From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 254
Summary:
Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].
Returns HH’s essay.
Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.
Discusses his long period of ill health.
Seeks HH’s support for Hooker in JDH’s difficulties with A. S. Ayrton and the Ministry of Works [see Nature 6 (1872): 211–16].