From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 43–7
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions relating to the flora of the Galapagos. [See 889.]
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 14–15
Summary:
JDH’s grandfather’s death.
Collecting testimonials for the Edinburgh chair.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–9 Sept 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 208–9
Summary:
The most experienced botanists argue for the "validity of species in nature". Against taxonomic "splitters".
CD’s Cape Tres Montes plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1845
Source of text:
DAR 100: 55–6
Summary:
Thanks for Journal of researches.
Puzzled over pea flower from Cape Tres Montes.
Thinks species a fair and most profitable subject for discussion, but has no formed opinion of his own.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 57–8
Summary:
Answers CD’s queries arising from Flora Antarctica.
Would like CD to come to town and go over Galapagos plants with him.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 60–2
Summary:
Goes on the assumption that each species has one origin, is immutable, and migrates.
Disagrees with Gaudichaud[-Beaupré] that volcanic island species are polymorphous.
Some mundane genera vary, others do not (Senecio vs Gnaphalium).
John Lindley’s doctrine of longevity of trees is amazing.
Edward Forbes’s health is better.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Mar] 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 63–8
Summary:
Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.
Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 188–91
Summary:
JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.
Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.
French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.
Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.
Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.
Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11–15 Apr 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 205
Summary:
Hugh Falconer gives no specific objections to Forbes’s views.
Botanical contrast between Cape of Good Hope and the rest of Africa is as strong as that between Australia and India.
Wishes CD would leave off snuff.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 79
Summary:
Has done Edmondston’s Galapagos plants.
Dispute between Edward Forbes and H. C. Watson.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 69–72
Summary:
Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.
Plant distribution and soil nature.
Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.
JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 77–8
Summary:
Thanks for reading paper. Accepts CD’s criticisms; discussion of some points.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 74
Summary:
Will come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday for a palaver on distribution, species mutability, migration, etc.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 4 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 73
Summary:
Notes on part of CD’s species sketch.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 277
Summary:
[Extract of letter to WJH from T. E. Cantor] on zoological distribution in the Malay Peninsula.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1847
Source of text:
DAR 100: 75–6
Summary:
JDH’s aunt cannot find lodgings for CD.
Similarities between floras of Tierra del Fuego, Van Diemen’s Land, and New Zealand; does not feel migration sufficient explanation.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 and 7 Apr 1850
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.
JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.
Argument with Falconer.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 164
Summary:
Wants catalogue of small islands that contain peculiar plants. Thinks complete floras of islands in various stages of depression [subsidence] would provide good data.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late Aug – early Sept 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 205.10: 98
Summary:
James Wilson reports case of salmon hybrids.
Herrings inhabit freshwater lake in Scotland during winter.
JDH will edit juror reports for the Great Exhibition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 82–5
Summary:
Flora of New Zealand.
Reconsidering variability of insular species.
Becoming convinced of the probability that the southern flora is a fragmentary one – all that remains of a great southern continent.
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