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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 August 1868
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 229-32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 233–4
Summary:
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 235
Summary:
The wheat and oat specimen has been examined "in congress" by Oliver, Bentham, Asa Gray, and JDH. No organic connection of any kind.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 238–9
Summary:
Encloses copy of H. Barkly’s answer to JDH’s inquiry on the Seychelles Island crocodile.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 240–1
Summary:
On H. C. Watson’s false and contemptuous criticism of [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson] Flora Indica [1855].
W. B. Carpenter’s deep-sea dredgings.
James Croll’s last paper ["On geological time", Philos. Mag. 35 (1868): 363; 36 (1868): 141, 362].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 242
Summary:
Anxious to hear how the Lubbocks take the disastrous termination to their hopes. [Sir John Lubbock was defeated in the Parliamentary election on 25 Nov 1868.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Nov 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 243–6
Summary:
Is doing a British Flora [The student’s flora of the British Islands (1870)], for students, more scientific and more complete than former editions.
His opinion of Bentham’s [British] Flora [1858].
On Croll’s extension of glaciers – a huge relief to get rid of simultaneous cooling of the whole globe.
Watson’s garbling of passage in JDH’s Flora Indica is unprincipled.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 247; Linnean Society of London MS. SP 56
Summary:
T. H. Farrer’s paper is capital.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
