To J. D. Hooker 19 November [1869]
Summary
Glad to know about C.B.
Thinks better of Nature than JDH does.
Likes Academy.
Is reading Anton Kerner on Tubocytisus [in Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzen von Klima und Boden (1869)].
The genealogical tree reveals the very steps of the formation of the species.
Mlle Royer has brought out a third edition of her translation of the Origin without informing CD, so corrections to fourth and fifth English editions are lost. Has arranged for a new translator of the fifth English edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 159–61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6997 |
To James Croll 31 January [1869]
Summary
Returns book with thanks. "Joyfully accepts" idea of the warming of Southern Hemisphere during glacial period in the Northern. Lyell is unwilling.
Mentions H. N. Moseley’s study of descent of glaciers [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 17 (1869): 202–8].
CD greatly troubled by problem of age of the earth and calculations of Sir William Thomson. Asks about changes in the form of the globe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Croll |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.361) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6585 |
From J. D. Hooker [25 January 1869]
Summary
Does not fact that characters important in systematics are often of no use, corroborate CD’s view that such characters, if not detrimental, may persist ad infinitum?
Social news.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 8–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6608 |
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- … Hooker, 13 January 1869 and 16 January [1869] , and letters from J. D. Hooker, 14 [January] 1869 and 15 January 1869 . Hooker refers to Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell , Susan Ridley Norton, Hyacinth Symonds , and William Samuel Symonds , rector of Pendock, Worcestershire. Roderick Impey Murchison was made KCB ( Order of the Bath) in 1863 …
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