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From J. D. Hooker [21 December 1862]
Summary
"Throttled off" Welwitschia paper at Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 1–48].
Has read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).
Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [21 Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 80–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3856 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 29 December 1862]
Summary
Comments on items in the Saturday Review and the Edinburgh Review.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 29 Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3879F |
From J. D. Hooker [31 December 1862]
Summary
JDH’s impression on meeting [J. A.] Froud[e].
CD’s projected three volume work.
Complains at poor state of some [unspecified] plant collection.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 96–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3890 |
From J. D. Hooker [27 or 28 December 1862]
Summary
Hostile to Spencer’s application of natural selection to society.
JDH on J. E. Gray’s views on collecting.
JDH collecting Wedgwood ware.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 or 28] Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 93–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3891 |
