From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Sept 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 240–2
Summary:
Reports on personalities at the Bath meeting of BAAS [Sept 1864].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 September 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 101: 240-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 110
Summary:
Sends Nepenthes laevis.
Wallace for the Royal Medal is a good thought.
W. H. Harvey is at Kew and JDH has asked him about desert climbers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Nov 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 254–7
Summary:
JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.
Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.
Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].
JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 258–9
Summary:
JDH is making inquiries for CD on temperate climbing plants.
Discusses politics of Royal Society Council in awarding CD the Copley Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4)
Summary:
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 262–3
Summary:
Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
30 December 1864
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.79-80, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project