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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Hooker Project
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
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 January 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.33-34, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH thanks Asa Gray for sending him some apples. He & Mr Smith compare the variety sent, the 'Northern Spy', to English apples including the 'Ribstone Pippen' & the 'Nonsuch'. Discusses his work on the Rubiaceae family including the genera: Psychotria, Cephaelis, Nonateleiae[?], Rudgea ,Palicourea, Chasalia & Grumilea. Next he will work on Borreroids, including Hedyotoids. George Bentham is working on Compositae, currently struggling with Gnaphalia. JDH's wife, Frances Hooker, has finished translating Decaisne & Maout & Hooker himself did some work on the introduction. [John Gilbert] Baker is working on Monocots. [Thomas] Thomson is neglecting his work on the FLORA INDICA & there are problems with the printing & the length. JDH intends to take over editorship & organize it into a shorter manual with the different orders contributed by expert authors. JDH's mother, Lady Maria Hooker, is ill in Torquay but recovering. JDH thanks Gray for Cytinus, Apodanthes, a paper on Galax & his attention to Rubiaceae. JDH must put off his trip to California, he worries he is getting too old but takes comfort that Sir H. Holland just went over the Blue mountains of Jamaica aged over 80. Murchison has Hemiplegia & has resigned himself to death, his likely successor as President of the Geographical Society is Sir H. Rawlinson. Letter appears incomplete & is unsigned but is written in the hand of Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 January 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.3, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH asks if William Thiselton-Dyer would be willing to contribute descriptions of orders, genera & species for a proposed flora of India & outlines the terms of employment.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 186–7
Summary:
Finished the last proofs of Descent a few days ago. "I shall be well abused."
St George Mivart’s Genesis [of species]: very good, unfortunately theological. Will tell heavily against natural selection but not against evolution, and this is "infinitely more important".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
22 January 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.17-18, 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