From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1880
Source of text:
DAR 104: 148–9
Summary:
Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Wants to propose Frank for F.R.S. now, with election in 1882.
Preoccupied by reorganisation of Botanic Garden.
Regards to Francis Darwin.
Comments on Pangenesis. Quotes long passage from article by Fritz Müller concerning regeneration of lost members among crustaceans.
Kosmos has been sold to Eduard Koch in Stuttgart; will be converted into a weekly. Science will be de-emphasised. Krause seeking new publisher to continue on old basis.
Gustav Jäger injured in train accident.