Submitted by PeterPavement on Wed, 04/26/2017 - 12:51
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Joseph Dalton Hooker, from the portrait by George Richmond, 1855
CUL 456.c.91.891
Cambridge University Library
Darwin writes to Joseph Hooker with his ideas on species change; it is, he says, 'like confessing a murder'. Darwin and Hooker had only recently begun to correspond but the two men became close friends and Hooker remained Darwin's main sounding board.
5 January 1844
1844-01-05
