From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
12 January 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.144, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 [Jan] 1869
Source of text:
DAR 48: A78, DAR 103: 3
Summary:
Oliver overlooked CD’s request about rutaceous flowers. Of precisely which points about the ovules does CD want illustrations?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 1–2
Summary:
Criticisms of and suggestions for CD’s draft MS on Nägeli [for Origin, 5th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
17 January 1869
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 95-96
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 4–7
Summary:
Replies to CD’s questions. Advice on use of term "morphology". Is much struck by CD’s idea that uniformity of an organ throughout a group implies functional inutility; the paradox of this position for classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Jan 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 8–9
Summary:
Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?
Social news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 10–11
Summary:
Orchids translation should goad [French] Academy into electing CD.
JDH will be sent to St Petersburg congress by Government.
Huxley on protoplasm; his address to Geological Society.
Fertilised an Aucuba with pollen of various species. Reports on results.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
20 March 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.277, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 12–13; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 188: 141–2)
Summary:
Pleased to come on 17th.
Is arranging the Aucuba experiment.
Sends some letters for CD’s perusal.
Asks what CD thinks of Huxley’s address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxviii–liii].
Would be glad to have Drosophyllum plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
28 May 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.160-161, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 14–17
Summary:
Account of his Russian trip.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 18–21
Summary:
Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.
Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.
F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1869
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 103: 18-21
Summary:
Reflects how Bentham might have been more cautious had he read ARW's volumes.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 July 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.162, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
9 July 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.10-11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 22–4
Summary:
On reading F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].
Pangenesis.
Agrees with CD on fascination [of snakes].
Huxley is at Comte again.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 July 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.31-32, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH & his wife have returned from Scythia via Stockholm, Wiborg [Vyborg], Helsingfors [Helsinki], the Swedish lakes, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Neuenhausen, Utrecht, Leyden, Amsterdam, Hage [Hague] & Rotterdam. He is tired of rail travel & hotels, he would prefer a tent in the jungle or a cabin at sea. JDH regrets that Gray has given up on the FL[ORA]. AM[ERICANA]. BOR[EALIS]. He describes Regel's poor organisation [of the International Botanical Congress] at St Petersburg, including the absence of any Russian botanists except [Alexander Andrejewitsch von] Bunge. A good 'show' was put on & many medals awarded, there was some misreporting of the medals given in the GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. JDH does not like St Petersburg, he prefers Moscow. They stayed with the Andersons in Stockholm, met old Fries, Theodor Fries & [Johnan Erhard] Areschoug in Upsala [Uppsala] & spent a day each with Reichenbach & Booth in Hamburgh [Hamburg]. He admires the antiquities museums of Stockholm & Denmark. They saw Wendland's Palms at Utrecht & stayed with Miguel. JDH returned to a lot of work at RBG Kew, including the matter of opening the gardens in the morning, he thinks it is the right thing to do but will mean reorganisation & a lot of additional work for him as so much of the running of Kew depends on him personally. He is made of strong stuff so can handle the work but he expects [John] Smith, Curator of the Gardens, will be overwhelmed. JDH mentions the state of his personal finances & describes himself as 'living hand to mouth'. Concludes with news that Darwin is in North Wales & very unwell, Bentham & Baker are on holiday, the latter in Geneva, & [Thomas] Thomson is well.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
26 July 1869
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.278, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 25–6
Summary:
Huxley has shown him the jaws of an Anoplotherium brought from the Gallegos by R. O. Cunningham.
Saw Hallett’s wheat crops at Brighton; results of his selection very striking.
Huxley is assembling his Darwiniana papers for republication.
Has written a crushing reply to Richard Congreve ["The scientific aspects of positivism", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 5 (1869): 653–70] and JDH feels "infantine" beside him.
Comments on Sabine’s being offered and accepting K.C.B.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 27–9, DAR 100: 156
Summary:
Did not intend to imply that Hallett said variation stopped, but that it arrives at a point where further accumulation in direction sought is so slow as to result practically in fixity of type – but not absolute fixity.
Duke of Argyll has requested JDH to superintend publication of a flora of India. JDH thinks he [Argyll] is paying him off for his kick at natural theology.
Willy [Hooker] returning from New Zealand.
A unique character in Drosophyllum.
Sees no reason for CD to contribute to Ross and Faraday memorials.
Contributor:
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