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To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1860]
Summary
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2635 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 5 January 1860
Summary
Opinions on the Origin: AG thinks it masterly; Agassiz considers it very poor.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98 (ser. 2): 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2638 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [January 1860]
Summary
CD has learned from Lyell that JDH reviewed Origin in Gardeners’ Chronicle writing in Lindley’s style.
Lyell is working on man.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2651 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 [January 1860]
Summary
CD preparing historical sketch, which will go into second American edition of Origin.
Asks JDH to copy out Naudin’s line on finality.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 [Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2671 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 January 1860]
Summary
Very pleased with Asa Gray’s letter to JDH [see 2638], which is "rich on Agassiz".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22 Jan 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2672 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Correspondent
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
