From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 257a–c
Summary:
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
