From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Royal Gardens Kew
June 22/68
Dear Darwin
Your grass is Sporobolus elongatus; one of the commonest in the Tropics & subtropics.1
I have just returned from a delightful day at Oxford with the X Club—Lubbocks, Huxleys, Spottiswoodes Tyndall & Hirst,—2 We had a lovely row on the river to Nuneham almost, & a stroll in the Gardens of Magdalen, New College & St John’s—& dined at Baliol—(Spottiswoodes College)—3 Mrs Huxley was very full of her visit to you4
Cannot Frank come here & do a little Botany?5
I should like to go to Down next month for a day or two & certainly shall if gooseberries are ripe.—but not about the address. no. no. no. I would rather write 10 Lectures, having a subject,6 ⟨ page excised⟩ had time to write a word of an “address scientific” & am in statu quo—a cheerful prospect!. I have serious thoughts of making my address a protest against addresses,—I am considered wonderfully reticent on the subject!!!— people will— ⟨ page excised⟩
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6254
- From
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Kew
- Source of text
- DAR 102: 218–19
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6254,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6254.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16