From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [Aug 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 71
Summary:
Observations on Drosera: plants can distinguish minute quantities of nitrogenous substances.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 73
Summary:
CD has a low opinion of British entomologists.
Lyell’s ingenious difficulties with natural selection show he is in earnest.
Asks JDH to observe beetles and variation of stripes in mules on his Syrian tour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 74
Summary:
Thanks JDH for agreeing to observe coats of asses and mules in Middle East.
Asks for observations on vigour of plants as JDH ascends mountains.
Ad hominem article in Athenæum [review of John Tyndall, Glaciers of the Alps, 1 Sept 1860, pp. 280–2].
Reports extensive experiments on Drosera.
Observations on orchid anatomy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 75
Summary:
Welcomes JDH home from Middle Eastern expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 218–19
Summary:
Has found some funny evidences of transmutation in Cliffortia. Sketches gradual passage "from very unlike to same" – e.g., from three-leafed form to two-leafed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Nov – 4 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 158–60
Summary:
Encourages CD’s work in vegetable physiology.
Ascending the Lebanon JDH noted limits of plant distribution as CD requested: lower limits of a genus sharper than upper. Sharpness of boundaries related to a plant’s moisture requirement.
Impressed by "sporadic" distribution at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 76
Summary:
Preparing new edition of Origin and asks for JDH’s corrections and criticisms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 78
Summary:
Third edition of Origin will answer reviewers.
Drosera experiments detailed.
Hopes for W. H. Harvey’s conversion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6–11 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 218
Summary:
JDH’s page-by-page criticisms on Origin, first edition, as requested by CD for preparation of the third edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 79
Summary:
Henry Fawcett’s article on Origin [Macmillan’s Mag. 3 (1860): 81–92] quotes JDH’s Oxford speech.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 80, 78E
Summary:
On JDH’s suggestions for new edition of Origin.
Gray’s Atlantic Monthly articles to be published [in England] as a pamphlet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 81
Summary:
Analysing results of last spring’s Primula experiments, CD infers pollen of short-styled plants "suits" long-styled plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 82
Summary:
Sends JDH note on adaptation of an Australian Compositae for dispersal in dry climate. Is it too trivial to publish? [Collected papers 2: 36–8].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1860
Source of text:
DAR 100: 143–4, 146–8
Summary:
CD’s article worth publishing in Gardeners’ Chronicle. JDH interprets CD’s observation in terms of selection. Has observed similar phenomenon in Cruciferae, where it can be taxonomically important.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Dec [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 83
Summary:
Feels his poor stomach "saved" him from overworking his head.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-?-1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.135, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.237, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.239, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1861?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.241, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Summary:
Comments on the travels of JDH.
Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.
Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Addressee
Correspondent
- Hooker, J. D.
- Darwin, C. R.600
- Anderson, Dr Thomas52
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph39
- Bentham, George19
- Gray, Asa13
- Barkly, Henry12
- Cunningham, Robert Oliver11
- Darwin, Emma11
- Wedgwood, Emma11
- Bolus, Henry7
- Barkly (nee Pratt), Lady Anne Maria6
- Babington, Professor Charles Cardale5
- Munro, General William5
- Gunn, Reverend John3
- Hodgson, Brian Houghton3
- Baker, John Gilbert2
- Watson, H. C.2
- Adams Sr., Charles Francis1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Grant Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone1
- Gray, John Edward1
- Harvey, W. H.1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Herschel, John1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Nilsson, Sven1
- Smith, Archibald1
- Smith, Mrs Susan Emma1
- Spruce, Richard1