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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 October 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 276
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Oct [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 276
Summary:
Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.
Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 37–42
Summary:
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 October 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 37-42
Summary:
Refers to ARW letters that Darwin had forwarded to Hooker. Criticises ARW for saying that Scientific men are afraid to say what they think.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
9 October 1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.152-153, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
10 October 1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.265, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 October 1865
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 277, 277b
Summary:
Darwin agrees with Hooker's comments about ARW in Hooker's letter of 6 Oct 1865. Hooker's letter he describes ARW as: "... not a man of large sympathies, nor very charitable I think, & is certainly awfully cold & dry at times; yet he is essentially large minded, & very able".
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 and 28 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 115: 277
Summary:
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
31 October 1865
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.85, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project