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From Henry Holland   2 January 1865

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Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].

Remarks on development of the tapeworm.

Author:  Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Jan 1865
Classmark:  DAR 166: 245
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4735

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  • 1847] , and Correspondence vol.  11, letter to J.  D. Hooker, 23 [June 1863] ). In the letter to Charles Lyell, …

From J. D. Hooker   [26 September 1865]

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On his reading: George Eliot,

T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.

Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.

His grief over loss of father and child.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26 Sept 1865]
Classmark:  DAR 102: 34–6a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4899

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  • 1847 to promote the scientific objects of the Royal Society, increase attendance at evening meetings, and encourage contribution of papers. Hooker was a founding member and CD was elected in 1854 ( ibid. , pp.  13–14, 39). Hooker refers to the dispute that arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell
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