From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 76
Summary:
Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.
Thanks for the corallines.
Mention of JDH’s capital speech.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 77
Summary:
Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[23 Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 138
Summary:
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Thinks it unsound to designate a geological epoch after man. Doubts people’s confidence in date of man’s introduction.
Criticises A. D. d’Orbigny’s theory of elevation of the Cordillera.
Lists sections of South America of special interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project