From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
?-?-1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.61-62, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Letter dated 1863, over two pages.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.245, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.248, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
A letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.253, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Joseph Hooker writes to Miles Berkeley to invite him to stay with Hooker at Kew and attend a Linnaean Society lecture given by Thomas Huxley on aphides. Also states that he will introduce Berkeley at the Royal Society when Hooker takes the Chair.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.254, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Joseph Hooker writes to Miles Berkeley to explain the timing of a Royal Society meeting in which Berkeley is to be awarded the Royal Medal. Mentions that William Henslow Hooker has returned to school and will travelled to Hastings.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.141, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 178
Summary:
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
4 January 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.49-50, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 88–91
Summary:
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 98
Summary:
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 179
Summary:
Acquired characteristics.
Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.
Asa Gray on slavery.
Falconer’s partial conversion.
Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 101–2
Summary:
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
17 January 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.51-52, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 99–100
Summary:
JDH delivers CD’s letter to C. V. Naudin.
Neither Naudin nor Decaisne appreciates Origin.
Discusses Naudin on physiological causes of species formation;
Decaisne on plant heredity.
JDH on Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 180
Summary:
Naudin has not answered CD’s letter.
Reactions of Candolle, Naudin, Decaisne, and Gaston de Saporta to Origin.
CD’s new hothouse.
CD’s Linum paper.
JDH’s work on Welwitschia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
