From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letters to him concerning his visit to Round Island (near Mauritius) dated 17 November 1869 and 13 January 1870 (Archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, DC 188: 148–68). See also Correspondence vol. 17, enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 29 March 1870 , and this volume, letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 February [1870] . The Darwins returned to Kent on 12 …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
