From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 39
Summary:
Anxious to hear of JDH’s prospects [at Edinburgh].
Has completed his Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 Sept 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 40
Summary:
Condolences on JDH’s grandfather’s death.
When his wife can move, they will go to Staffordshire.
Returns some books; would like to see copy of Kosmos [by Alexander von Humboldt]. Would be proud owner of JDH’s work [Flora Antarctica (1844–7)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Sept 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 41
Summary:
Going to Shrewsbury on Monday.
Means to attempt the question of species: "though I shall get more kicks than half-pennies, I will, life serving, attempt my work".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Sept 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 42
Summary:
Kosmos [by Alexander von Humboldt] has arrived safely.
CD acknowledges his presumption in speculating on variation without having worked out his due share of species, but "for nine years it has been anyhow the greatest amusement to me".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Oct 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 43
Summary:
Sorry to hear JDH did not get Edinburgh chair. Invites him to Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Oct [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 44
Summary:
Would like to see JDH’s testimonials.
Disappointed with Kosmos.
Has visited Dean of Manchester, who is very heterodox on species.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 or 12] Nov 1845
Source of text:
DAR 114: 45
Summary:
Thanks for Antarctic flora [Flora Antarctica (1844–7)].
Agrees geographical distribution will be "the key which will unlock the mystery of species".
Could JDH look over a rough sketch on species?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 46
Summary:
Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.
"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."
Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 47
Summary:
Is busy with shell work and cannot make it to Kew. Invites JDH to Down. Intends asking Edward Forbes and Hugh Falconer.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 48
Summary:
Can JDH come to Down on 6 December? If this is convenient, CD will ask Forbes, Falconer, and perhaps Waterhouse.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 49
Summary:
Delighted that JDH will come to visit him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Dec 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 50
Summary:
CD’s enjoyment of JDH’s visit and "all our raging discussions".
Would like to compare insects from Kerguelen Islands with those from Tierra del Fuego.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 53
Summary:
Disappointed with Webb and Berthelot.
Delighted to hear of more species from the Galapagos, surprised to hear W. Indian character of flora.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 51
Summary:
Will come to visit Kew if Claude Gay speaks English. Otherwise would prefer to wait until spring.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8? Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 52
Summary:
Will visit JDH in spring.
Will JDH ask Gay what birds, reptiles, or mammifers inhabit Juan Fernández [Island]?
Has JDH seen William Herbert’s paper ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 54
Summary:
Thinks JDH’s explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands is probably correct.
Proposes experimental test to see whether alpine form of a plant is inherited like a true variety.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 54c
Summary:
Has had to make a Post Office order to JDH payable at Charing Cross instead of Kew.
Does Sir William [Hooker] know the Dean of Manchester’s London address?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb – 2 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56c
Summary:
Sends enclosure for JDH to read [letter from E. Forbes, 956]. "I cannot see my way about his post-miocene land."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 55
Summary:
Glad to hear of JDH’s botanical appointment [with Geological Survey].
Edward Forbes has written about his subsidence doctrine; CD objects to its hypothetical base.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56
Summary:
Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.
Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.
Contributor:
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