From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Brian Houghton Hodgson
Date:
-[2]-[1863]
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.88-89, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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Asa Gray on democracy of plants.
Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.
British attitude towards America: not hate as Asa Gray thinks, but contempt.
Plants, safely arrived from Kew, fill new greenhouse.
Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.