From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/9/21, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 208
Summary:
Pleased with JDH’s account of his French tour.
Doctor Brinton, recommended by Busk, does not believe CD’s brain or heart affected. Feels he is going steadily downhill. If so, hopes his life will be short.
Sends Haast’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 209
Summary:
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 210
Summary:
CD has a Wedgwood vase of his father’s for JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22–3 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 211
Summary:
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333)
Summary:
On Wedgwood vases for JDH.
Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
