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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 53–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 17a: 117)
Summary:

Sends seeds from R. L. Playfair in Algiers.

F. Delpino writes asking where M. A. Curtis has published physiological observations on Dionaea ["Enumeration of plants growing spontaneously around Wilmington, North Carolina", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (1834–7): 82–140; see Insectivorous plants, p. 301 n.].

Talk with Duke of Argyll on CD’s and Wallace’s views on man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1870
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 103: 53-4
Summary:

Hooker recalls his recent conversation with the Duke of Argyll about ARW's theory of the evolution of man.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 July [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 179–180
Summary:

Has not heard of Curtis on Dionaea.

Duke of Argyll is clever, but it is a sin to speak of a real old Duke as a "little beggar".

"My theology is a simple muddle: I cannot look at the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent Design."

On spontaneous generation and Bastian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21 July 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.165 + 163, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 July 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.166-167, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 August 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.168, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 August 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.169, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
24 August 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.14, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.170, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.15, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Sept 1870
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 307)
Summary:

Discusses germination of charlock after a long interval.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 57–9
Summary:

Reports on the 1870 BAAS meeting at Liverpool. Huxley’s address was over the heads of the laymen.

Tyndall’s was eloquent to listen to, disappointing to read.

George Rolleston’s "Rococo" address [Nature 2 (1870): 423–7, 442–6].

Murchison.

Lyell.

Has done an immense lot of work.

Regrets CD has not kept the simple title "Origin of man" [for Descent].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 181–3
Summary:

Comments on JDH’s report of Liverpool meeting.

Huxley’s address.

Sir Roderick [Murchison]’s "apotheosis".

Tyndall’s lecture is "grand" except for egotistical beginning. Some Frenchmen have pitched into CD for using the "as if" reasoning, which Tyndall shows is justified.

Has just read George Rolleston’s address in Nature.

Anton Dohrn says German public have high opinion of Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
30 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.128-129, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 60
Summary:

Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Oct [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 184–5
Summary:

Does not think so poorly of Nature as JDH does, by any means; fears Popular Science Review is rather ephemeral but more durable than Nature.

The case of the charlock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Fraser Tolmie
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 October 1870
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC 195 folio 164
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 November 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH compliments Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] on his paper on 'Spontaneous Generation & Evolution' & hopes that it is a prelude to further research into the chemistry of vegetation as JDH believes there is no better man to do it. JDH is currently reading John Tyndall's paper 'On the Actions of Rays of High Refrangibility upon Gaseous Matter' in PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON & he is struck by Tyndall's remarks on the decomposition of carbonic acid, by solar rays, in the leaves of plants. JDH says that he had thought about this independently & believes it would make a good research subject. Has heard that Dr P[ercival] Wright it going to Algeria for the winter. JDH hopes that he has left the key to the [Trinity College] Herbarium for them.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
20 November 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.279, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
7 December 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.16, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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