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From J. D. Hooker   26 March 1871

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Answers CD’s questions.

Reception of Descent. Evolution accepted everywhere; descent of man accepted calmly.

Morocco plans.

Fears for Huxley, who is overworked.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Mar 1871
Classmark:  DAR 103: 65–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7627

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 19 March 1871  and n.  7. Henry John Elwes had been in the Scots Guards. Hooker refers to his Himalayan journals ( Hooker 1854 ). Elwes’s travelling companion was William Thomas Blanford . They had travelled to Sikkim and into Tibet between August and October 1870 ( …
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