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To J. D. Hooker   28 August [1864]

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CD is not well enough to sit for Woolner.

Two Bignonia plants, which JDH does not distinguish as species, can be separated by differences in climbing and sensitivity behaviour.

Wants to write a non-quarrelsome reply to R. A. Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86] in the Reader. Lyell opposes, but E. A. Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood support the idea.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  28 Aug [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 246
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4601

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  • Charles Lyell . Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) notes ‘went to L. ’ on 28 August 1864. Erasmus Alvey Darwin and Hensleigh Wedgwood . …
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