From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 Jan 1869
Source of text:
DAR 94: 110–11
Summary:
Sends MS of 13 pages in answer to Nägeli, for new edition of Origin [5th ed., p. 151].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Sends MS of 13 pages in answer to Nägeli, for new edition of Origin [5th ed., p. 151].
Praises Variation and Pangenesis.
Reports observations on parrots and cockatoos.
Thanks GM for offer of observations. Would be interested to know when the horns of merino rams first appear,
and has long wished for living specimens of Drosophyllum.
Asks JH to confirm that JH appointed Charles Sterry as HF's assistant assayer on 25 Apr. 1851 after Henry Bingley declined position. Original letter of appointment is lost, and HF is accused of falsifying records.
Has received GA's paper on spectral lines and is amazed that it is possible to see a spectrum in the light from faint nebulae.