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To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
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Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]
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Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [Feb 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4772 |
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- … Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that ‘Ed. 3 Jossi & Horace’ came; that is, Edmund Langton and Katherine Elizabeth Sophy, Margaret Susan, and Lucy Caroline Wedgwood visited, and Horace Darwin , who had been in London since 20 February, returned home. The ‘Josselinas’ was the family nickname for Caroline and Josiah Wedgwood III’s daughters, with whom Edmund Langton was friendly (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [4 May 1863]). …
