From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
-[2]-[1863]
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.88-89, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
14 February 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.53-55, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 181
Summary:
Asa Gray on democracy of plants.
Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 103–4
Summary:
British attitude towards America: not hate as Asa Gray thinks, but contempt.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 182
Summary:
Plants, safely arrived from Kew, fill new greenhouse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 105–7
Summary:
Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24[–5] Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 183
Summary:
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 108–10
Summary:
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
