To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 June [1857] ). CD’s annotated copy of …
- … vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 11 September [1857] ). CD’s informant was Charles …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1865 and n. 13). CD refers to Buckle 1857–61 and …
- … J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1865 and n. 27). No correspondence between CD and Seemann regarding a testimonial for a professorship has been found. Seemann proposed CD for membership in the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum (a German academy of naturalists) in 1857 ( …
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 October 1865
Summary
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B27–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4906 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
