From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 125–7
Summary:
Urges Frank to reconsider his refusal of Cambridge Examinership.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 481–2
Summary:
Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 485–8
Summary:
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 128–30
Summary:
JDH criticises John Ball’s theory of origin of higher plants in Carboniferous highlands, where low carbon dioxide levels permitted survival.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 489–90
Summary:
Searching for the right gardener.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 131–2
Summary:
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Halls (dealers) (29 July 2009)
Summary:
Will get in touch with young gardener about terms of employment. It is good of Hooker to remember about heliotropism of insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 133
Summary:
JDH requests specimens from Miss [Sophy] Wedgwood.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 185–6)
Summary:
Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Nov [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 191)
Summary:
Wants seedling of Quercus rubra or Q. coccinea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 134–5
Summary:
Congratulations on Erasmus Darwin; likes CD’s part better than Ernst Krause’s.
Received false notice of Asa Gray’s death.
Gray and JDH engaged in comparing widely separated but floristically similar regions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 193–4)
Summary:
Movement of cotton plant cotyledons.
Thanks JDH for his praise of Erasmus Darwin.
Delighted that JDH is thinking about geographical distribution, wishes he would go over the New Zealand flora again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 491-3
Summary:
About Miss Buckley's concerns for ARW's ill-health and his desire to obtain regular partially outdoor work, or indoor work that can be partially done from home. Darwin suggests to Hooker that they might advocate for ARW to receive a government pension given ARW's scientific achievements.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 95: 491–3
Summary:
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 136–7
Summary:
Argues against pension for Wallace because of his spiritualism; the underhanded way he brought about discussion of spiritualism at BAAS; his pocketing money from a bet on the sphericity of the earth; his lack of absolute poverty.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 104: 136-7
Summary:
Hooker argues against Darwin's suggestion that ARW receive a government pension.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 95: 494-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 494–5
Summary:
JDH convinces CD not to press for pension for Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
