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To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 February [1868]
Summary
Does not understand JDH on Pangenesis: on last page he appears to admit all that he regards as mere words on previous pages.
Wallace admires chapter on Pangenesis.
Pangenesis is a comfort. CD gains no idea from words like "potentiality" or "diffusing an influence"; atoms and cells give a distinct idea.
A. Newton told George that Berthold Seemann wrote the Athenæum review
and that Lewis [Lewes] did not write the Pall Mall Gazette review [see 5874].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 55–7c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5951 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 March, and with his sister-in-law, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood , at 4 Chester Place, Regent’s Park, from 11 March to 1 April ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). CD’s gardener was Henry Lettington . On the attribution of the Athenæum review of Variation to Berthold Carl Seeman, see also the letter to John Murray, 25 February [1868] and n. 5. The review was by John Robertson ([Robertson] 1868a). CD refers to Alfred Newton and George Howard Darwin . CD refers to Charles Kingsley . …
