From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 68
Summary:
JL’s failure to be elected to Parliament.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 27
Summary:
WSD has been elected Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society after a sharp struggle. CD’s support was greatly in his favour.
Has finished Für Darwin. It has been a difficult job.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Owen Glenie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 54
Summary:
He and Mrs G pleased to receive CD’s letter indicating that he found their observations worthy of attention.
Hopes soon to be able to answer CD’s queries on first plumage of chickens of black-boned variety of fowl.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Nov 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 243–6
Summary:
Is doing a British Flora [The student’s flora of the British Islands (1870)], for students, more scientific and more complete than former editions.
His opinion of Bentham’s [British] Flora [1858].
On Croll’s extension of glaciers – a huge relief to get rid of simultaneous cooling of the whole globe.
Watson’s garbling of passage in JDH’s Flora Indica is unprincipled.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 50
Summary:
Thanks CD for advice to watch the action and not only the structure [of plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
