From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Mar [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 481–2
Summary:
Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
Searching for the right gardener.
Miss Arabella Buckley’s letter on Wallace’s poor health and finances leads CD to seek JDH’s aid in getting a Government pension.
JDH convinces CD not to press for pension for Wallace.