From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.4-5, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Two page letter from Hooker to Dr Thomas Anderson.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.8-9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
A two page typescript letter to Dr Thomas Anderson
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.10, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
A short letter to Thomas Anderson from Joseph Hooker.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1860
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Two paragraph letter to Thomas Anderson.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.233, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.234, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
An undated letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.235, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1860?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.236, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Short letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley identifying a Lonicera as L.involuncrata Banks of California. Mentions that William Hookers is in Torquay and Maria Hooker is in Norfolk.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
James Thomas Walker
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
c.1860s
Source of text:
MM/14/105, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Ernst Heinrich Weber
To:
unknown
Date:
c.1860s
Source of text:
MM/14/236, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Whewell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 19
Summary:
Thanks CD for the Origin. WW is not yet a convert but there is so much "of thought and of fact" in what CD has written that "it is not to be contradicted without careful selection of the ground and manner of the dissent".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 1
Summary:
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3? Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 135–8
Summary:
Notes by HCW on the Origin dealing especially with divergence and convergence. Believes there is some natural tendency to converge into groups in opposition to divergence generated by natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.466
Summary:
Thanks for the additional subscription to the Rifle Corps. Regrets that he could not attend due to indisposition.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1860
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 95–103)
Summary:
Has read Origin and considers it one of the most valuable contributions to present-day natural history. Believes, however, that there are difficulties in the extensive generalisation that all taxonomic groups are related by descent. Does not understand how Genesis is to be read unless at least the human species was created independently of other animals. Cannot bring himself to the idea that man’s reasoning and moral sense could have been obtained from "irrational progenitors": the "Divine Image" is the unsurmountable distinction between man and brutes. [See 2644.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Barlow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.19
Summary:
Has just received his note and written to the Royal Institution so that he may get an answer without delay. Sends his best wishes to the family.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.190)
Summary:
Praises CL’s work on human species.
A critical review of Origin in Saturday Review [24 Dec 1859].
A letter from J. G. Jeffreys criticises CD’s geological statements.
A note from William Whewell concerning Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.367
Summary:
Asks about other portraits of William Herschel like one RW owns, which National Portrait Gallery wants to buy. Will send miniature of WH's portrait to JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joshua Toulmin Smith
Date:
4 Jan 1860
Source of text:
Indiana University, The Lilly Library (Sieveking MSS)
Summary:
Remembers reading Smith’s memoir in Geological Transactions on the anomalous nature of Ventriuculidae. Asks for a copy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[5–11 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 136a (verso); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 77–87)
Summary:
Discusses the possibility of "convergence" occurring; believes it could be only very limited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project