From J. D. Hooker 24 March 1874
Summary
"Half an answer" to CD’s query on visit of Sphinx to Hedychium gardnerianum.
Business affairs and family ill health keep him busy.
G. J. Allman will succeed Bentham as President of Linnean Society. Busk has refused.
Huxley is well.
JDH has indoctrinated Sir Stafford Northcote with his merits.
Lyell frail.
Old J. E. Gray goes on publishing.
"Is not [Thomas] Belt splendid!"
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 195–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9371 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1870–2 ). Moulton had challenged Spencer’s claim to have given a priori proof of the laws of motion ( [Moulton] 1873 , pp. 448–501; see also Harman ed. 1990–2002, 3: 94 and n. 9). George Howard Darwin had been second wrangler at Cambridge (that is, second in the mathematical honours examination); Moulton had been first wrangler (see Correspondence vol. 16, letter from B. J. Sulivan, 31 January 1868 and nn. 1 and 3). Francis Galton’ …
Document type
| letter | (37) |
| bibliography | (2) |
| people | (2) |
Author
| Galton, Francis | (22) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Galton, Francis | (4) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Galton, Francis | (26) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
