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From J. D. Hooker   [7 March 1870]

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Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.

Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.

Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [7 Mar 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 103: 42–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6646

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  • 12 March ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Hooker and CD did not meet during this visit ( see letter to Asa Gray, 15 March 1870 ). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 21  …

From Bartholomew James Sulivan   27 June 1870

Summary

Tells of his health and family matters.

Congratulates CD on being honoured by Oxford.

Discusses the state of Tierra del Fuego and the success of missionaries there.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 June 1870
Classmark:  DAR 177: 293
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7246

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  • 21 December 1869, p.  12, he had received second prize for mathematics. Henry Norton Sulivan . Sulivan refers to Catherine Sabine Sulivan and William Wallace Trench . The enclosure has not been found. Sulivan refers to William Stephen Mitchell (see Correspondence vol.  14, letter
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