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DCP-LETT-3856

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 80–2
Summary:

"Throttled off" Welwitschia paper at Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 1–48].

Has read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).

Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.

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DCP-LETT-3879F

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 85
Summary:

Comments on items in the Saturday Review and the Edinburgh Review.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3890

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 Dec 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 96–7
Summary:

JDH’s impression on meeting [J. A.] Froud[e].

CD’s projected three volume work.

Complains at poor state of some [unspecified] plant collection.

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DCP-LETT-3891

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 or 28] Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 93–5
Summary:

Hostile to Spencer’s application of natural selection to society.

JDH on J. E. Gray’s views on collecting.

JDH collecting Wedgwood ware.

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