From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 6 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Tim Lewens (private collection)
Summary:
Asks whether there are dogs in Spain like English pointers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 248
Summary:
Abstract growing to inordinate length.
Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 October 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 249, 249a
Summary:
Darwin tells Hooker he has sent ARW 8 copies of the offprints of Darwin & Wallace (1858).
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 249
Summary:
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 250
Summary:
Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].
JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.
Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 246)
Summary:
Memorial concerning British Museum collection. CD opposes removing the natural history collection of the British Museum to Kensington.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project