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To [J. D. Hooker] [before 6 October 1858]
Summary
Asks whether there are dogs in Spain like English pointers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [before 6 Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Tim Lewens (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2333F |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1858]
Summary
Abstract growing to inordinate length.
Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2335 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 [October 1858]
Summary
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 249 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2339 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 [October 1858]
Summary
Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].
JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.
Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 250 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2345 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [October 1858]
Summary
Memorial concerning British Museum collection. CD opposes removing the natural history collection of the British Museum to Kensington.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 [Oct 1858] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 246) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2349 |
