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To J. D. Hooker 8 March [1870]
Summary
Would like to see JDH become Sir J. H. Does not think JDH owes his position in science to his father.
Sends questions on Round Island – if JDH should write [to Henry Barkly?].
Has he read Federico Delpino on Marantaceae [Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 1 (1869): 293–206]?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 167–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7128 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 March 1870]
Summary
Does not give much for botanical results of Round Island, but the zoology is wonderful.
Lyell’s new book [The student’s elements of geology (1870)]. Urges Lyell to make it Elementary principles.
Grove is disgusted with CD for being disquieted by William Thomson: "Take another dose of Huxley’s penultimate address to Geol. Soc." [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 42–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6646 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
