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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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  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   28 August [1864] …
  • … is to Thomas Woolner . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 26 August 1864  and n.  8. …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 11 August [1864] and n.   …
  • … 4, and letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 26 August 1864 . CD refers to Rudolf Albert von …