From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
14 September 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.237-240, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 88–9; DAR 103: 221; Insectivorous plants , p. 5 n.
Summary:
Thiselton-Dyer’s announcement of his inability to continue as JDH’s private secretary is a blow. He will now be doing original work. JDH is glad of that but the loss of his help is great.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Sept [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 336–7
Summary:
Describes his observations on Utricularia montana.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 338
Summary:
Asks JDH to cut a bit of root from old Utricularia and bring it with him to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 224–5
Summary:
CD’s Utricularia findings – bladders, subterranean roots, and insects decomposing in them – a grand discovery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[William Henry Smith]
Date:
24 September 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.99, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 339
Summary:
Queries about species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 93–94
Summary:
Information about various species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 [Sept 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 340–341
Summary:
The Aldrovanda has arrived. Has examined the leaves. It is an aquatic Dionaea which has acquired some structures identical to those of Utricularia!
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 421–422
Summary:
Thanks JDH for extract on Hedychium pollination; it shows CD’s prior interpretation was incorrect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 October 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer if the proof of his 'address' has been sent to the publisher, Griffith. JDH describes his present location, Alderley Grange in Wotton under Edge, as 'a lovely place'. Whilst there he is working on the Royal Society address & the 'Primer' [refers to the series of 'Science Primer' books published by Macmillan, for which Hooker wrote the volume entitled BOTANY (1876)]. The following week JDH will go to Bewdley, then to stay with [George] Maw at Broseley, Shropshire, before returning to Kew. In a post script JDH adds that he has read & enjoyed CRUISE ON WHEELS [by Charles Allston Collis] & is now reading [George Eliot's] SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, the best thing he has read in years, either fact or fiction. He specifically mentions the story JANET'S REPENTANCE.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 341a
Summary:
Asks JDH for leaves of Byblis and Roridula to examine, and D. Oliver for an anomalous species of Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 226–7
Summary:
Oliver will attend to his letter.
Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.
Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.
His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
28 October 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.77, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
-11-1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.23, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer to give his opinion on a letter JDH has drafted to the Trustees of the British Museum, concerning JDH's Antarctic collections. Daniel Oliver has already given his opinion but does not consider JDH's position regarding the Royal Society. A copy of the letter will be sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury [Archibald Tait]. JDH refers to an enclosed magnolia [not present] which Alexander MacCleay calls fuscata but which differs from the plants under that name at RBG Kew.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Louis Pasteur
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 November 1874
Source of text:
MM/5/53, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 342
Summary:
Extremely glad to have JDH come to Down. It is wise of JDH to exert himself and face the inevitable as well as he can. [Death of JDH’s wife, 13 Nov.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 228–9; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/1/14/f. 54)
Summary:
Encloses a letter [from Huxley about his invitation to lecture at Edinburgh]. Has done his best to dissuade Huxley from accepting the burden.
JDH’s depression in bereavement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 November 1874
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 10, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 345–6
Summary:
Quite agrees with JDH on inadvisability of Huxley’s taking on the Edinburgh lectures.
Is awaiting JDH’s memorial to the Board [of Works?] on his burdensome duties.
Glad to hear JDH finds ease in his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
- Hooker, J. D.
- Darwin, C. R.54
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner13
- Barkly, Henry8
- Gray, Asa6
- Busk, George3
- Bolus, Henry2
- Babington, Professor Charles Cardale1
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph1
- Grant Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone1
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton1
- Pasteur, Louis1
- Smith, William Henry?1
- Trail, James William Helenus1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- [Gray, Asa]1
- [Smith, William Henry]1