From J. D. Hooker [13 May 1863]
Summary
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 137–40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4165 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … H. W. Bates, 20 April 1863 ). For the direction of Bates’s career after 1863, see Woodcock 1969 , pp. 255–61. Bates’s evolutionary entomology was unpopular with the members of the Entomological Society of London, of whom CD wrote: ‘No body of men were at first so much opposed to my views’ (see letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 May [1867] , …
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| letter | (1) |
Author
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
Date
| 1863 | (1) |
