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From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1868
Summary
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5831 |
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- … 12. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1868. The Swedish botanist Elias Magnus Fries produced a classification of fungi in Systema mycologicum (Fries 1821–32). He is briefly discussed in Correspondence vols. 5 and 6. Hooker also alludes to CD’s systematic work on barnacles ( Living Cirripedia (1851) , Living Cirripedia (1854) , Fossil Cirripedia (1851) and Fossil Cirripedia (1854) ). Fries was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1875. Daniel Oliver , George Bentham , …
