To T. H. Huxley 5 October [1871]
Summary
Hooker admires THH’s review of Mivart [see 7977]. Most impressed by THH’s handling of metaphysics.
Hooker’s problems: family health and A. S. Ayrton [Commissioner of Works].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 5 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 287) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7987 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 October [1871]
Summary
Sorry to hear of JDH’s troubles;
pleased he thinks so highly of Huxley’s article [see 7977].
Huxley makes CD feel infantile in intellect (as JDH once said of himself). CD is not so good a Christian as JDH thinks, for he did enjoy his revenge on Mivart.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Oct [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 207–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7984 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 October 1871
Summary
JDH has no intention of resigning. Thinks W. E. Gladstone would rather see Ayrton turned out than himself. Gladstone knows JDH has friends who would be troublesome. Only moral and political cowardice of Cabinet keeps Ayrton in office.
Lyell is much altered since autumn.
Has CD read Charles Martins’ paper on the glacial origin of the tourbières of the Jura [Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. 42 (1871): 286–308]?
John Scott has an admirable series on horticulture in Bengal ["Notes on horticulture in Bengal", J. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India 2 (1871) pt 1: 241–96; 3 (1872) pt 1: 1–82].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 87–92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8024 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
