Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 May 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 236, 236b
Summary:
Praises ARW's paper on Man.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 236
Summary:
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 May 1864
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 234
Summary:
Forwards two character references for John Scott, for position JDH is arranging in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 235
Summary:
Request for climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 237
Summary:
Requests climbing plants.
Asks that Oliver be told that he now does not care "how many tendrils he makes axial".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 238a–c
Summary:
CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.
Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.
W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 June [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 239
Summary:
W. H. Harvey’s dandelion case worth publishing.
Suspects the uniform Primula elatior JDH referred to is a distinct species.
Scott’s paper on Passiflora shows variability of reproductive systems.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [June 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 239b, 240
Summary:
John Scott preparing to leave soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 241
Summary:
Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[24 July 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 242b
Summary:
Notes and queries on climbing plants for JDH [? given to him by CD at their meeting of 24 July 1864].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 111
Summary:
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 242a, 242c
Summary:
JDH’s visit stimulates CD’s interest in his own work. Encloses list of queries on climbing plants. [Missing]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Aug [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 243
Summary:
Clarifies queries on climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 244
Summary:
Scott would be very welcome at Down for a short visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Aug [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 247
Summary:
Asks JDH to name a Bignonia.
Coming to end of climbing plants paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 245
Summary:
First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.
Nepenthes is a true climber.
Scott has visited Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 245a
Summary:
Believes he gave JDH wrong address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Aug [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 246
Summary:
CD is not well enough to sit for Woolner.
Two Bignonia plants, which JDH does not distinguish as species, can be separated by differences in climbing and sensitivity behaviour.
Wants to write a non-quarrelsome reply to R. A. Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86] in the Reader. Lyell opposes, but E. A. Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood support the idea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Sept 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 248
Summary:
CD continues to have trouble reconciling the Veitch’s names for Bignonia plants and Kew names.
Lyell and Falconer called on CD in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
