From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 85
Summary:
Health bad, cannot get to Kew.
Will send Nulliporae to [L. A.?] Reeve.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Apr [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 84
Summary:
JDH’s proposed India trip.
Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.
CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.
Contributor:
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Apr 1847
Source of text:
DAR 47: 156–9
Summary:
[Copy made by CD’s amanuensis.] Discusses the rarity of intermediate forms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Apr 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 86
Summary:
Thanks for H. C. Watson’s interesting letter. Disagrees with him on intermediate varieties.
CD has read latest numbers of JDH’s The botany of the Antarctic voyage [pt I, Flora Antarctica (1844–7)]; notes several sentences against "us Transmutationists".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 89
Summary:
Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.
Has acquired a new microscope.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 91
Summary:
CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 92
Summary:
Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 87
Summary:
CD would like to call on JDH.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 88
Summary:
Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 90
Summary:
Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 93
Summary:
Encloses quasi-hybrid Laburnum.
Suggests a new view of symmetry of flowers.
Will discuss coal and species sketch at Oxford [BAAS meeting (1847)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 94
Summary:
Gives further details on peculiar Laburnum.
Can JDH lend him a full treatise on grafting?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 95
Summary:
Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 96
Summary:
CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 97
Summary:
JDH’s books have arrived.
Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 101
Summary:
Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 98
Summary:
Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.
Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 99
Summary:
Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 100
Summary:
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 104
Summary:
Planning a visit to Kew. Wishes to meet H. C. Watson.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Hooker, J. D.
- Darwin, C. R.893
- Wallace, Alfred Russel49
- Henslow, J. S.21
- Darwin, Emma8
- Wedgwood, Emma8
- Tyndall, John4
- Bates, Henry Walter3
- Gray, Asa3
- Tolmie, William Fraser3
- Watson, H. C.3
- Bennett, Arthur2
- Cunningham, Robert Oliver2
- Huxley, Thomas Henry2
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph1
- Campbell, William Hunter1
- Espeut, William Bancroft1
- Evans, Frederick John Owen1
- Faraday, Michael1
- Harvey, W. H.1
- Harvey, William Henry1
- Henslow, F. H.1
- Hooker, F. H.1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Jenyns, G. L.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- MacOwan, Peter1
- Nilsson, Sven1
- Pasteur, Louis1
- Scott, John1
- Scott, Robert Henry1
- Spruce, Richard1
- Thiselton-Dyer, William Turner1
- Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick1
- Trail, James William Helenus1
- Vriese, W. H. de1
- Wallace, A. R.1