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DCP-LETT-4697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 255a–c
Summary:

CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.

Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants

and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.

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DCP-LETT-4698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 37
Summary:

Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.

Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].

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DCP-LETT-4695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
4 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh)
Summary:

Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".

The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.

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