From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 July 1863
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9)
Summary:
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project