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DCP-LETT-4921

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 and 28 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 115: 277
Summary:

Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.

Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.

On Wallace; anthropology.

H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].

W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9227

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[22 October 1865]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207118 (C: RS:HS 24.125)
Summary:

Asks WW to welcome Mr. Prescott, a minister taking a position in Cambridge. Comments on a new Iliad translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP5319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 October 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 277, 277b
Summary:

Darwin agrees with Hooker's comments about ARW in Hooker's letter of 6 Oct 1865. Hooker's letter he describes ARW as: "... not a man of large sympathies, nor very charitable I think, & is certainly awfully cold & dry at times; yet he is essentially large minded, & very able".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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