From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Aug 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 93
Summary:
Hopes to arrive with MS of "Insular floras" on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 104–5
Summary:
Returns two volumes of Felix Holt [George Eliot (1866)]
and the Coddington [lens].
John Smith will send Drosera.
Nation reports that Louis Agassiz holds that the Amazon Valley was formed since the glacial epoch.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Aug] 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 98–9
Summary:
BAAS lecture on "Insular floras" [see 5135] went well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Sept 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 100–2
Summary:
On his "Insular floras" lecture.
Huxley’s success as President of Section.
D. W. R. Grove’s address. Grove left Darwinism to JDH after "sounding the charge".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 103
Summary:
[N. C.?] Seringe’s article [unspecified] has come safely.
Feels deeply at CD’s distress [Susan Darwin is dying].
Drosera will go in a day or two.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 106–7
Summary:
Drosera and Erica massoni have been sent.
Had heard of Agassiz’s theory but not that CD’s theory had raised it.
JDH wrote the article on A. Murray.
Frankland’s lecture too much for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 108–9
Summary:
Lyell has sent chapters [of 10th ed. of Principles] to JDH, who objects to CL’s ignoring the part vapour plays in affecting temperature of the globe.
Parliament will be asked to buy W. J. Hooker’s collection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 110–11
Summary:
Left strict orders about Euryale seeds but "labour, difficulty and expense of getting anything done scientifically by practical men is untold".
The E. J. Eyre controversy [Jamaica uprising]. Odd that Huxley joins the "persecution fund". The principles involved are fiddlesticks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22 Nov 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 112–13
Summary:
His views on the Eyre controversy.
Went to Shrewsbury (for sale of Susan’s effects), hoping to buy some Wedgwood medallions, but they had been bought.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 120
Summary:
Asks CD to send W. R. Grove titles and place of publication of the Müller [Für Darwin (1864)] and Walsh (Walsh 1864–5) papers he referred to in his address [BAAS lecture at Nottingham, see 5135].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 114–17
Summary:
Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.
"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."
Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.
Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].
Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.
Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.
Balfour Stewart on sunspots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 118–19
Summary:
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 121–6
Summary:
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 127–8
Summary:
Analysis of New Zealand flora; proportion of indigenous annuals.
Uniform climates are poor in species.
Evergreen and deciduous vegetation: relationship to flora and fauna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 129–30
Summary:
Suggests fossil leaves go to Heer.
Agrees with CD on cut pages in books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
