From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 6
Summary:
Cannot come until week from Saturday.
Worked to death by Genera plantarum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Cannot come until week from Saturday.
Worked to death by Genera plantarum.
His distress that his engagement has been broken off.
Sends copies of two papers ["On the parrots of the Malayan region", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1864): 279–97;
"On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 33 (1863): 217–34].
Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].
Describes his situation in Calcutta.
Says JH will receive an official letter of thanks from the administration of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle for the meteorite samples [see GD's 1865-1-23].