To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1863]
Summary
Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3898 |
To Thomas Rivers 15 January [1863]
Summary
Particularly interested in TR’s information about peaches. Accepts offer of double-flowering peach-trees.
Will build a small hothouse for experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3918 |
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- … Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n. 24). CD refers to Journal of researches , the third edition of Origin , and Orchids . The references are to Zoology , Geology of the ‘Beagle’ , Fossil Cirripedia ( 1851 and 1854 ), and Living Cirripedia ( 1851 and 1854 ). CD refers to a letter in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 July 1860, …
From J. D. Hooker [15 January 1863]
Summary
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 101–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3919 |
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- … 1860 or 1861, when he returned to Britain ( DNB , and Kew Bulletin (1895): 236). Thomson had asked for some information and Hooker forwarded the request to CD (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1863] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] ). In his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD told Hooker of the imminent construction of a hothouse at Down House, and spoke of his plans for purchasing experimental plants. See also letter to Asa Gray, …
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| letter | (3) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
