From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 204–5; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters Balfour 1866–1900 vol. 78: 311)
Summary:
J. H. Balfour gives Scott excellent character reference, but says he is unfit either to superintend or be subordinate.
Herbert Spencer’s review of J. M. Schleiden is interesting [see 4457].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project