From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 6 Oct 1858]
Source of text:
Tim Lewens (private collection)
Summary:
Asks whether there are dogs in Spain like English pointers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks whether there are dogs in Spain like English pointers.
Abstract growing to inordinate length.
Writing in support of S. Passell as assistant at Linnean Society.
Abstract will run into a small volume.
Urges JDH not to reject natural selection until he has read abstract.
[Enclosed are CD’s comments on a ?JDH manuscript that perhaps belong elsewhere.]
Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].
JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.
Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.
Memorial concerning British Museum collection. CD opposes removing the natural history collection of the British Museum to Kensington.