From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 49–50
Summary:
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
Lists the 14 men elected to be F.R.S. Garrod defeated McLachlan.
Daughter Henrietta’s illness prevents a trip to London.
CD preparing new English and German editions of his early geology [of the voyage of the Beagle] books. Asks for Hooker’s copies as he no longer has his own.
Forwards copies of CD’s geology books.