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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26[–8] Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 247–53
Summary:

Comments at length on Ramsay’s glacial paper ["On the erosion of valleys and lakes", Philos. Mag. 4th ser. 28 (1864): 293–311]. Prefers it to Tyndall, but unconvinced about sea action and unwilling to grant that ice power sculptures the totality of landscape.

Unwilling to support Wallace for Royal Medal.

Herbert Spencer’s noisy vacuity.

Garden varieties that are constant and infertile with parent deserve to be called species.

Scott ineligible to be Linnean Society associate because he is not in England.

George Busk’s incoherent talk on Gibraltar cave fossils.

Contributor:
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From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 39
Summary:

Thanks CD for notes concerning the development of his ideas about the origin of species. Says August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also interested.

Names new supporters of CD’s theory, including Max Schultze, Rudolf Leuckart, and Alexander Braun. Zoologists have been more interested than botanists.

He is writing a general work on the relationships among animals [Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866)].

Comments on Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin [1864].

Gegenbaur is revising his Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie [2d ed. (1870)] to accord with evolution.

Thanks CD for copy of book on balanids [Living Cirripedia, vol. 2].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (88)
Summary:

Sends question [missing] for an ornithologist.

Is plodding on at Variation.

Has added to Climbing plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 327
Summary:

Proposes to work on geographical distribution before leaving the Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Hutton Balfour
Date:
21 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers)
Summary:

Thanks Balfour for Corydalis seed

and sends a photo of himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project