From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 210–13
Summary:
Trip with Huxley was perfect.
At Torquay later he had a lecture on "Kent’s hole" from Joseph Pengelly.
George Bentham acknowledges himself unreservedly a convert to Darwinism. Many will still cling to a "rag of protection, but will eventually haul it down".
A. Murray’s later parts better than first [? Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Wallace’s paper shows great ability.
Disgusted with [Duke of Argyll’s] Reign of law.
His depression and exhaustion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
