From J. D. Hooker 28 November 1872
Summary
Is reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas of life [1872]: "One of the most eloquent books I ever read".
Owen’s communications are doing incalculable mischief to science in the eyes of Government officials. "This ignorant, careless, unobservant government."
The Nature editors, J. N. Lockyer and Bennett, blame each other for printing Owen’s letter.
Huxley looks wretched.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 135–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8651 |
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- … Henslow, Charles Paget, Brian Harvey Hodgson, and Reginald Hawthorn Hooker . Hooker’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for Expression (Appendix V). Hooker’s daughters were Harriet Anne and Grace Ellen Hooker . William Rathbone Greg’s Enigmas of life ( Greg 1872 ) contained chapters titled, ‘Malthus notwithstanding’, ‘Non-survival of the fittest’, ‘Limits and directions of human development’, and ‘The significance of life’. Hooker refers to Richard Owen and probably to the Board (or Department) of Works, under whose authority the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, came. See letter from J. …
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