From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
19 Jan [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 130
Summary:
Further comments on JAHdeB’s MS.
Contributor:
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From:
Archibald Billing
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 February 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 26
Summary:
Explains the difference between the terms bort and carbonate with reference to jewellery manufacture and offers to send JSH more bort dust.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 86–9
Summary:
Is relieved his book [Himalayan journals] has been well received and glad he has successfully completed it.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 118
Summary:
Thanks JDH for dedication of Himalayan journals. CD praises the work and suggests stylistic revisions.
Lyell’s remarks on lava beds in letter from Madeira are not original – they refer exclusively to Élie de Beaumont’s data.
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From:
R. G. Latham
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 March 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 119
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 119
Summary:
More praise for Himalayan journals.
How remote was glacial action in Himalayas?
Implies Himalayas were birthplace of many plants.
Final volume of Cirripedia to be printed in two or three months.
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From:
Richard Dawes
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 March 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 108
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 Mar 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 382
Summary:
JDH summarises letter from Humboldt.
JDH answers CD’s questions on glacial action in Himalayas.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 120
Summary:
CD welcomes the prospect of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society as means for seeing old acquaintances and making new ones. Will try to go up to London regularly.
Admits that the warning from JDH and Asa Gray (that more harm than good will come from combat over the species issue) makes him feel "deuced uncomfortable".
Reflects upon the complexity of Agassiz; how singular that a man of his eminence and immense knowledge "should write such wonderful stuff & bosh".
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [May 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 122
Summary:
CD "lectures" JDH on taking care of his health.
CD’s pleasure in London trip.
CD and Emma have taken season tickets to Crystal Palace.
Edward Forbes’s "Introductory Lecture" is the best CD ever read.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 June 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 202–4
Summary:
Birth of JDH’s second child.
Asks CD’s view of "highness" and "lowness" in animals. Gives his own for plants; extent of deviation from type, e.g., floral parts deviating from leaf.
Reading B. C. Brodie’s Psychological inquiries [1854].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [June 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 121
Summary:
CD gives his definition of "highness" and "lowness" as "morphological differentiation" from a common embryo or archetype. JDH’s view, with which CD agrees when it can be applied, is the same as Milne-Edwards’, i.e., the physiological division of labour. There is little agreement among zoologists and CD admits his own lack of clarity.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 June 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 383
Summary:
JDH on "highness" of Coniferae: they are genuine Dicotyledons, not a link to cryptogams; that is a geologists’ fallacy. Thus they are highest plants in Carboniferous.
Does not agree with CD’s "elastic" species theory. Long correspondence with Lyell on this.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 July [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 123
Summary:
CD’s view requires only that ancient organisms resemble embryological stages of existing ones. Thus "highness" in plants is difficult to evaluate because they have no larval stages. Would compare highest members of two groups, rather than archetype, to determine which group was higher. Against Forbes’s polarity and parallelism.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
16 Aug [1854-8]
Source of text:
DAR 224
Summary:
Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.
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From:
Joseph George Cumming
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 August 1854
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 105
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 384
Summary:
JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.
Insects found in coal.
Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.
JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
26 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 272
Summary:
Discusses specimen of Balanus crenatus.
Sorry JP’s children are ill.
Will come to Liverpool if well [for meeting of BAAS].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[Sept 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 8 (EH 88206457)
Summary:
Sends beetle he cannot identify.
Reading J. O. Westwood [Introduction to the modern classification of insects (1839–40)] has reawakened his passion for entomology.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Sept [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 124
Summary:
On individuality.
Huxley’s review exquisite, but too severe on Vestiges; sorry for ridicule of Agassiz’s embryonic fishes.
Stonesfield mammals.
J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society Medal.
Will begin species work in a few days.
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