From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.61-62, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Letter dated 1863, over two pages.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.245, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.248, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
A letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.253, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Joseph Hooker writes to Miles Berkeley to invite him to stay with Hooker at Kew and attend a Linnaean Society lecture given by Thomas Huxley on aphides. Also states that he will introduce Berkeley at the Royal Society when Hooker takes the Chair.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.254, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Joseph Hooker writes to Miles Berkeley to explain the timing of a Royal Society meeting in which Berkeley is to be awarded the Royal Medal. Mentions that William Henslow Hooker has returned to school and will travelled to Hastings.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.141, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
4 January 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.49-50, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 88–91
Summary:
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 98
Summary:
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 101–2
Summary:
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
17 January 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.51-52, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 99–100
Summary:
JDH delivers CD’s letter to C. V. Naudin.
Neither Naudin nor Decaisne appreciates Origin.
Discusses Naudin on physiological causes of species formation;
Decaisne on plant heredity.
JDH on Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
-[2]-[1863]
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.88-89, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
14 February 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.53-55, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 103–4
Summary:
British attitude towards America: not hate as Asa Gray thinks, but contempt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 105–7
Summary:
Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 108–10
Summary:
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 111–13
Summary:
John Lubbock’s lecture on man a success [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1863): 29–40].
JDH on the effect of the Civil War on Asa Gray.
JDH’s opinion of Lyell on glaciers is improving.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 114–16
Summary:
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 March 1863
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 114-16
Summary:
Refers to paper by F. Smith on the distribution of ARW's Hymenoptera.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project