From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Nov [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 159–61
Summary:
Glad to know about C.B.
Thinks better of Nature than JDH does.
Likes Academy.
Is reading Anton Kerner on Tubocytisus [in Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzen von Klima und Boden (1869)].
The genealogical tree reveals the very steps of the formation of the species.
Mlle Royer has brought out a third edition of her translation of the Origin without informing CD, so corrections to fourth and fifth English editions are lost. Has arranged for a new translator of the fifth English edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project