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DCP-LETT-1158

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb – 16 [Mar] 1848
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 52–4 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.

Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.

Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.

Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.

Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.

Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.

Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.

CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.

Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1193

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July [1848]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 94 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Brian Hodgson reading CD’s Journal of researches with delight.

Forwarding breeding pamphlets.

JDH recommends P. S. Pallas on degeneration.

CD’s facts on sex in barnacles startling.

Hugh Falconer’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1203

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.

Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.

Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.

Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.

No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.

Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1219

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 131–5 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Physical description of Sikkim mountains.

Travelling through Kinchin snows.

Transported boulders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1220

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 136–7 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Continues prior letter of this date. Has received CD’s [1202]. Thanks CD for saving his correspondence.

Sent "a yarn about species" in October mail.

Some "puerile" JDH letters printed in Athenæum.

Requests CD extract anything valuable from his letters to CD and Lyell for Athenæum.

CD’s complemental males in barnacles wonderful.

Warns CD to drop his battle about perpetuity of names in species descriptions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1247

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 187–8 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Pleasure at receiving CD’s scientific letters to JDH and Hodgson.

The H. Wedgwoods’ pecuniary loss.

Condolences at CD’s father’s death.

Rajah harasses JDH’s work. Lack of supplies, rain, malarial valleys, and landslips make going difficult. Cannot get into Tibet.

"Twenty species [of plants] here [Camp Sikkim] to one there [Tierra del Fuego?] always are asking me the vexed question, ""where do we come from?""."

From observation of terraces descending to steppes and plains of India, he thinks that the Himalayas were once a grand fiord coast.

Has information CD requested on Yangsma valley. JDH’s detailed hypothesis of origin of dam there. Does not agree with CD’s interpretation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1257

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 217–18 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

CD partly right. JDH was calling "stratification" what CD calls "foliation". Answers CD’s question on cleavage foliation in Himalayas. Glacial action.

Charmed by CD’s Admiralty instructions on geology [in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50], but complains he does not give prices of books and instruments he recommends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1371

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1850
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 314–15 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Falconer’s misbehaviour.

Geology of Khashia [Khasi] mountains. Speculations on mountain building and origin of Himalayas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC10

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
17 November 1847
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes from Lisbon regarding his journey, letter sent with one to Miss Henslow. Anticipates good passage as far as Sidon but plans after reaching Egypt are uncertain, he will stay close to G.G. [Governor General]. Discusses how grandfather has invested JDH's money & how to draw money from W. & T.[?] after arrival in Calcutta [Kolkata]. Letter arrived at Portsmouth containing letters of introduction for JDH in Calcutta. Suggests Miss Cracroft would be liked by his family & should visit Kew & wants to know what friends of hers he should visit in India. Mother to forward this information through Mrs Kendal. Reports on progress with V.D.L. [van Diemen's Land] plants to be sent home by Dr Salmon, not Miller, along with the with the Niger m/s [manuscript]. Provisionally calls the new V.D.L. cruciferous plant Bretonia. This & the Fagus called ‘gunnii’ from the m/s of Gunn’s trip should be checked by Pl[anchon?] to see if names are occupied & characters drawn up. Dr Richardson to be informed what ship the plants are sent on so he can send case of bottles by the same via steamer to Barnes. JDH to write again from Gibraltar with account of Lisbon.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC100

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
18 March 1850
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.268-270, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH on his way to Calcutta [Kolkata] to ask Lord Dalhousie & Jung Bahadur together for permission to travel in Nepaul [Nepal]. Resting with cousin of Brian [Houghton] Hodgson's. Discusses Lobb & his collecting: Lobb has a Ward's case full of young Argenteum. Discusses Sikkim incident, Lushington & the General in detail. JDH has arranged & parcelled vast collections, some hundred men's loads. [Hugh] Falconer [HF] has informed JDH of the dispatch of some of his collections by the ship 'Queen' under Captain McLeod. The shipment incl. all of the 1848 collection & part of the 1847 collection incl. the leaf bellows, guns, wood cups & vast chest of museum articles. JDH has sent all his drawings of c.300 species & sketches, incl.fungi. Has drawn around 500 species & plants in total. Also sends a few dried plants chiefly Compositae from 17 to 19 ,000 feet. Tchuka rhubarb is amongst the drawings. Hopes WJH will publish Rhododendron series consecutively in 3 folios fascicules. Has descriptions ready for Apr Southampton mail. The Hodgsonia plate WJH sent is magnificent. If he goes to Nepal JDH hopes to send the desired anther drawing. Discusses telescope, actinometer & compass. Knows nothing of Boott & has not received his Ward's cases. Thomson is collecting Rhododendron dalhousiae, R. argenteum, R. punctatum[?], Orchideae & sundries. At JDH's request HF planted a few seeds of nearly all the Rhododendrons in Ward's cases for RBG Kew. Lord Hardinge writes craving Rhododendron & alpine seeds but JDH has none. Courtenay has left Lord Dalhousie. Also mentions Grey, G.G. [George Gardner], [Archibald] Campbell & Welby Jackson[?]. Discusses the reasons for & against going to Nepal incl. credit of being the greatest Himalayan traveller if he goes in by Sikkim & out by Kumaon. Would not go to Bhotan [Bhutan] without 500 men in front & behind him. Is overloaded with Sikkim politics.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1000

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
30 June 1887
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.4, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1001

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
1 July 1888
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.5-5a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1002

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
6 July 1888
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.6, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1003

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
10 July 1888
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.7-7a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1004

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
15 July 1888
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.8-8a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1005

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
3 October 1888
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1006

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
27 January 1889
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.10, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1007

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
28 June 1889
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1008

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
18 July 1889
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.12-12a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1009

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Joseph Symonds Hooker
Date:
1 April 1890
Source of text:
JDH/2/7 f.13-13a, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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