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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 May 1868
Source of text:
Wellcome Trust: MS.7798/1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 May 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 79-80
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 210–13
Summary:
Trip with Huxley was perfect.
At Torquay later he had a lecture on "Kent’s hole" from Joseph Pengelly.
George Bentham acknowledges himself unreservedly a convert to Darwinism. Many will still cling to a "rag of protection, but will eventually haul it down".
A. Murray’s later parts better than first [? Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Wallace’s paper shows great ability.
Disgusted with [Duke of Argyll’s] Reign of law.
His depression and exhaustion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20 May 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 68
Summary:
Encloses grass from locust dung sent from Natal. Asks for name of grass.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 210-13
Summary:
Hooker enquires what Darwin makes of ARW's paper on bird's nests and how he struck by ARW's great ability.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
20 May 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.109-110, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 May [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 62–4
Summary:
JDH too severe on Duke of Argyll.
Pities JDH on [BAAS] address [see 6099]; Huxley feels JDH will do well and will not pity him.
Thinks Huxley will give an excellent and original lecture on geographical distribution of birds.
Has been working hard on sexual selection and correspondence about it.
Mignonette is sterile with its own pollen but any two distinct plants are fertile together. It is utterly mysterious and not even Pangenesis will explain it.
On Lyell’s book [Principles, 10th ed.].
Wallace’s wonderful cleverness, but he is not cautious enough. CD differs from Wallace on birds’ nests and protection.
A. Murray’s miserable criticism of Wallace [J. Travel & Nat. Hist. 1 (1868): 137–45].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project