From J. D. Hooker 8 November 1872
Summary
Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.
Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].
A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 130–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8609 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 November 1872
Summary
Writes, as a P.S. to his previous letter, stating his friends have advised him not to answer Owen’s attack.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 133–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8610 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 November 1872
Summary
Is reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas of life [1872]: "One of the most eloquent books I ever read".
Owen’s communications are doing incalculable mischief to science in the eyes of Government officials. "This ignorant, careless, unobservant government."
The Nature editors, J. N. Lockyer and Bennett, blame each other for printing Owen’s letter.
Huxley looks wretched.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 135–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8651 |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. |