From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
6 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 38
Summary:
"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 257a–c
Summary:
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 258a–c
Summary:
"Climbing plants" sent off.
Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.
Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]
and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].
Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.
Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!
"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 259
Summary:
Hugh Falconer’s death great loss to science.
His own health has been especially bad this last week.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robertson Munro
Date:
3 Feb [1865-6]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 16
Summary:
Is glad MTM is going to experiment on Passiflora.
Is grieved to hear that John Scott has been inaccurate but cannot think he recorded, in his paper, experiments that he never made [see 4485].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 260
Summary:
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Feb 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 261
Summary:
Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [Mar 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 264
Summary:
Thanks for Thomson’s and JDH’s views on Scott’s paper. Will send it back with advice and explanations.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 434
Summary:
Discusses proposed publication of Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 262
Summary:
Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5].
JDH should ask George Busk whether he knows a better doctor than William Jenner "for giving life to a worn out poor devil".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 [Apr 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 263
Summary:
Roguery at Kew.
Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?
Is rereading Origin for second French edition.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 266
Summary:
Strelitzia has arrived
but no books or bottles from G. H. K. Thwaites.
Hopes his own judgment about Origin is as good as Hooker’s about his own papers.
Strelitzia’s neat mechanism for exposing pollen.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Apr [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 265
Summary:
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 267
Summary:
Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 May [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 268a–b
Summary:
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 26
Summary:
CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 June [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 269, 269b
Summary:
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 270
Summary:
Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
11 June [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 7 (EH 88206456)
Summary:
JL’s book [Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original".
Wishes him success in politics.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 271
Summary:
Huxley’s capital, witty letter.
Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".
Health has been very bad.
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