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From J. D. Hooker   17 April 1875

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On pitchers of Dischidia and insects found in them.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Apr 1875
Classmark:  DAR 104: 26–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9936

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  • … letter from Richard Spruce to J. D. Hooker, 29 July 1864 . CD discussed the leaves of M. …

To Herbert Spencer   13 November 1875

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CD cannot remember whether he was on the committee of the Jamaica affair [for prosecution of Governor Eyre in 1866] but he subscribed £10.

It is curious and amusing how positivists hate all men of science, possibly because their prophet [Comte] made laughable and gigantic blunders in predicting the course of science.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Herbert Spencer
Date:  13 Nov 1875
Classmark:  University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/111)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10258

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  • 1864–7 , 1: 444–5, and Correspondence vol. 14, letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 July 1866 ). CD had subscribed to the Jamaica Committee fund to support the prosecution of Edward John Eyre , the former governor of Jamaica, for his role in the suppression of an uprising of the ex-slave population (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter from Herbert Spencer, 2 November 1866 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, …

From Federico Delpino   11 September 1875

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Thanks for Thomas Belt’s Naturalist in Nicaragua [1874], which confirms some of his observations,

and for Insectivorous plants, which he praises.

Suggests that a book integrating knowledge of plant–animal interactions be written by a Darwinist.

Defines biology as the science of external interactions.

German reception is far more positive than Italian.

Author:  Federico Delpino
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Sept 1875
Classmark:  DAR 162: 154
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10155

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  • J. D. Hooker, 6 July 1863 and n. 9; OED ). Herbert Spencer in his Principles of biology had defined life as the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations ( Spencer 1864– …
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