From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 31
Summary:
Gives CD some references to papers.
Reports improvement in his wife’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 71–4
Summary:
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Oliver Cunningham
Date:
13 May 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.119, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project