From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 308–9
Summary:
His indignation at the malignant, odious, hypocrite Owen’s attack on JDH. History of Secretaryship [of Royal Society in Nature 9 (1873): 129–30] was best answer to Owen.
Is hard at work on new edition of Descent – a truly awful job.
No use going on with experiments on effects of water on bloom-divested leaves. May have erred. Or it may be that water is only injurious when there is a good supply of actinic rays. Will wait until spring.
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Darwin Correspondence Project