From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
1 May 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.59-60, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 135–6
Summary:
Falconer going to France in defence of his views.
On scientific squabbling.
Herschel’s theory of the earth.
Bates’s book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 134
Summary:
JDH encourages a Mr Salwyn [Osbert Salvin] to collect in Galapagos; would like CD to add his encouragement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 137–40
Summary:
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23–7 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 141–2
Summary:
Encloses his notions [missing] on John Scott’s offer; some points in explanation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 143–6
Summary:
Flora of Cameroons shakes JDH’s faith in ability to explain past or present migrations. Sees need for a major novel explanation such as natural selection, glacial cold, or continental connections.
Lyell in a bad way about feud with Falconer.
JDH’s opinion of Wallace, Bates, J. E. Gray, Owen, Asa Gray, Lubbock, and Bentham.
Bentham’s Linnean Society address [see 4118].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1863
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 143-6
Summary:
Hooker states that he will re-read ARW's 1853 book about the Amazon as he doesn't recall it interesting him at all when it was first published.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project