From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 363–4
Summary:
Has not heard from Mivart; CD is convinced he is a hypocrite.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 365–6
Summary:
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 367–8
Summary:
JDH would be rash not to follow advice of his friends. [CD’s] wife and George oppose his writing to Mivart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 369–71
Summary:
Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.
Continues to work on insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 372–3
Summary:
Astonished at JDH’s success versus Galton
and his attack on Murray is superb. Has written a formal letter to Mivart enumerating his offences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 374–6
Summary:
Is provoked by trouble he is having writing Insectivorous plants.
Curious case of an unknown form of Glaucium in earth covered with slag for 1400 years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 377–8
Summary:
Mourns death of Lyell. Wonders whether enough men of science were attached to him to raise a fitting testimonial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 379–81
Summary:
CD on his memory of Lyell. Deeply rejoices that he is to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 382–3
Summary:
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 384–5
Summary:
CD and others now think it advisable to go further than a petition on vivisection, and a bill has been drafted.
F. Delpino’s pamphlet on pitchers ["Sulle pianti a bicchieri", Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 3 (1871): 174–6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 June [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 386–7
Summary:
Has come to Abinger Hall for a rest after Insectivorous plants, soon to appear. Is sick of the accursed subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 388
Summary:
Rejoices at [Thiselton-Dyer’s] appointment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Henry Scott
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 June 1875
Source of text:
MM/14/146, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 95: 389
Summary:
Solicits JDH and others at Kew for signatures to nomination of Francis Darwin for membership of Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Aug [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 390–1
Summary:
Shares Hooker’s feelings about Douglas Galton and Lord Henry Lennox.
Bored with preparing new editions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 392–3
Summary:
R. L. Tait has requested CD send his [Tait’s] paper on Nepenthes to Royal Society. CD considers this a nuisance.
Certificate for G. J. Romanes.
Francis’ experiments on mechanism of twisted seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 394–6
Summary:
Has decided to send R. L. Tait’s paper to the Royal Society.
Will try glycerine on Mimosa but doubts it will have an effect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 397–8
Summary:
Describes observations by his son Horace on the extreme sensitivity of twisted seeds to moisture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 399–400
Summary:
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick John Owen Evans
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 December 1875
Source of text:
MM/21/96, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society