From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1860
Source of text:
DAR 100: 141–2
Summary:
JDH reports on the debate on the Origin at Oxford [BAAS] meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
JDH reports on the debate on the Origin at Oxford [BAAS] meeting.
CD, ill and despondent about hostile reviews, is cheered by JDH’s account of Oxford battle, particularly by willingness of JDH and Huxley to fight for CD’s theory in public.
With 942 others petitions Queen Victoria for museums, art galleries and libraries to open on Sunday afternoons for the benefit of those who work during the week.
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