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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 94: 216–17
Summary:

Heartily glad about the news of the Ayrton affair development.

Huxley looks very unwell from too much miscellaneous work; CD wishes he could be made a Director General for transference of British Museum and for other scientific work, as JDH suggests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 218–19
Summary:

Heartily glad about Willy.

Has never had Zizania.

Still has Leersia. He cannot make the beast produce.

What slow coaches the Ministers are about the Ayrton affair.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 224
Summary:

Is sorry JDH cannot come to Down.

Hopes the House of Lords "pitch into the accursed fellow" [Ayrton].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 220–1
Summary:

Has signed the memorial by men of science with real pleasure. Fears it may be too severe. He told Lady Derby about JDH’s troubles. She said she would tell Lord Derby what he had said.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 222–3
Summary:

Overjoyed at the way the newspapers have taken up JDH’s case. The memorial has done great good this way, whatever the wretched Government does. It is enough to make one a Tory. JDH has done a service to all men of science by showing governments that they cannot be trampled on.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 225–6
Summary:

CD hopes the Times abstract of minutes of Lords of the Treasury will make JDH’s position more comfortable.

The "wretched Lords" make CD indignant, but "nothing equals Owen’s conduct. – I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last day of my life."

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 Aug [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 227–8
Summary:

Is now at work on Drosera and asks to borrow D. capensis and other species.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 229–30
Summary:

Is sending Drosera back

and "the curious Kerguelen book".

"Drosera has almost been the death of me."

Hopes the accursed man [Ayrton] does not give JDH any more trouble.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 231–2
Summary:

Condolences on death of JDH’s mother.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 233–4
Summary:

Asks for London address of George King [Superintendent of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta], so he can ask about worm-castings sent by King from S. India. Has just received a splendid letter from John Scott on worms.

Asks where he can buy Dionaea.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 235–6
Summary:

Asks for address of a Mrs Barber somewhere in South Africa.

JDH’s letter in Nature [6 (1872): 516–17] is excellent, and wonderfully quiet.

Severely criticises Owen’s conduct.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 237–8
Summary:

Dionaea plants have arrived. Just ready to observe some points in their structure.

Has Murray sent Expression book?

JDH’s particulars about Owen, Ayrton and Co. ("a nice firm") amused CD much.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 239–42
Summary:

Pros and cons of answering Owen’s letter.

On Artizans’ Dwellings, he approves the object but it is lost money as an investment.

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