From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
24 January 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.22, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 218–19
Summary:
Heartily glad about Willy.
Has never had Zizania.
Still has Leersia. He cannot make the beast produce.
What slow coaches the Ministers are about the Ayrton affair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
2 February 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.283, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
3 February 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.6, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH asks William Thiselton-Dyer his opinion on the qualifications of Mr Archer to fill the chair of Botany at Dublin, vacated by Thiselton-Dyer. JDH has heard Archer is being prevented from applying in deference to Dr Percival Wright.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[5 Feb 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 105–6
Summary:
Sends a communication [missing] from Gov. J. H. Lefroy of Bermuda.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
unknown addressee
Date:
14 February 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/18 f.94, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 or 23] Feb 1872 or [1, 8 or 15] Mar 1872
Source of text:
Newcastle University Special Collections (Pybus (Professor Frederick) Archive GB186 FP/2/7/35)
Summary:
Suggests a visit to Kew to see the hot houses the following Sunday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
8 March 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.189-191, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 107–8
Summary:
Sends, for signature, a statement approving change in rules of the Leopoldino Academy [Dresden] to be forwarded to CD to sign.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
31 March 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.73, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH asks Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff to speak in 'the House' [of Commons] on behalf of RBG Kew as its scientific function & JDH's role as Director are under threat from [Acton Smee] Ayrton. [Ayrton Controversy]. JDH has attended a committee meeting of the Cabinet at Lord Rippon's, attended by Rippon, Lord Halifax & Mr Cardwell. Ipecacuanha has been introduced to Sikkim, India: propagated from plant RBG Kew sent out in 1866. The Edinburgh plants are still at Calcutta [Kolkata].
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
25 April 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.130, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Summary:
Does not know Dr Mahoney.
Thanks CD for offer of photographs.
His mother’s health is no worse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 109–10
Summary:
The die is cast on Ayrton affair. Lord Derby has called for all of the correspondence, as a result of pressure by men of science on JDH’s behalf.
Has just had a Greenland collection, which supports his views altogether; "I am ready to do fight for these with you."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[13 May 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 111
Summary:
Work will prevent his visiting Down as he had planned.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 112–13
Summary:
More on Ayrton affair. Conduct of Gladstone and the Ministry despicable. They have owned him to be in right but will not raise a finger until exposure in Parliament is imminent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 224
Summary:
Is sorry JDH cannot come to Down.
Hopes the House of Lords "pitch into the accursed fellow" [Ayrton].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 116–17
Summary:
Asks WED to direct bearer of letter to CD, as he has an address [memorial from men of science to W. E. Gladstone] for him to sign.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 220–1
Summary:
Has signed the memorial by men of science with real pleasure. Fears it may be too severe. He told Lady Derby about JDH’s troubles. She said she would tell Lord Derby what he had said.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 114–15
Summary:
Expects the memorial to make Gladstone frantic. Government regrets granting Lord Derby the correspondence and Lubbock has been advised to postpone calling for it in Lower House. This looks fishy. Is exhausted by the affair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
21 June 1872
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.192-193, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Addressee
Correspondent
- Hooker, J. D.
- Darwin, C. R.331
- Gray, Asa73
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner66
- Barkly, Henry27
- Hooker (nee Symonds, then Jardine), Lady Hyacinth25
- Bolus, Henry23
- Duthie, John Firminger16
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph14
- Bentham, George13
- Grant Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone8
- Hooker (nee Henslow), Frances Harriet8
- Munro, General William5
- unknown addressee4
- Barkly (nee Pratt), Lady Anne Maria3
- Busk, George3
- Darwin, Emma3
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton3
- Smith, William Henry3
- Wedgwood, Emma3
- [Gray, Asa]3
- Babington, Professor Charles Cardale2
- Cunningham, Robert Oliver2
- Evans, Frederick John Owen2
- Feilden, Colonel Henry Wemyss2
- La Touche, Reverend James Digues de2
- Spottiswoode, William2
- Baker, John Gilbert1
- Bebb, Mr Michael Schuck1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Darwin, William Erasmus1
- Drummond-Hay, John Hay1
- Elliot, Walter1
- Henslow, F. H.1
- Hodgson (nee Townshend), Susan1
- Hooker (nee Turner), Lady Maria1
- Hooker, F. H.1
- Jenyns, G. L.1
- Lingen, Baron Ralph Robert Wheeler1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Nares, George Strong1
- Northcote, Earl Stafford Henry1
- Pasteur, Louis1
- Rama V (King of Siam [Thailand]), King of Siam (Thailand) Chulalongkorn1
- Scott, John1
- Scott, Robert Henry1
- Smith, Mrs Susan Emma1
- Smith, William Henry?1
- Symonds (nee Kent), Mrs Hyacinth Catherine1
- Thomson, Charles Wyville1
- Whitworth, Joseph1
- Williamson, Alexander William1
- [Darwin, Charles Robert]1
- [Hart, Henry Chichester]1
- [Smith, William Henry]1