To J. D. Hooker 17 September 1870
Summary
Discusses germination of charlock after a long interval.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/2/1 f. 307) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7321F |
To J. D. Hooker 27 September [1870]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s report of Liverpool meeting.
Huxley’s address.
Sir Roderick [Murchison]’s "apotheosis".
Tyndall’s lecture is "grand" except for egotistical beginning. Some Frenchmen have pitched into CD for using the "as if" reasoning, which Tyndall shows is justified.
Has just read George Rolleston’s address in Nature.
Anton Dohrn says German public have high opinion of Lyell.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 Sept [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 181–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7328 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 September 1870
Summary
Reports on the 1870 BAAS meeting at Liverpool. Huxley’s address was over the heads of the laymen.
Tyndall’s was eloquent to listen to, disappointing to read.
George Rolleston’s "Rococo" address [Nature 2 (1870): 423–7, 442–6].
Murchison.
Lyell.
Has done an immense lot of work.
Regrets CD has not kept the simple title "Origin of man" [for Descent].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 57–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7323 |
| letter | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
