From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 7r
Summary:
Asks for the address of C. W. Crocker.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 7v
Summary:
Sends C. W. Crocker’s address.
Doubts CWC can help with Mormodes.
Will see CD at Lubbock’s.
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From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 254
Summary:
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Separation of sexes in Billbergia.
Offers to experiment under CD’s direction, now that he has retired from Kew.
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From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 176: 8
Summary:
In his paper for Geological Society ["Glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204] he will prove that all the lake-basins of the Alps were scooped out by glaciers.
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 106
Summary:
Discusses politics in the U. S. and relations between Britain and America.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
18 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 3 (EH 88205976)
Summary:
Would like to hear ACR’s new views on origin of mountain lakes, but cannot stand the hot, late meetings [at Geological Society].
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From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181: 144
Summary:
Variation in Mollusca. The most abundant forms vary most.
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From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 8
Summary:
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 207
Summary:
Cites case of Owen’s getting compiler’s name removed from title of a British Museum catalogue.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 144
Summary:
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 13
Summary:
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
26 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 339
Summary:
Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 15–16
Summary:
Pleased at CD’s opinion of his Arctic plants paper. CD has caught great blunder.
Lack of Arctic–Asiatic species in mountains of tropical Asia does not trouble him. Species seem to indicate some "current of migration" from Europe and W. Asia southeastward to Ceylon – an awful staggerer to bridge migrations.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Mar – 15 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 87
Summary:
[List of plants in CD’s hand, with notes by JDH identifying them.]
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From:
George Edwin Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.1: 107
Summary:
GEH, a tailor, wishes to trade some work for a presentation copy of the Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 17–19
Summary:
Had it not been for CD, JDH would never have written such papers as his one on Arctic flora. The "evulgation" of CD’s views is the purest pleasure he derives from them.
He too is staggered that Greenland ought to have been depopulated during the glacial period. Absence of Caltha is fatal to its re-population by chance migration.
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 107
Summary:
Will observe Rhexia for CD to see whether it is dimorphic.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 185
Summary:
CD wishes he could sympathise with Asa Gray’s politics.
Orchids to appear soon.
Pre-glacial Arctic distribution.
Work on floral dimorphism.
High opinion of Buckle as a writer.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2)
Summary:
Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.
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From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 319
Summary:
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
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