From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 158
Summary:
JDH’s "grand speech" on receiving the Royal Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 159
Summary:
Is Bentham’s list of aberrant genera biased by exclusion of genera with many species?
JDH’s belief that Aquilegia varieties are one species is consistent with their great interfertility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 388–90
Summary:
Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.
Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 [Dec 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 148
Summary:
Debates aberrant species, e.g., Ornithorhynchus and Echidna, with JDH. CD argues they are result of extinction having removed intermediate links to allied forms.
Studying effects of disuse in wings of tame and wild ducks.
Tabulations showing that number of species in a genus is not correlated with number of genera in an order.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 391
Summary:
List of most anomalous Leguminosae [from George Bentham].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
