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DCP-LETT-5089

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 71–4
Summary:

Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray

with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.

Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.

Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.

Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.

John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].

R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5334

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1866
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 71-4
Summary:

ARW's marriage to Annie Mitten.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC1605

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
13 May 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.119, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5093

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 75–6
Summary:

W. H. Harvey is dead. His loss to science.

Will get a copy of Crawfurd’s paper. It was such trash he tore his up.

His letter to Asa Gray was about his [JDH’s] proof that America will have an aristocracy from interbreeding of wealth, intellect, and beauty; and the lower classes, not having time for politics, will leave them to the aforementioned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5104

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 77
Summary:

JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5110

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 78
Summary:

He is not grieved at CD’s omissions of his [JDH’s] work [from Origin, 4th ed.]. It proves nothing – claims only to be illustration of using CD’s methods.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1103

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
Date:
2 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1606

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
16 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.120, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1607

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
19 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.121, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1608

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
21 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.122, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1609

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
27 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.123, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1188

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
29 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.156-157, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5139

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 79–80
Summary:

Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1360

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 July 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.152, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1361

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
19 July 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.153, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5165

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (letters): 239
Summary:

Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].

Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.

Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.

Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1189

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
26 July 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.158-159, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5168

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 81–6
Summary:

Questions for his lecture on "Insular floras".

Comments on CD’s criticism of Atlantis. Has no fixed opinion on continental extensions. Great objections to hypotheses of CD and Forbes: botanical to CD’s; geological to Forbes’s. Will point out that natural selection is necessary to both hypotheses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5178

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 87–8
Summary:

Alexander Beatson mentions a bird in considerable numbers on St Helena which appears to contradict CD’s statement in Journal of researches that only introduced land birds exist there.

The Azores flora and fauna tell heavily against Atlantis joining them with America and against transoceanic migration from America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5182

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Aug 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 89–90
Summary:

Will do justice to CD’s objections to continental extension theory.

CD misunderstood his question about Isthmus.

Responds to CD’s other points about Madeira and the Azores.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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