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DCP-LETT-799

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 29–31
Summary:

Thanks for pleasant stay at Down.

Remarks on boulders found on southern islands.

Describes the alpine character of the Andes flora and relays information on other mountain floras.

Quotes instances of seeds that retained their vitality after being carried by ocean currents.

Sends notes on the comparative floras of New Zealand, Australia, and west coast of South America.

Encloses a copy of part of a letter from George Gardner in Ceylon concerning the European character of the mountain flora.

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DCP-LETT-800

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 23
Summary:

Thanks for botanico-geographical remarks. CD greatly appreciates JDH’s valuable generalisations.

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DCP-LETT-803

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 24
Summary:

Questions on JDH’s sketch comparing floras of Australia, New Zealand, and western S. America; wishes to know botanical relations between other southern islands. Botanico-geographical discussions and comments on books sent by JDH.

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DCP-LETT-804

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 32–4
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s comments on "sketch".

Lengthy discussion of geographical distribution and island floras.

Has been "delighted with" [Robert Chambers’] Vestiges [of creation (1844)].

Galapagos flora work goes on well.

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DCP-LETT-814

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[7 Jan 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 25
Summary:

Sends specimens of a Tertiary sandstone from Tierra del Fuego in which there are leaves; CD thought they were beech. What is JDH’s opinion?

Asks whether JDH can make sense of a note on silicified wood.

Has read Vestiges [of creation (1844)]; "his geology strikes me as bad, & his zoology far worse".

Would like to see lists [of plants] from Society and Sandwich Islands.

Doubts JDH’s information regarding imagination of mother affecting offspring.

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DCP-LETT-818

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22–30 Jan 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 247–8
Summary:

Sends comparison of the floras of Society and Sandwich Islands.

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DCP-LETT-817

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [Jan 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 26
Summary:

Would like copy of "Galapagos flora" when published ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233].

Will keep JDH’s Pacific island notes till his return.

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DCP-LETT-832

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 165–6
Summary:

Previous letter [missing] on Edinburgh position was ill-tempered. Friends assure him that he ought to be thankful for opportunity to try for professorship.

Reports meeting with Humboldt in Paris.

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DCP-LETT-826

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 27
Summary:

Congratulates JDH and condoles with him on possible position at Edinburgh. Although CD will miss him bitterly, he encourages JDH to view it as a good opportunity.

Sorry to hear that Humboldt is failing.

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DCP-LETT-842

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Mar [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 28
Summary:

Would like to borrow the pamphlet on variation [Frédéric Gérard, "De l’espèce dans les corps organisés" (1844), extract from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, ed. C. D. d’Orbigny].

Glad to hear Humboldt’s views on migration. CD believes we cannot "put any limit to the possible and even probable migration of plants".

Wants good book on plant morphology.

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DCP-LETT-844

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23] Mar 1845
Source of text:
DAR 100: 41–2
Summary:

JDH recommends Augustin de Saint-Hilaire’s Leçons de botanique [1841]. Relates opinions of European botanists on migration and plant distribution.

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DCP-LETT-846

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Mar 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 29
Summary:

Has received pamphlet from JDH [John Murray, Strictures on morphology (1845)].

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DCP-LETT-847

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Mar [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 30
Summary:

Hopes JDH will enjoy Edinburgh.

Has just finished Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on animal monsters [Anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux (1832–7)], "and a nasty curious subject it is".

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DCP-LETT-850

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2–6 Apr 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 219–20
Summary:

A Tasmanian Cyttaria is same species as CD’s Fuegian fungus. Did the species originate on the beeches of Fuegia or of Tasmania?

JDH gives interpretation of Vestiges.

John McCulloch, J. F. Schouw, and Lamarck on the species question.

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DCP-LETT-849

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 Apr 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 31
Summary:

Thanks for information about books.

Murray is publishing CD’s Journal of researches. Would be grateful for a sentence on Galapagos plants.

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DCP-LETT-861

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Apr 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 32
Summary:

Returns specimens and drawings of Confervae with many thanks. Would appreciate any corrections for second edition of Journal of researches.

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DCP-LETT-862

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Apr 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 48
Summary:

First part of "Galapagos flora" ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] finished but not printed.

Details of distribution of Galapagos flora. Peculiarity of island floras.

Leaves for Edinburgh on Wednesday.

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DCP-LETT-863

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[May 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 33
Summary:

Returns notes on Confervae.

Has had information from Ehrenberg on organic forms in Atlantic dust.

Thanks for sketch of Galapagos flora.

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DCP-LETT-864

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 June 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 34
Summary:

JDH’s books have arrived safely.

Is sending him corrected MS of first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.].

Lyells have just visited.

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DCP-LETT-880

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 June 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 35
Summary:

Busy correcting proofs. Thanks for JDH’s remarks; asks him to send any other corrections soon; goes to press with second part of Journal of researches in less than a week.

Urges collections of all kinds on any isolated islands.

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