From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 89
Summary:
Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Invitation to Down for weekend with Huxley and W. B. Carpenter.
Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.
Henslow is dying.
H. W. Bates’s excellent article against glacial period [Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1860): 352–3] leaves CD "dumbfounded".
H. C. Watson’s hostility.