Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 May 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 233
Summary:
Praises ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Showing 1–7 of 7 items
Praises ARW.
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
Praises ARW's paper on Man.
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
No summary available.
Forwards two character references for John Scott, for position JDH is arranging in India.
Request for climbing plants.