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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 29
Summary:

CD’s great satisfaction with JDH’s approval of Origin. The book has been extremely successful. Reactions of Asa Gray, Lyell, Bentham, and J. E. Gray.

Not one friend has noticed his pet bit in Origin: embryology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 28
Summary:

Delighted JDH coming to Down. They will discuss Origin. JDH’s remarks that theory explains too much are excellent, yet CD cannot see his error.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 32
Summary:

Received JDH’s introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.

Criticism of C. V. Naudin’s descent theory.

Asks that Lyell be allowed to see letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 31
Summary:

CD will not write to L. Descaisne to defend his priority over C. V. Naudin.

Feels success of theory depends on acceptance and application by good and well-known workers, like JDH, Huxley, and Lyell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 33, 30a
Summary:

High, detailed praise for introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae [reprinted as On the flora of Australia (1859)]. CD expects it to convert botanists from doctrine of immutable creation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 30
Summary:

CD has written to Asa Gray criticising J. D. Dana’s arguments for a warm period subsequent to glacial period.

Remembers it is Alphonse de Candolle who states that many species are not true species.

Did Huxley write the excellent review in the Times?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 34
Summary:

Queries possible misprint in JDH’s introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 December 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 December 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project