From J. D. Hooker 25 November 1874
Summary
Encloses a letter [from Huxley about his invitation to lecture at Edinburgh]. Has done his best to dissuade Huxley from accepting the burden.
JDH’s depression in bereavement.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 228–9; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/1/14/f. 54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9732 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 November 1874
Summary
Huxley feels he can accept the Edinburgh lecture invitation.
Also tells JDH he is preparing a paper for Linnean Society on classification which will uphold evolution ["On the classification of the animal kingdom", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 199–226]. He has thrown overboard all his old ideas of definite demarcation. He will make a clean breast of it, and will bear hard on necessity of all such ideas as Haeckel’s in dealing with systematic zoology.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 230–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9736 |