From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
18 April 1858
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.152, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Apr 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 232
Summary:
Confidential revelation concerning W. F. Daniell.
Georg Hartung confirms CD’s supposition from flora of Azores that icebergs had been stranded there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 155
Summary:
Reports that N. J. Andersson finds every European willow bar one is also American.
Has heard from David Livingstone and reports on his progress.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 May [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 234
Summary:
Sends MS on large and small genera.
Observed slave-making ants at Moor Park.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 May [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 235
Summary:
Arranges meeting with JDH at Thatched House Tavern.
Eager for JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [May 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 233
Summary:
Arrangements for JDH to visit Down for weekend.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
30 May 1858
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.155, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2nd. June 1858
Source of text:
JDH, vol. 4, 1260, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 June [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 236
Summary:
CD’s receipt of diploma from Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Academy [Dresden].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 237
Summary:
Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.
Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.
CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 238
Summary:
Etty [Henrietta Darwin] very ill with diphtheria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 239
Summary:
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 240
Summary:
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
30 June 1858
Source of text:
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 3 (1859): 45–6
Summary:
Communicate papers by CD and A. R. Wallace on "The Laws which affect the Production of Varieties, Races, and Species". Explain that CD and Wallace have, independently and unknown to each other, arrived at the same theory to account for the appearance and perpetuation of specific forms, and that neither has yet published, although CD first sketched his theory in 1839. Give their reasons for arranging the joint presentation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 241
Summary:
Thanks JDH for his report on the reading of the Wallace and Darwin papers at the Linnean Society [read 1 July 1858; Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Considers how to publish his work. Offers to forward a note from JDH to Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Mitten
Date:
11 July 1858
Source of text:
WILLIAM MITTEN LETTERS MIT f.154, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [July 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 242
Summary:
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 or 15] July 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 116–19, 168
Summary:
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 July 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 243
Summary:
Regards from Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 July [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 244
Summary:
Correcting proof for CD–Wallace paper. Has begun abstract.
Large and small genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
