From J. D. Hooker [17 February 1865]
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Why botanists will not subscribe to Falconer’s bust with enthusiasm.
Scott has been offered curatorship at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 10–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4773 |
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- … Charles Lyell’s The geological evidences of the antiquity of man. Archives of Natural History 13: 105–21. Heer, Oswald. 1864. Discours prononcé à l’ouverture de la 48 e session de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles. N.p. : n.p. [Reprinted from Bibliothèque Universelle et Revue Suisse (Archives des sciences physiques et naturelles) n.s. 21: 335–69. ] Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1872– …
- … 1872–97 ) Falconer had been a fellow of the Geological Society of London since 1842 ( List of the Geological Society of London ). In his letter to Hooker of 15 [February 1865] , CD said that he wanted to show Hooker a section of Heer 1864 in which Oswald Heer discussed the distribution of Arctic and alpine plants; in the same letter CD recommended Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on geographical distribution in the Malay Archipelago ( Wallace 1862 , 1863a, 1863b, 1863c, and 1864b). The reference is to the sixth edition of Charles Lyell’ …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
