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From J. D. Hooker   29 March 1864

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John Scott’s career.

Huxley’s vicious attack on anthropologists.

Critique of Joseph Prestwich’s theory of rivers.

Bitter feelings between the Hookers and the Veitch family of nurserymen.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Mar 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 193–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4439

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  • Wedgwood ( Emma Darwin’s brother) and a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm ( Freeman 1978 ). Hooker, a collector of Wedgwood ware, was especially interested in medallions (see Correspondence vol.  11, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 6 January 1863 , …

To W. E. Darwin   14 May [1864]

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Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  14 May [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4495

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  • 1863] and n.  3). CD discussed gyno-dioecism in thyme in Forms of flowers , pp.  298–303. His notes on thyme are in DAR 109: A21–2, A28, A45–6 v.  and in his experimental notebook (DAR 157a: 72). He recorded observations of thyme in the garden at Down on 5 May and 28 May 1864 (DAR 109: A46 v. ). According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Emma’s sister Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood
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