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From J. D. Hooker   18 August 1866

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Returns two volumes of Felix Holt [George Eliot (1866)]

and the Coddington [lens].

John Smith will send Drosera.

Nation reports that Louis Agassiz holds that the Amazon Valley was formed since the glacial epoch.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Aug 1866
Classmark:  DAR 102: 104–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5192

To Ernst Haeckel   18 August [1866]

Summary

Comments on sheet of EH’s Generelle Morphologie [1866]. In emphasising divergence of character EH shows his clear understanding of CD’s views. It was years before CD saw necessity of divergence.

Interested in Carl Claus [Copepodenfauna von Nizza (1866)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  18 Aug [1866]
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/10)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5193