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To J. D. Hooker 15 February [1863]
Summary
Asa Gray on democracy of plants.
Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3986 |
From J. D. Hooker [16 February 1863]
Summary
British attitude towards America: not hate as Asa Gray thinks, but contempt.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 103–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3989 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 February 1863]
Summary
Plants, safely arrived from Kew, fill new greenhouse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [21 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4004 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 February 1863]
Summary
Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 105–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4007 |
To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1863]
Summary
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 108–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4011 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. |
