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DCP-LETT-4306

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 163–6
Summary:

Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.

JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1135

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
19 September 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.67-68, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4309

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Sept 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 159
Summary:

Grieves over the death of his second daughter [Maria Elizabeth].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4317

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 160–2
Summary:

Sorrow at loss of his daughter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4318

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 206
Summary:

Condolences on death of JDH’s daughter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4321

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 167–70
Summary:

With scientific party to Amiens to look at gravel-pits, the geology of which JDH describes at length.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[30 Oct 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 207
Summary:

Has a letter from Haast on the spreading of European plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4325

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 3] Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 173–5
Summary:

Anxious to see Haast’s letter.

JDH’s views on Poles and Franco-Prussian conflict.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000442

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

JHC1452

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
5 November 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.252, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1136

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
6 November 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.69-70, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4335

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
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DCP-LETT-4339

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 171–2
Summary:

Asks whether he ought to write to CD while he is ill.

Wonders if he might use Haast’s notes on introduced animals for a notice he is preparing ["Note on the replacement of species in the colonies and elsewhere", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864): 123–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4341

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
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DCP-LETT-4342

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
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DCP-LETT-4345

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
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DCP-LETT-4348

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
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DCP-LETT-4353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Dec 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 213
Summary:

His bad health continues.

Thirty-two plants have come up from the earth attached to partridge’s foot.

Origin to be published in Italian.

Owen was wrong: Origin will not be forgotten in ten years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4351

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[7 Dec 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 215
Summary:

CD too ill to write.

Has evidence of long life of seed transported on a partridge’s foot.

Sends a squib by Samuel Butler on the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4359

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 214
Summary:

CD would be pleased to sit for a bust by Thomas Woolner for JDH, but he is too ill now.

Emma’s views on slavery and the Civil War.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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