From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1853?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.204, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1853?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.205, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
A letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Joseph Berkeley arranging a visit by Hooker to Berkeley at his home at King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire. The letter is undated with exception of a note of '1853?' in pencil.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
-3-1853
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.86, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 May 1853
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP15/1/1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 150
Summary:
Further response to MS of introductory essay to Flora Novae-Zelandiae.
Disbelieving in permanence of species has made little difference to CD in his barnacle work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Oct 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 149
Summary:
Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 [Oct 1853]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984)
Summary:
Returning JDH’s MS and books.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 October 1853
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.88, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 186–7
Summary:
Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.
Honoured for Coral reefs
and Cirripedia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Nov [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 125
Summary:
Edward Sabine’s official letter announcing CD’s receipt of Royal Society Medal left him cold. JDH’s informal one moved him.
Applauds JDH for supporting John Lindley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-1?-1854?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.202, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
-1?-1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.208, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.209, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
A one page letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
[]-[]-[1854]
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.210-211, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Joseph Hooker writes to Miles Berkeley congratulating Berkeley on his son, Emeric Berkeley, passing his exams. Also mentions attending a Microscopical Society event and how Hugh Falconer is hoping to return from India next year and will recommend Thomas Thomson to replace him at the Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1854?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.132, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 January 1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.206, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 January 1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.2-3, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH thanks Asa Gray for his opinion on an unspecified essay by JDH, letter includes discussion of species & specific centres suggesting the subject of the essay is geographical plant distribution, the definition of a species & whether they are created entities or varieties evolve with environmental influences. JDH refers Gray to his comments in the FLORA ANTARCTICA. He argues against Gray & Agassiz's belief in multiple centres. Discusses the relative importance of genetic resemblance as opposed to habitat, referring to the Dorking Fowl, Manx Cats & Falkland Island rabbits. He favours theories based on observable evidence of geography, physiology etc. Dismisses Agassiz's work, incl on glaciers such as Aletsch, as prejudice not based in fact but on a desire for notoriety. JDH & Lyell like Agassiz personally. JDH looks to Americans for future discoveries in science as he considers them more practical. Bentham has decided to give his herbarium to RBG Kew. Thomas Thomson [TT] wants to be botanist on an expedition to North West Australia, if the East India Company will give him leave. Hurt approves of TT, who was imprisoned with his brother during the Afghanistan campaign. William Jackson Hooker has applied to The Duke of Newcastle on TT's behalf. Writes of progress with FLORA INDICA & distribution of plant sets to Gray, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg, Brown at the British Museum, Lowell & Torrey. Asks Gray about North American Larch, Yew, Junipers & Coniferae incl. Scotch Pine. Uses Yews from Pontrilas as an example of the difficulty of using habitat vs character in determining species. The Deodar Avenue at Kew is another example of how plants may not always have the ideal characteristics of their species. Agrees that species cannot be pronounced the same because they are united by certain forms, gives Mt Lebanon & Himalayan Cedars as example of extreme forms. Argues the difficulty is with local botanists wanting to give local varieties a distinct classification.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
-2?-1854
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.98-99, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 February 1854
Source of text:
HL UG MS 2153/5/58
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 February 1854
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Addressee
Correspondent
- Babington, Professor Charles Cardale11
- Bentham, George53
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph31
- Darwin, C. R.257
- Faraday, Michael3
- Gray, Asa6
- Harvey, William Henry1
- Henslow, J. S.3
- Herschel, John1
- Hooker (nee Turner), Lady Maria1
- Hooker, J. D.
- Hooker, W. J.22
- Humboldt, Alexander von1
- Huxley, Thomas Henry1
- Linnean Society1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Mitten, William11
- Munro, General William2
- Tyndall, John8
- Vriese, W. H. de1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Wallich, Nathaniel1
- unknown addressee4
- FEWER