From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1871
Summary
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8117 |
From Francis Galton 22 December 1871
Summary
Encloses "account of Dr H. M. Butler’s hereditary odd habit".
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A40; DAR 195.4: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8118 |
From Francis Galton [after 22 December 1871]
Summary
Gives his account of H. M. Butler’s apparently inherited habit.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 22 Dec 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A42–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8126 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Galton, Francis | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Galton, Francis | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
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