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DCP-LETT-2440

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 94
Summary:

Hopes Murray will publish after seeing MS [of Origin].

Demurs at JDH’s saying that CD changes climate to account for migration of bugs, flies, etc. "We do nothing of the sort; for we rest on scored rocks, old moraines, arctic shells, and mammifers." Has given up the Lyellian doctrine as insufficient to explain all changes in climate; CD has no theory about the cause of the cold.

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DCP-LETT-2446

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 9
Summary:

Thanks for letter of caution about Murray. He has offered to publish without seeing MS. CD thinks book will be popular to a certain extent. Lyell’s inducing Murray to publish Origin grates CD’s pride.

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DCP-LETT-2450

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 10
Summary:

Has read first sheets of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [introductory] essay [published separately as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. Criticises lack of evidence supporting views that best marked varieties occur at edges of range of species and that species remain under cultivation for many generations and suddenly begin to vary.

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DCP-LETT-2444

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8–11 Apr 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 127
Summary:

Lyell has been strongly urging John Murray to publish CD’s book [Origin]. JDH feels Lyell overestimates the public interest in such works.

Gives examples of plants showing most marked varieties on the edge of their range.

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HENSLOW-287

From:
W. H. Miller
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 April 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2452

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Apr [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 11
Summary:

Murray has read first three chapters of Origin and abides by his offer to publish.

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DCP-LETT-2453

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 [Apr 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 12
Summary:

CD agrees cultivated plants may begin to vary after some time and then may vary suddenly, but cautions JDH on lack of evidence. His explanation is that small variations are ignored until they accumulate.

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HENSLOW-598

From:
Lord Ducie
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 April 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 130
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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HENSLOW-524

From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 April 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 337
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2454

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Apr 1859
Source of text:
DAR 206 (Letters)
Summary:

Questions about stripes on mules.

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DCP-LETT-2456

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1859
Source of text:
DAR 177: 192 (fragile)
Summary:

Reports his observations on the habits of slave-making ants (Formica sanguinea).

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 May [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 13
Summary:

CD favours occurrence of reversions, although lack of experiments forces one to vague opinions. Reversions oppose only the inheritance not the occurrence of variation. Discusses relation of reversion, direct influence of conditions, and selection.

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DCP-LETT-2442

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 43
Summary:

Discusses WED’s plans for the summer.

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FL-0292

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[6 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-2458

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 May [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 14
Summary:

JDH’s comments on style of Origin MS leave CD confused.

CD advises on how to get Acacia to set seed.

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DCP-LETT-2461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 15
Summary:

JDH finds style of CD’s MS obscure.

CD wary of JDH’s starting point on variability: it is not inherent, it does not lead necessarily to divergence, and it must be distinguished from inheritance.

Asa Gray has misread CD’s views on pre-glacial migrations and botched the subject.

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DCP-LETT-2463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 16
Summary:

Too ill to examine proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt III].

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DCP-LETT-2464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 17
Summary:

Returning from Moor Park. CD will take up proofs of JDH’s Flora Tasmaniae.

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FL-0395

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0396

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. 29 May 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 25
Summary:

No summary available.

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