To J. D. Hooker 13 November [1869]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on his becoming a C.B.
Hard at work on sexual selection – weary of everlasting males and females, cocks and hens.
Has read J. H. Stirling vs Huxley on protoplasm [As regards protoplasm (1869)]
and E. B. Tylor on survival of old thoughts in modern civilisation.
Bentham’s Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [see 6793] is worth its weight in gold in making converts. C. J. F. Bunbury is impressed by it.
Likes JDH’s review of K. F. Schimper’s work [Paléontologie végétale, in Nature 1 (1869): 48].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 156–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6985 |
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- … 1847. CD refers to George Bentham’s anniversary address given on 24 May 1869 to the Linnean Society of London ( Bentham 1869b ); there is an annotated copy in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. For CD’s earlier correspondence with Hooker on Bentham 1869b , see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 June [1869] , and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 June 1869 . CD evidently saw Charles Lyell …
