From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
25 March 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.271, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 and 27 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 154–5
Summary:
Will be glad to have seeds of plants and CD’s climbing plant, which he has no doubt is Siphocampylus.
Anxious about his baby [Reginald Hooker].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Mar 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 18
Summary:
Anxious for news about baby.
Will remember to save all foreign plants for JDH when he has finished experimenting with them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 156
Summary:
Baby’s situation hopeless.
E. Perceval Wright on way to Seychelles for collecting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
2 April 1867
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.129, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 157–8
Summary:
Begins to hope baby may survive; description of symptoms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 19–20
Summary:
Rejoices over baby’s improvement.
Horace Darwin has intermittent fever.
Thanks JDH for page of the Farmer, a great service.
R. Trail’s potato grafting case would be of extreme value for demonstrating Pangenesis. [See Variation 1: 395.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 14–16
Summary:
C. Nägeli’s long letter on his four years of work on Hieracium appears to be valuable. Nägeli wants a set of British forms in exchange for German ones.
Sends note on a new genus of Umbelliferae (Drusa) in Canaries; speculates on origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 161–2
Summary:
Trail’s case is interesting, hopes it is true.
Has little faith in I. Anderson-Henry’s exactness.
Pleased with Paris exposition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Apr? 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 48
Summary:
Sends Oliver’s list of references on Adoxa.
Baby now out of trouble.
Pleased with Paris exhibition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Apr 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 21–2
Summary:
Agrees with JDH about Anderson-Henry. He has however described in detail a curious case of the ovaria of Rhododendron directly affected by foreign pollen, like the Chamaerops and date-palm case.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [Apr 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 23–4
Summary:
Has sent JDH’s Genera plantarum to Fritz Müller who finds it useful and offers to supply JDH with Brazilian plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12] May [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 25
Summary:
Sends Fritz Müller’s address; has sent him Insular floras [pamphlet].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
16 May 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.70, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125)
Summary:
Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.
Will go to Paris again at end of month.
Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.
Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1867
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 163-4
Summary:
Hooker states his favour for ARW to win the gold medal for biology.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
17 May 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.97-99, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
18 May 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.124-127, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 May 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 26–7
Summary:
Glad to hear Wallace is contender for Gold Medal. Has highest esteem for his extraordinary talents.
Thanks for H. Barkly’s letter from Mauritius.
Glad to see HB takes same view as CD about bones of deer [see 5395].
Objections to continental extension theory.
Progress [on Variation] very slow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 165–6
Summary:
Does not share CD’s objection to continental extension, i.e., that it must be extended to every island in every ocean.
Sends paper on domesticated animals by Brian Hodgson [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Hooker, J. D.
- Darwin, C. R.49
- Anderson, Dr Thomas5
- Bentham, George5
- Barkly, Henry4
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph3
- Gray, Asa3
- Barkly (nee Pratt), Lady Anne Maria2
- Bolus, Henry1
- Cunningham, Robert Oliver1
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Grant Duff, Mountstuart Elphinstone1
- Gray, John Edward1
- Munro, General William1
- Smith, Archibald1
- Wedgwood, Emma1