From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2542, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
Friday night
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2543, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 Apr [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 191
Summary:
Independence of variation from climate shown by several plant genera; CD asks for confirmation.
Progressing with book [Natural selection].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Apr 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 198–201
Summary:
JDH cites W. H. Harvey’s observations on Fucus and David Don’s on Juncus as examples of variations that are independent of climate. There are many such cases. Gives his working scheme for categorising variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Apr [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 192
Summary:
Thanks JDH for response on variation. Studying variations that seem correlated with environment, e.g., north vs south, ascending mountains.
CD’s weed garden: observations on slugs killing seedlings.
Seed-salting. One-seventh of the plants of any country could be transported 924 miles by sea and would germinate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
13 April 1857
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.159, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 April 1857?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.120-121, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28th, April, 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2546, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/8/2545, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir Joseph D. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.205
Summary:
JH's letter of resignation was read at a full meeting of the [R.S.L.] club last evening and it was the unanimous wish of those present that JH should not resign.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Apr 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 194
Summary:
Curative power of hydropathy.
General hairiness of alpine plants questioned: direct environmental effect.
CD has long felt JDH is too hard on bad observers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
