From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 89–90
Summary:
Athenæum [Owen’s?] attack on JDH [BAAS address] and CD. False statement that CD’s sole groundwork is from pigeons.
Agrees with JDH on foolishness of Red Lion Club.
Huxley’s want of judgment.
JDH’s argument about astronomy and astronomers.
Pall Mall Gazette [8 (1868): 593, 595–6] and Morning Advertiser on JDH’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project