From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
-10-1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.260, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
12 October 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.75-78, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16? Oct 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 246, 246a
Summary:
Morphological differences only partly define species; physiological differences, e.g., incompatibility results in Primula, are far more interesting.
T. Thomson’s review of Agardh’s muddled book ["Agardh’s classification of plants", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1864): 536–51].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26[–8] Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 247–53
Summary:
Comments at length on Ramsay’s glacial paper ["On the erosion of valleys and lakes", Philos. Mag. 4th ser. 28 (1864): 293–311]. Prefers it to Tyndall, but unconvinced about sea action and unwilling to grant that ice power sculptures the totality of landscape.
Unwilling to support Wallace for Royal Medal.
Herbert Spencer’s noisy vacuity.
Garden varieties that are constant and infertile with parent deserve to be called species.
Scott ineligible to be Linnean Society associate because he is not in England.
George Busk’s incoherent talk on Gibraltar cave fossils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 247-53
Summary:
Regarding Darwin suggestion to nominate ARW for The Royal Society's Gold Medal.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.261, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend John Gunn
Date:
26 October 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to his uncle, Reverend John Gunn, regarding recently published pamphlets on geology. Papers mentioned are written by: Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay, John Tyndall & Charles Lyell [CL], plus a note by Hugh Falconer [HF] in ANNALS OF NATURAL HISTORY. JDH does not agree with HF's overzealous critique of a mistake by CL. Comments on the character of HF: a Scotsman JDH knows from India. JDH thinks the geology of the Suffolk valleys should be examined, suspects they are tidal not fluvial. JDH will send birds to Mr Smythe when Gunn provides the address.
Contributor:
Hooker Project