From J. D. Hooker 13 February 1868
Summary
Rejoices over news of Variation sales.
Pall Mall Gazette review [7 (1868): 555, 636, 652] is undoubtedly by G. H. Lewes [see 5951].
Dinner at Lyells’.
Dean Stanley favours a monument to Faraday in Westminster Abbey.
Perceval Wright is back from Seychelles and reports on plants he collected.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5874 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 January 1868
Summary
Wollaston’s situation hopeless; he must go to Boulogne or Jersey to live. A friend will keep his collection and books together.
JDH’s opinion of Wollaston’s Coleoptera Hesperidum [1867].
Cannot read Duke of Argyll.
CD’s view of Asa Gray as foreign member of Royal Society; compares him to Candolle.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 189–190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5807 |
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