From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 85–8
Summary:
Pleased at success of JDH’s address. Has read several press reports.
Spectator pitches into JDH about theology ["Dr Hooker on the evidences", 22 Aug 1868, pp. 986–7].
Feels JDH has "immensely advanced the belief in evolution of species".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project