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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[c. 10 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
The Argyll Papers, Inveraray Castle (NRAS 1209/856)
Summary:

Has seen that ARW has read a paper to the Linnean Society.

Thinks that Herbert Spencer’s Social Statics (Spencer 1851) would be too deep for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 Apr 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 226a–b
Summary:

Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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