3 page letter over 1 folio
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 53
Summary:
Disappointed with Webb and Berthelot.
Delighted to hear of more species from the Galapagos, surprised to hear W. Indian character of flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 60–2
Summary:
Goes on the assumption that each species has one origin, is immutable, and migrates.
Disagrees with Gaudichaud[-Beaupré] that volcanic island species are polymorphous.
Some mundane genera vary, others do not (Senecio vs Gnaphalium).
John Lindley’s doctrine of longevity of trees is amazing.
Edward Forbes’s health is better.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 51
Summary:
Will come to visit Kew if Claude Gay speaks English. Otherwise would prefer to wait until spring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8? Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 52
Summary:
Will visit JDH in spring.
Will JDH ask Gay what birds, reptiles, or mammifers inhabit Juan Fernández [Island]?
Has JDH seen William Herbert’s paper ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 54
Summary:
Thinks JDH’s explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands is probably correct.
Proposes experimental test to see whether alpine form of a plant is inherited like a true variety.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 54c
Summary:
Has had to make a Post Office order to JDH payable at Charing Cross instead of Kew.
Does Sir William [Hooker] know the Dean of Manchester’s London address?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 February 1846
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.23, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb – 2 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56c
Summary:
Sends enclosure for JDH to read [letter from E. Forbes, 956]. "I cannot see my way about his post-miocene land."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 55
Summary:
Glad to hear of JDH’s botanical appointment [with Geological Survey].
Edward Forbes has written about his subsidence doctrine; CD objects to its hypothetical base.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
28 February 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-3-1846
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.24-25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Mar] 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 63–8
Summary:
Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.
Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
9 March 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56
Summary:
Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.
Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[24 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 57
Summary:
C. G. Ehrenberg wants specimen grasses from Ascension Island.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
