From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Dec 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 213
Summary:
Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Will be in London until 21st. Would rejoice if JDH could come to lunch during their stay.
Cannot come to lunch to meet Sir Henry Holland. Holland may have seen Robert Lowe [Lord Sherbrooke] already. Will CD let him know his views?
H. Holland keeps strongly to the opinion that Kew be under the Treasury, and will recommend this to Lowe.
Philosophical Club dinner.
Lyell contradicts W. B. Carpenter on current in Straits of Gibraltar.
James Orton’s report on fossil shells found by L. Agassiz 2000 miles up the Amazon. Their identification disposes of the glacial hypothesis.
No news yet from Gladstone on Ayrton affair.